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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 327 - 10/22/2011
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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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October 22, 2011
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Interview with Richard Wiseman
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Jay Report from Italy, Faster Than Light Neutrinos, Reiki Doesn't Work, Ending Genital Cutting, Camping Prophesy Update
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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October 21, 1879
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Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
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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: Wisteria Pods Popping
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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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"How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals--anything or anyone--but never themselves."
- James Clavell, "SHOGUN"
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
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