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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 351 - 4/7/2012
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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 351 - April 07, 2012

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Interview with Gripp (Marshall Gillson)
This Day in Skepticism: World Health Day
News Items: Smart Sand, Enclothed Cognition, Death by Homeopathy, Small Scale, Rhino Horn
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
April 7     World Health Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Day

Segment:   News Items     
Smart Sand     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17603235
Enclothed Cognition     http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/clothes-and-self-perception.html?_r=2&ref=science
Death by Homeopathy     http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13310801/woman-sues-homeopath-over-sisters-cancer-death/
Small Scale     http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/measuring-yoctogram-scale-masses-with-carbon-nanotubes.ars?clicked=related_right
Rhino Horn     http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=g4wZbHe0

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: A Tesla coil

Segment:   Interview     
Interview with Grip aka Marshall Gillson     Glasseyeballs Head in the Cloud

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     Scientists have built a functioning quantum computer inside a diamond. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120321172208.htm
Item #2     A new study finds that hospitals that spend more money have a 20-30% reduction in overall mortality in emergency room treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-higher-spending-hospitals-deaths-emergency-patients.html
Item #3     A new analysis warns that a "Titanic" like shipping disaster is as likely today as it was 100 years ago. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120404125108.

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     "If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind." William Clifford
 
 
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