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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 228 - 12/2/2009
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
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Podcast
228
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December 02, 2009
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Interview with Steven Thoms
News Items: Age of Autism Scandal, Porkenstein, Fat Murder Hoax
Your Questions and E-mails: ClimateGate Feedback
Science or Fiction
Who's That Noisy
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question # 1 - ClimateGate
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ClimateGate Feedback
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Segment: Interview
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item # 1  Science
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Astronomers have discovered vast clouds of metallic atoms, specifically chromium (30 million solar masses) and manganese (8 million solar masses), in intergalactic space.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/astro-e2/news/intergalactic_metal.html
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Item # 2  Fiction
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New observations suggest that the globular clusters that swarm around the Milky Way’s galactic bulge each harbor a supermassive black hole at their center.
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Item # 3 Science
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Astronomers have described a new type of supernova – resulting from a 200 solar mass star, that took 70 days to reach peak brightness and exploded so powerfully that it did not leave behind a remnant to form a black hole.
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/12/02/superbright-supernova/
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Whos That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Kakapo
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
- Marie Curie
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