Episode #298
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week – sonic boom from entering meteor
Interview with Kenny Feder
- News Item: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=3039 Feder: http://www.anthropology.ccsu.edu/faculty/feder/Feder.html
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Researchers have successfully extracted the protein from a 600,000 year old mammoth. http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2011/research/elephant/
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Item #2
Science
Researchers find that greater short term evolutionary fitness does not always predict long term survival over competitors. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=119029&media_id=69255&org=NSF
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Item #3
Fiction
Astronomers announce the discovery of the most earth-like exoplanet discovered to date – orbiting just 2 million miles from a white dwarf star. http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/uw-astrophysicist-white-dwarfs-could-be-fertile-ground-for-other-earths
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient date, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have’ -Brian Caplan, The myth of the rational voter