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SGU Episode 953
October 14th 2023
953 white sands footprints.jpg

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in NM are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, upending what archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. [1]

SGU 952                      SGU 954

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

Guests

DF: Dan Friesen

JH: Jordan Holmes




American podcasters

Quote of the Week

Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, and the Arts provide an understanding of personal experience. They both are avatars of human creativity.

Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut

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Show Notes
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Introduction

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

Quickie with Bob: Solar Panels at Proxima Centauri (5:17)


News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

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

Oldest Evidence of Humans in Americas (8:50)


Addictive Foods (21:48)


Using CRISPR To Make Chickens Resistant (33:40)


Superheavy Elements and Ultradense Asteroids (43:37)


Prehistoric Solar Storms (54:22)


Who's That Noisy? (1:02:11)

Answer to previous Noisy:
Hand-cranked coffee grinder

New Noisy (1:05:16)

[creaking croaking with echo]

short_text_from_transcript

Announcements (1:05:49)

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups (1:06:31)

Email #1: Nobel Peace Prize

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Interview with Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes (1:08:33)

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Science or Fiction (1:41:09)

Item #1: Astronomers have spotted the first exoplanet collision, which happened in a system 1,800 light years away[8]
Item #2: Scientists have developed a new method of error correction in quantum computers that is 10 times as effective as previous methods, reaching fidelities of 0.999.[9]
Item #3: The NIH has announced a $150 million grant to develop a Digital Twin Brain – an open-source platform to virtually duplicate human brain function.[10]

Answer Item
Fiction Digital twin brain
Science Exoplanet collision
Science
Quantum computer correction
Host Result
Steve win
Rogue Guess
Jay
 Digital twin brain
Cara
 Digital twin brain
Bob
 Exoplanet collision

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

_Rogue_'s Response

_Rogue_'s Response

_Rogue_'s Response

Steve Explains Item #2

Steve Explains Item #3

Steve Explains Item #1

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:53:31)


Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience; Arts are a universal understanding of personal experience. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

 – Mae Jemison (1956-present), American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut 


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[11]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ Phys.org: Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas
  2. ↑ Universe Today: Will solar panels work at Proxima Centauri?
  3. ↑ Neurologica: Oldest Evidence of Humans In Americas
  4. ↑ ZME Science: What are the most addictive foods, according to science
  5. ↑ Nature Communications: Creating resistance to avian influenza infection through genome editing of the ANP32 gene family
  6. ↑ Springer: Beyond the periodic table: Superheavy elements and ultradense asteroids
  7. ↑ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: A radiocarbon spike at 14 300 cal yr BP in subfossil trees provides the impulse response function of the global carbon cycle during the Late Glacial
  8. ↑ University of Bristol: Researchers capture first-ever afterglow of huge planetary collision in outer space
  9. ↑ Nature: Erasure conversion in a high-fidelity Rydberg quantum simulator
  10. ↑ Intelligent Computing: The Digital Twin Brain: A Bridge between Biological and Artificial Intelligence
  11. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]
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