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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 252 - 5/12/2010
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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 252 - May 12, 2010

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Special Guest: Massimo Pigliucci
News Items: Nonsense on Stilts, Definition of Siphon, Neanderthal Interbreeding, Evolution in Alabama Politics, Science of Morality
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   News Items     
Nonsense on Stilts     New book by Massimo Pigliucci
Definition of Siphon     http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/may/10/dictionary-definition-siphon-wrong
Neanderthal Interbreeding     http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/07/neanderthal.human.genome/index.html
Evolution in Alabama Politics     http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Alabama_candidate_denounces_lie_that_he_believes_in_evolution.html
Science of Morality     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/a-science-of-morality_b_567185.html?ref=fb&src=spyperlink in the Show Notes

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Baba Ramdev

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     New research shows that while married men live longer than unmarried men, women do not gain this benefit from being married. http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/press/1813.htm
Item #2     The most extensive genetic analysis to date supports the conclusion that all life on earth descended from a single common ancestor. http://www.physorg.com/news192882557.html
Item #3     New observations indicate that much of the missing matter in the universe is not dark matter but rather a diffuse hot cloud of intergalactic gas made of normal (baryonic) matter. http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_051110.html

Segment:   Quote of the Week     
Quote of the Week     Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. - George Bernard Shaw
 
 
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