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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 277 - 11/3/2010
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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
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November 03, 2010
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Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss
News Items: Psychic Cat, 100 Year Starship Project, Cure for Common Cold, Life on the Moon, Alien Ballot Defeated
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Banana Ripening
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Pulsars from a globular cluster
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 - Banana Ripening
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Here is weird one. A co-worker of mine has an odd habit of laying bananas out over her desk. she tells me that this is because a banana will ripen faster if it is touching another banana.
now I’ve heard the old tale that you can ripen other fruit by putting a banana next to it, but i haven’t heard that you need to separate bananas from each other.
is there any validity to her claim or is she simply bananas?
Sean Dowling
Brisbane
PS. I won the additional tickets lottery and can go to TAMoz! prepare to be shaken by the hand, rouges.
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Segment: Interview
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them"
-Sir David Frederick Attenborough
Submitted by Tim from London
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