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== Quickie with Bob <small>()</small> ==
== Quickie with Bob <small>()</small> ==
* [link_URL TITLE]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes PUBLICATION: TITLE]</ref> Scientists Invent Flubber
* Scientists Invent Flubber: [https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/02/03/umass-new-material-energy UMass researchers create new material that can store and release 'enormous' amounts of energy]<ref>[https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/02/03/umass-new-material-energy WBUR: UMass researchers create new material that can store and release 'enormous' amounts of energy]</ref>  


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* [https://news.mit.edu/2022/deploying-machine-learning-improve-mental-health-rosalind-picard-0126 Deploying machine learning to improve mental health]<ref>[https://news.mit.edu/2022/deploying-machine-learning-improve-mental-health-rosalind-picard-0126 MIT News: Deploying machine learning to improve mental health]</ref>
   
   
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* [https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-tardigrades-tough-space-dehydration Living mysteries: Why teeny-weeny tardigrades are tough as nails]<ref>[https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-tardigrades-tough-space-dehydration ScienceNews for Students: Living mysteries: Why teeny-weeny tardigrades are tough as nails]</ref>


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=== DNA Microfossils <small>()</small> ===
* [link_URL TITLE]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes PUBLICATION: TITLE]</ref>
* [https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dna-microfossils-and-the-woolly-mammoth/ DNA Microfossils and the Woolly Mammoth]<ref>[https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dna-microfossils-and-the-woolly-mammoth/ Neurologica: DNA Microfossils and the Woolly Mammoth]</ref>


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=== Belief in the Paranormal and Credibility <small>()</small> ===
* [link_URL TITLE]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes PUBLICATION: TITLE]</ref>
* [https://religiondispatches.org/do-stormy-daniels-beliefs-in-the-paranormal-make-her-unfit-to-testify-in-lawsuit-against-her-former-attorney/ Do Stormy Daniels' beliefs in the paranormal make her unfit to testify in lawsuit against her former attorney?]<ref>[https://religiondispatches.org/do-stormy-daniels-beliefs-in-the-paranormal-make-her-unfit-to-testify-in-lawsuit-against-her-former-attorney/ Religion Dispatches: Do Stormy Daniels' beliefs in the paranormal make her unfit to testify in lawsuit against her former attorney?]</ref>


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=== Tesla Robots <small>()</small> ===
* [link_URL TITLE]<ref>[url_from_news_item_show_notes PUBLICATION: TITLE]</ref>
* [https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302084-can-elon-musk-and-tesla-really-build-a-humanoid-robot-in-2022/ Can Elon Musk and Tesla really build a humanoid robot in 2022?]<ref>[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302084-can-elon-musk-and-tesla-really-build-a-humanoid-robot-in-2022/ NewScientist: Can Elon Musk and Tesla really build a humanoid robot in 2022?]</ref>


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<blockquote>Officials, educators, media personalities, and opinion makers must do everything they can to educate the public, assuage people’s fears, and show that the pandemic is being handled fairly and rationally. Lives and people's well-being are at stake, for years to come.<br>– {{w|Nidhal Guessoum}}, Algerian astrophysicist</blockquote>


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SGU Episode 865
February 5th 2022
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SGU 864                      SGU 866

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella


Quote of the Week

Officials, educators, media personalities, and opinion makers must do everything they can to educate the public, assuage people’s fears, and show that the pandemic is being handled fairly and rationally. Lives and people's well-being are at stake, for years to come.

Nidhal Guessoum, Algerian astrophysicist

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Introduction

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

COVID-19 Update ()

Quickie with Bob ()

News Items

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B:

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J:

E:

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

Machine Learning and Mental Health ()

Hardy Tardigrades ()

DNA Microfossils ()

Belief in the Paranormal and Credibility ()

Tesla Robots ()

Who's That Noisy? ()


New Noisy ()

[_short_vague_description_of_Noisy]

short_text_from_transcript

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

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Question_Email_Correction #1: Joe Rogan and Spotify ()

Science or Fiction ()

Answer Item
Fiction Kevlar-strong cotton
Science Super-strong 2D polymer
Science
Biological “duct tape”
Host Result
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Rogue Guess

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

Item #1: For the first time scientists have been able to create a two-dimensional polymeric material, that is six times stronger than bullet-proof glass, and twice as strong as steel at one-sixth the density.[7]
Item #2: MIT engineers have created a biological “duct tape” that can be applied to internal organs, adhering in seconds and lasting for months.[8]
Item #3: Scientists have engineered a cultivar of cotton that creates fibers with almost the tensile strength of Kevlar.[9]


_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

_Host_ Explains Item #_n_

_Host_ Explains Item #_n_

_Host_ Explains Item #_n_

_Host_ Explains Item #_n_

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

Officials, educators, media personalities, and opinion makers must do everything they can to educate the public, assuage people’s fears, and show that the pandemic is being handled fairly and rationally. Lives and people's well-being are at stake, for years to come.
– Nidhal Guessoum, Algerian astrophysicist

Signoff/Announcements ()

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[10]
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Notes

References

  1. ↑ WBUR: UMass researchers create new material that can store and release 'enormous' amounts of energy
  2. ↑ MIT News: Deploying machine learning to improve mental health
  3. ↑ ScienceNews for Students: Living mysteries: Why teeny-weeny tardigrades are tough as nails
  4. ↑ Neurologica: DNA Microfossils and the Woolly Mammoth
  5. ↑ Religion Dispatches: Do Stormy Daniels' beliefs in the paranormal make her unfit to testify in lawsuit against her former attorney?
  6. ↑ NewScientist: Can Elon Musk and Tesla really build a humanoid robot in 2022?
  7. ↑ Nature: Irreversible synthesis of an ultrastrong two-dimensional polymeric material
  8. ↑ Science Translational Medicine: An off-the-shelf bioadhesive patch for suture-less repair of gastrointestinal defects
  9. ↑ [url_from_SoF_show_notes PUBLICATION: unable to find; show notes page has wrong link]
  10. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]

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