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== Special Segment: Families, Vaccines, and Thanksgiving <small>()</small> ==  
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== News Items ==
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=== Asteroid May Be Fragment of the Moon <small>()</small> ===
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=== Loss Aversion <small>()</small> ===
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=== Bank Robber Identified After 52 years <small>()</small> ===
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* [link_URL title]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]</ref>


=== News_Item_5 <small>()</small> ===
=== Alex Jones Liable in Sandy Hook Hoax Case <small>()</small> ===
* [link_URL title]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]</ref>
 
=== SpinLaunch <small>()</small> ===
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=== Question_Email_Correction #2: _brief_description_ <small>()</small> ===  


== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==
== Science or Fiction <small>(1:08:00)</small> ==
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=== Evan's Response ===
 
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SGU Episode 855
November 27th 2021
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SGU 854                      SGU 856

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Guest

GH: George Grab, American musician & podcaster

Quote of the Week

The more connections you can make across an ever wider and more disparate range of knowledge, the more deeply you will understand something. Search engines and videogames do not provide that facility; nothing does, other than your own brain.

Susan A. Greenfield, English scientist and member of the House of Lords

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Show Notes
Forum Discussion

Introduction

Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

Special Segment: Families, Vaccines, and Thanksgiving (4:19)

News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

(laughs) (laughter) (applause) [inaudible]

Russia Shoots Down Satellite ()

  • [link_URL title][1]

Sub_section_1 ()

Asteroid May Be Fragment of the Moon ()

  • [link_URL title][2]

Loss Aversion ()

  • [link_URL title][3]

Bank Robber Identified After 52 years ()

  • [link_URL title][4]

Alex Jones Liable in Sandy Hook Hoax Case ()

  • [link_URL title][5]

SpinLaunch ()

  • [link_URL title][6]

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

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Question_Email_Correction #1: _brief_description_ ()

Question_Email_Correction #2: _brief_description_ ()

Science or Fiction (1:08:00)

Answer Item
Fiction Obscure laws
Science Ancient civilization
Science
Ghost towns
Science
Stegosaurus fossil
Host Result
Steve win
Rogue Guess
Bob
 Ancient civilization
Evan
 Obscure laws
Jay
 Obscure laws
Cara
 Ancient civilization
George
 Ancient civilization

Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Theme: Colorado

Item #1: Evidence for the earliest occupation of the Colorado area by people go back 11,000 years, although the most famous ancient civilization of Mesa Verde is only about 700 years old.[7]
Item #2: Colorado is home to over 1,500 ghost towns, but only about 640 have visible physical remains.[8]
Item #3: Colorado is famous for having strange outdated laws on the books, such as it being illegal to drive a black car on Sunday or to loan your neighbor a vacuum cleaner.[9][10]
Item #4: Bonus item Steve didn't use: Although the Stegosaurus and the Apatosaurus were discovered near Morrison, Colorado, the first Stegosaurus skeleton now resides in New Haven, CT, in the Peabody Museum.[11]

Bob's Response

Evan's Response

Jay's Response

Cara's Response

George's Response

Audience's Response

Steve Explains Item #2

Steve Explains Item #1

Steve Explains Item #3

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:20:14)

The more connections you can make across an ever wider and more disparate range of knowledge, the more deeply you will understand something. Search engines and videogames do not provide that facility; nothing does, other than your own brain
– Susan A. Greenfield, English scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords

Signoff/Announcements (1:22:57)

S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

S: Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information, visit us at theskepticsguide.org. Send your questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. And, if you would like to support the show and all the work that we do, go to patreon.com/SkepticsGuide and consider becoming a patron and becoming part of the SGU community. Our listeners and supporters are what make SGU possible.

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Today I Learned

  • Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[12]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

Notes

References

  1. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  2. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  3. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  4. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  5. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  6. ↑ [url_from_news_item_show_notes publication: title]
  7. ↑ Uncover Colorado: The Original Coloradans
  8. ↑ Wikipedia: List of ghost towns in Colorado
  9. ↑ The Denver Channel: Driving You Crazy: Can you really not drive a black car on Sunday in Denver?
  10. ↑ The Denver Channel: 7 crazy Colorado laws you don't want to be caught breaking
  11. ↑ KUSA: The world’s first Stegosaurus fossil was found in this Colorado town
  12. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]

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