Episode #988

Episode #988

News Items

• Ultraprocessed Foods
• Artemis Space Suits
• Interstellar Clouds
• Prebiotic Soda
• Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation

Who's That Noisy

• Hello fellow skeptics. I have been listening to the SGU for almost a decade now and really enjoy and appreciate what you guys are doing. Critical Thinking is needed NOW MORE THAN EVER. To my comment: Have you guys discussed the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon before? Apparently it is a frequency illusion where when you hear about something it all of a sudden appears more frequently. ie: Learning about a new person and all of a sudden the persons name appears everywhere. I have a sense that it is a cognitive bias but would like to especially hear Steve and Cara’s take on the subject (the neurologist and psychologist respectively) Adrian Tello Texas

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Researchers unveiled a new computer modeling system of a living cell that is 1 million times faster than existing simulations. https://news.ku.edu/news/article/researchers-in-us-ukraine-simulate-cell-activity-at-breathtaking-timescales

• Item #2 Fiction

  For the first time physicists report they have been able to isolate true magnetic monopoles.https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.226705

• Item #3 Science

  NASA recently successfully tested their new communications link to the ISS, which was able to transmit data up and down at 1.2 gigabits per second. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1048045

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.’ Ada Lovelace