SGU Episode 222

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

LHC Future Attack

 * http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568528,00.html

Magnetic and Copper Bracelets

 * http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2215

Balloon Boy

 * Balloon Boy

Lunar Plume Update

 * http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17996-elusive-lunar-plume-caught-on-camera-after-all.html

Giant Spider Discovered

 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8316720.stm

Special Report

 * Rebecca gives us an update on her tour of Asia.

Interview with James Randi

 * James Randi is the founder and chairman of the board of the James Randi Educational Foundation: www.randi.org. He is the author of numerous books, including Flim-Flam and the Mask of Nostradamus, and a world famous and respected skeptic.

Science or Fiction
Item # 1: New research finds that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing schizophrenia, which may result from the effects of insulin on the brain. Item # 2: Researchers found the testosterone levels of men who voted for John McCain or Robert Barr in the 2009 presidential election dropped significantly after hearing the results of the election. Item # 3: Geologists have identified an alternate candidate crater for the K-T extinction event off the coast of India, and if confirmed would have resulted from a meteor four times as large as the one that caused the Yucatan crater.

Who's That Noisy

 * Answer to last week: Emperor Penguin

Quote of the Week
"'Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.' -Christopher Hitchens"