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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 381 - 11/3/2012
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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
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November 03, 2012
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Live From CSICon 2012
This Day in Skepticism: Sputnik 2
In Memorium: Paul Kurtz and Leon Jaroff
News Items: Big Bang Conference, Italian Earthquake Scientists Convicted, Whale Makes Human Sounds, PANDAS Controversy, Reporting Ghost Stories
Live Q&A
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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November 3, 1957
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Sputnik 2 launched
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Segment: In Memorium
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Paul Kurtz
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1925-2012
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Leon Jaroff
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1926-2012
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Live Q&A
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Live Q&A
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Questions from the CSICon audience
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item #1  Fiction
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A new study finds that astronauts who spent more than one month in microgravity have a 35% increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Item #2  Science
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Scientists have discovered the first feathered dinosaur in the western hemisphere, and also adds another dinosaur group known to have feathers.
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Item #3 Science
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Researchers find that, at the molecular level, evolutionary changes can be highly predictable.
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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"Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality."
- Paul Kurtz
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