SGU Episode 193

Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

Controlling Robots with the Mind

 * http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=508

Giant Protozoans

 * http://www.livescience.com/animals/090328-nhm-gromia-sphaerica.html

More Jenny McCarthy Nonsense

 * http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090401/hl_time/08599188871800

Interview with Paul Murray

 * Vice President, Texas Citizens for Science http://www.texscience.org/ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13930-16-of-us-science-teachers-are-creationists.html

Science or Fiction
Item # 1: Researchers published the results of their trial showing that treating the kidney with radio waves can significantly reduce high blood pressure. Item # 2: A new study suggests that drinking very hot tea increases the risk of breast cancer in women. Item # 3: American researchers are developing a system that fights mosquitoes by targeting and shooting them with lasers.

Who's That Noisy

 * Answer to last week - an MRI scanner

Quote of the Week
"I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. - Samuel Johnson"