Episode #346
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Peter Sagal
Interview with Gordon Maupin
- Topic: Fracking Gordon T. Maupin Executive Director The Wilderness Center, Inc.
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
An analysis of Triceratops and Torosaurus skulls indicates that they were indeed two separate species, not young and adult forms of one species as some paleontologists have suggested. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/plos-tcc022712.php
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Item #2
Fiction
A new analysis concludes that T. rex had the strongest bite of any animal to have ever lived on the Earth. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17159086
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Item #3
Science
A new species of dinosaur, Spinops, a cousin to Triceratops, was recently described and named in the literature – 95 years after the fossils were first discovered. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206115051.htm
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: ‘We do not understand because we cannot find the cause,’ we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.’ -French author Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, from his short horror story ‘Le Horla’