Episode #347
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: First animals in space
Interview with Scott Sigler
- scottsigler.com
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
A new study finds that married patients, both male and female, are more than three times more likely to survive for three months following coronary bypass surgery than are single patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-marriage-powerful-heart-drug-short.html
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Item #2
Fiction
A new analysis supports the theory that fashion trends are driven primarily by the desire to signal social status. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0032541
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Item #3
Science
An engineering team has created an entirely organic transistor out of human proteins. http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16121
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown– only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.’ Captain James Tiberius Kirk