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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 294 - 3/2/2011
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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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Podcast
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March 02, 2011
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Interview with Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
This Day in Skepticism: Limelight
News Items: Predicting Earthquakes, Growing Fuel, Neutron Star Superflluidity, Heidi Follow up
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Information Follow up, 10,000 Years in the Future
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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March 5, 1830
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limelight as a form of lighting was presented before scientists at the Tower of London, in a trial with two other lamp designs. <http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/greatscots.html#drummond>Invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816, <http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/engines/epi1268.htm>limelight used jets of oxygen to assist heating lime to incandescence. More brilliant light was formed than by a flame alone. Limelight was adopted in lighthouses and for theatre stages. However, because it required constant tending, it was willingly superceded by newer inventions.
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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: Maxwell Smart's shoe phone
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 - Lost Information follow up
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Follow up discussion on destroying vs losing information
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Question #2 - 10,000 Years in the Future
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With you guys being forward thinkers and having imaginative and open minds, I would like to know what your opinions are on what the world e.g human society and basically(or not) everything in general will be/look like in 10,000 years. Will we have destroyed ourselves? split into different sub-species? be totally dependent on technology? I ask this because so often you hear about future advances/problems in the next 20 or 30 years, running out of oil etc. I would like to know ultimately, what you guys think some of our(society's) long term problems/achievements might be? Love your show btw.
Thanks for reading
Teenager with way too much time on hands :)
Isaac Waby
GB
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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: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Elliot
"God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs."
- Robert Quillen
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