Episode #415
News Items
Who's That Noisy
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Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Researchers at MIT have developed a transistor that is switched by a single photon. http://www.nature.com/news/light-flips-transistor-switch-1.13178
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Item #2
Science
Geologists have found evidence for a new subduction zone forming near Portugal which may indicate the beginning of the next phase of continental movements in which Europe will move towards North America. http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2013/06/05/G34100.1
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Item #3
Fiction
A new study of whole body vibration therapy finds that it produced significant weight loss in obese subjects, who lost on average 10% of their body mass in 12 weeks. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130617110929.htm
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth,” —Robert Royar (1994) paraphrasing Frank Zappa’s (1979) anadiplosis in the song ‘Packard Goose’