SGU Episode 408
|
This episode needs: transcription, links, 'Today I Learned' list, categories, segment redirects. Please help out by contributing! |
How to Contribute |
| SGU Episode 408 |
|---|
| 11th May 2013 |
 |
| (brief caption for the episode icon) |
| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
R: Rebecca Watson |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
| Guest |
DM: Don McLeroy |
| Quote of the Week |
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price—that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It’s about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words—'I might be wrong.' |
| Links |
| Download Podcast |
| Show Notes |
| Forum Discussion |
Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
This Day in Skepticism (00:47)
- May 11, 1960: FDA announced its approval of the use of Enovid, the first commercial oral contraceptive.
News Items
Sylvia Browne Wrong Again (04:02)
Cosmic Rays and Lightning (13:12)
- Phys.org: Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
Cicadas Return (18:20)
- Associated Press: East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas
Who's That Noisy? (28:10)
- Answer to last week: Alexander Graham Bell
Interview with Don McLeroy (32:26)
Science or Fiction (1:04:41)
Item #1: A new study finds that men who marry younger women are less intelligent, less attractive, and less wealthy than men who marry women closer in age. Item #2: Researchers have developed an intelligent nano-network drug release system that can effectively control blood sugar in diabetics for one week from a single injection. And item #3: New evidence suggests that toothbrushes are a major source of outbreaks of strep throat and other respiratory infections.
Announcements (1:19:56)
Rebecca at Women in Atheism conference
Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:20:26)
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price—that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It’s about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words—'I might be wrong.'
J: David Brin!
S: The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information on this and other episodes, please visit our website at theskepticsguide.org, where you will find the show notes as well as links to our blogs, videos, online forum, and other content. You can send us feedback or questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. Also, please consider supporting the SGU by visiting the store page on our website, where you will find merchandise, premium content, and subscription information. Our listeners are what make SGU possible.
References
|
|
|