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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 370 - 8/18/2012
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Podcast 370 - August 18, 2012

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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Eggs and Atherosclerosis, Hacking the Rover, The Sneeze, Google Pyramids, Occ Update
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Asymmetrical Screw
Science or Fiction



Segment:   This Day in Skepticism     
August 18, 1986      Seventy-two Nobel Prize-winning scientists filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging as unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to also teach “creation-science.”

Segment:   News Items     
Eggs and Atherosclerosis     http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/eggs-and-atherosclerosis/
Hacking the Rover     http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/269564/scitech/technology/anonymous-hackers-may-be-targeting-mars-rover-says-security-firm
The Sneeze     http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120814-why-do-we-sneeze-health-science-sinusitis/
Google Pyramids     http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/14/long-lost-egyptian-pyramids-found-on-google-earth/
Occ Update     http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sgu/occ-the-skeptical-caveman-a-new-webseries

Segment:   Who's That Noisy     
Who's That Noisy     Answer to last week: Alan Shepard

Segment:   Questions and Emails     
Question #1: Screwed     Critical Thinking and the Asymmetrical Apple Screw I thought this was kind of interesting... http://day4.se/how-we-screwed-almost-the-whole-apple-community/ Truckee Lynch San Francisco

Segment:   Science or Fiction     [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
Item #1     An instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected helium in the Moon's atmosphere. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/helium-detected.html
Item #2     A recent lost letter study, in which stamped and addressed letters are dropped on the street and their fate recorded, demonstrates that wealthier neighborhoods are less altruistic. http://phys.org/news/2012-08-lost-letter-wealthy-london-neighborhoods.html
Item #3     Researchers have discovered the code by which the retina communicates to the brain, leading to a retinal prosthesis that has restored near normal vision to a blind mouse. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120814213326.htm

Segment:   Skeptical Quote of the Week     
Skeptical Quote of the Week     “For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.” - Benjamin Franklin
 
 
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