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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 289 - 1/26/2011
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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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January 26, 2011
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News Items: Jack LaLanne dies at 96, Cold Fusion Again, The Cochrane Review of Statins, Astrologists Angered, More on Education
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Alien DNA
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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Karl Benz Applies for Patent
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January 29, 1886, Karl Benz applied for a patent for his Benz Patent Motorwagen, a three-wheeler vehicle with a gasoline engine. This patent specification, DRP-37435, is recognized today as the birth certificate of the internal-combustion, gasoline-powered automobile. The two-stroke engine had four horizontally-opposed pistons. He had finished the work on the vehicle the previous month, 31 Jan 1885. Sales to the public began in July.
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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: Steward Lee
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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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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"Anecdotal evidence leads us to conclusions that we wish to be true, not conclusions that actually are true."
- Barry Beyerstein
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