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Segment: Best and Worst of 2010
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Categories
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Best Episode
Best Guest/Interview
Funniest moment
Best Who's That Noisy?
Best Quote
Best Science news story of the year
Most outrageous illogical statement or pseudoscientific claim
Jackass of the Year
Skeptic of the Year
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Segment: In Memoriam
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In Memoriam 2010
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Denis Dutton
Martin Gardner
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Segment: SGU Stats
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SGU Stats
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Update on SGU listeners
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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: Dani Darling
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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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Researchers find that non-coding sequences of DNA may be responsible for more variation among individuals than genes.
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Item #2 Science
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An extensive genetic analysis indicates that modern dogs first evolved in the Middle East, not Asia, as was previously thought.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317144640.htm
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Item #3  Fiction
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Geologists have determined that the earth was not completely frozen for most of its early history, despite lower levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, because of relatively increased output from the sun.
http://www.physorg.com/news189258390.html
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations. It takes effort to rise above this tendency, to step back from our beliefs and our emotional connection to conclusions and focus on the process. The process (i.e science, logic, and intellectual rigor) has to be more important than the belief.
—Steven Novella
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