Episode #494
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Evan announces the winner of 2014
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Scientists report the results of the first mapping of a genome of a Clovis skeleton, finding that they possess Asian ancestry but from a side branch unrelated to present-day Native American populations. http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/02/americas-only-clovis-skeleton-had-its-genome-mapped/
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Item #2
Science
Astronomers report the first discovery of a possible exomoon. http://www.nature.com/news/first-possible-exomoon-spotted-1.14430
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Item #3
Science
New research finds that online gaming largely expands and supplements players social lives, and does not replace or diminish it. https://news.ncsu.edu/2014/03/wms-taylor-gamelife2014/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”- Stanley Kubrick