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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 353 - 4/21/2012
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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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April 21, 2012
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This Day in Skepticism: The Surgeons Photo
News Items: Life on Mars, Indian Skeptic Charged with Blasphemy, Multitasking, Monkeys Recognize Words, Cosmic Superwinds
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Titanic Correction, Advanced Dinosaurs
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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April 21, 1934
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Surgeon's Photo of the Loch Ness Monster published
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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: Ice chimes
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Segment: Questions and Emails
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Question #1 - Titanic Correction
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Need to be careful believing the official position of white star lines. The Issue relates to PR using language to convey a message to the public that was generally believed before the event.:
From snopes:
Claim: The Titanic was never advertised using the word "unsinkable." : FALSE
...However, claiming (as White Star did) that although others may have used the word, White Star itself did not describe the Titanicas "unsinkable" in its advertising is a bit disingenuous. The February 1993 issue of The Titanic Commutator unearthed a White Star promotional flyer for the Olympic and Titanic that claimed "as far as it is possible to do, these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable."
I never trust advertising to be fact ;)
Nigel Underhill
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Advanced Dinosaurs
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Just wondering if you guys had stumbled upon this little gem
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/04/weekend-feature-intelligent-advanced-versions-of-earths-dinosaurs-may-have-evolved-elsewhere-in-univ.html
Good example of horrendous journalism.
Eric Rosinski
Arkansas
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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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"Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts."
--Leo Rosten
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