Episode #373
News Items
- Blue Moon Lunacy
- Bigfoot News
- Negative Replication of Psi
- Baldness Cure
- Little Mass from Higgs
- UFO Over Illuminati Castle
Interview with Billy West
- Talented voice actor Billy West, who does the voices of Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Renn and Stimpy, and other.
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists have discovered Western Scrub Jays performing a funeral-like behavior when they discover one of their members has died. http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/09/06/107211/western_scrub_jays_found_to_hold_funerals_for_fellow_jays?category=science
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Item #2
Science
A recent study finds that adults are more likely to accept a supernatural explanation than children. http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/09/07/Adults-like-supernatural-explanations/UPI-21651347074939/
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Item #3
Fiction
Researchers find that the shape of the glass affects how drunk alcohol-drinkers become. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57504579-10391704/beer-drinkers-speed-tied-to-shape-of-glass/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.’ - Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620