| |
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 314 - 7/20/2011
|
|
|
|
|
<<< Back to Podcast Archive
|
|
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.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
|
Podcast
314
-
July 20, 2011
|
Live from TAM9
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Comet Elenin, Forces of Darkness, Science Proves the Bible (Not), Last Shuttle Launch, Pastafarian Headgear, Organic Water, Graphene Water Battery, Youngest Dinosaur Fossil
Live Q&A: Skeptical Wins, 24 Hour Live SGU Show, Reconciling Faith and Skepticism, Craniosacral Therapy, Favorite Science Jokes, Sam Harris, How SGU Started
Science or Fiction
|
|
|
|
Segment: This Day in Skepticism
|
|
July 23, 1995
|
Comet Hale-Bopp
|
|
Segment: News Items
|
|
|
Segment: Live Q&A
|
|
Question #1
|
Skeptical Wins
|
|
Question #2
|
24 Hour SGU show
|
|
Question #3
|
Reconciling Faith and Skepticism
|
|
Question #4
|
Cranio-sacral Therapy
|
|
Question #5
|
Favorite Science Jokes
|
|
Question #6
|
Sam Harris
|
|
Question #7
|
How SGU Started
|
|
Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
|
Item #1  Science
|
New research indicates that access to information via the internet, such as through Google, decreases people’s ability to recall information.
|
Item #2  Fiction
|
The Wildlife Conservation Society has recently declared that the snow leopard is now likely extinct in the wild.
|
|
Item #3 Science
|
Models of the orbits of the large asteroids Ceres and Vesta indicate that Earth’s climate cannot be traced back more than 60 million years.
|
|
Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
|
|
Skeptical Quote of the Week
|
"Science is the best thing that humanity has ever come up with. And if it isn't, then science will fix it."
- Bill Nye
|
|
|
|
|
|