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SGU Episode 925
April 1st 2023
925 Mammoth Meatball.jpg

From the article in The Guardian:[1]
"A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis."

SGU 924                      SGU 926

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Guest

BL: Blake Lemoine, software engineer

Quote of the Week

The best science communication invites you to consider the complexity of the world, and the worst invites you to ignore the complexity.

Michael Hobbes, journalist & podcaster

Links
Download Podcast
Show Notes
Forum Discussion

Introduction, Steve's senate committee hearing

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

Quickie with Steve (8:08)

  • [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][2]


Quick News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

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

Mammoth Meatball (10:49)

Lunar Ice (17:03)


First Blitzar Observed (19:15)


England Allows Gene-Edited Crops (27:35)


Who's That Noisy? (31:24)

Answer to previous Noisy:
First recorded sound

New Noisy (35:21)

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short_text_from_transcript

Announcements (36:00)

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Interview with Blake Lemoine (40:05)

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Science or Fiction (1:33:09)

Item #1: A large survey of life on Earth finds that total biomass remains fairly consistent (within one order of magnitude) across the entire range of body size for all living things.[7]
Item #2: Researchers find that plants under stress emit recordable sound, about as loud as a normal speaking voice.[8]
Item #3: Researchers created intracellular sensors that use nanodiamond quantum sensing.[9]

Answer Item
Fiction Total biomass consistent
Science Plants emit sound
Science
Intracellular sensors
Host Result
Steve swept
Rogue Guess
Bob
 Total biomass consistent
Cara
 Total biomass consistent
Evan
 Total biomass consistent
Jay
 Total biomass consistent

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

Bob's Response

Cara's Response

Evan's Response

Jay's Response

Steve Explains Item #3

Steve Explains Item #2

Steve Explains Item #1

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:44:45)


The best science communication invites you to consider the complexity of the world, and the worst invites you to ignore the complexity.

 – Michael Hobbes, journalist & podcaster 


Signoff

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]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Guardian: Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
  2. ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  3. ↑ CNN: Water is trapped in glass beads on the moon’s surface, lunar samples show
  4. ↑ Ars Technica: Did we already observe our first “blitzar”?
  5. ↑ Neurologica: England Allows Gene-Edited Crops
  6. ↑ Business Standard: Google fires employee who said its conversation AI is sentient, has feeling
  7. ↑ PLOS One: The sizes of life
  8. ↑ Cell: Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
  9. ↑ Optica: Researchers use tiny diamonds to create intracellular sensors
  10. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]
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