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== Introduction ==<br />
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''<br />
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== Forgotten Superheroes of Science <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Caroline Herschel: Astronomer who was the first woman to be paid for scientific work<br />
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== News Items ==<br />
=== More Free-Energy <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/steorn-is-now-selling-free-energy-products/<br />
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=== Storing Nuclear Waste <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.popsci.com/storing-nuclear-waste-in-salt-deposits-isnt-as-secure-as-youd-think<br />
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=== Gene Editing Ethics <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/gene-editing-where-medical-dreams-and-ethical-nightmares-collide/article27637335/<br />
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== Who's That Noisy <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Answer to last week: http://femurdesign.com/theremin/<br />
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== Questions and Emails ==<br />
=== Question #1: Frame Dragging <small>()</small> ===<br />
<blockquote>What is frame dragging?</blockquote><br />
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== Dumbest Thing of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
* http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/12/08/what-removing-thimerosal-from-vaccines-caused-the-autism-epidemic/<br />
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== Interview with Michael Shermer <small>()</small> ==<br />
* http://www.michaelshermer.com/<br />
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== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151209135754.htm Item #1]: A new study finds that increasing the alcohol tax is Maryland was followed by a decrease in the incidence of gonorrhea.<br />
[http://phys.org/news/2015-12-food-pigs-vast-swathes-threatened.html Item #2]: A paper published in Applied Energy shows that storing energy in metal powder is a feasible alternative to fossil fuels. https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/could-metal-particles-be-clean-fuel-future-257172<br />
Item #3: New research finds that feeding pigs human food waste, or swill, is partially responsible for the recent swine flu epidemic.<br />
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== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>'It sometimes seems to me that we are all afflicted with an urge and have a longing for the impossible. The reality around is too common, too dull, too ordinary for us. We hanker after the unnatural, the supernatural, that which does not exist… We long for a miracle!' -M.C. Escher</blockquote><br />
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