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SGU Episode 971
February 17th 2024
971 FCC.jpeg

"The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study has looked into various collider designs, envisaging a research infrastructure housed within a 100km underground tunnel. This ambitious project is promising a physics program that will take high energy research into the next century." [1]

SGU 970                      SGU 972

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Quote of the Week

Starving brains can hallucinate, but even well-fed minds can convince themselves they feel something that simply isn't there.

Jonathan Jarry, Canadian science communicator

Links
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Show Notes
Forum Discussion

Introduction, Pennsylvania and Lent

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


George's concert; D&D (3:40)

Quickie with Bob: Metalenses (10:05)


News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

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

Flow Batteries (12:17)


Green Roofs (31:48)



LEGO MRI Scanner (42:16)





The LEGO Foundation has announced it will donate 600 LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals worldwide to help children cope with the uncertainty of having a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan. (Click/tap image for article.) [7]

Video: We're bringing play to hospitals with LEGO® MRI scanners

Mayo Clinic and Reiki (49:25)

  • Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki[9]
     (Note: Mayo Clinic Press quickly took down the article "My journey from energy work skeptic to Reiki practitioner", even before it could be archived online)


The Circular Collider (1:03:44)


B:...as in meatballs...


Who's That Noisy? (1:18:34)

Answer to previous Noisy:
Adobe Podcast AI Speech Enhancer's attempt to make speech from intro to 1928 recording of Stack O' Lee Blues by Mississippi John Hurt

New Noisy (1:26:13)

[whopping, laser-like shots/wobbling sounds]

J:...what this week's Noisy is

Announcements (1:26:54)

...thousandth episode

Name That Logical Fallacy (1:30:24)

  • Gambler's Fallacy & Regression to the Mean

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Science or Fiction (1:36:55)

Item #1: A recent study shows that older adults are more vulnerable to first impressions of trustworthiness even in the face of contradictory evidence.[10]
Item #2: A machine learning analysis correlating road features with accident frequency finds that the most predictive variable for high crash risk is the presence of distracting billboards and other advertisements.[11]
Item #3: Researchers find that short and simple corrective statements on social media help readers identify false information.[12]

Answer Item
Fiction Billboards = highest crash risk
Science Elderly more vulnerable
Science
Corrective statements
Host Result
Steve clever
Rogue Guess
Evan
 Corrective statements
Bob
 Billboards = highest crash risk
Jay
 Elderly more vulnerable
George
 Billboards = highest crash risk

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

Evan's Response

Bob's Response

Jay's Response

George's Response

Steve Explains Item #1

Steve Explains Item #2

Steve Explains Item #3

Trusting the data in Bethlehem, PA (1:54:34)

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:59:06)

Starving brains can hallucinate, but even well-fed minds can convince themselves they can feel something which simply isn't there.

 – Jonathan Jarry, Canadian science communicator, McGill University Office for Science and Society 


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[13]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Universe Today: CERN Wants to Build an Enormous New Atom Smasher: the Future Circular Collider
  2. ↑ Chemical & Engineering News: Engineers make the largest metalens ever
  3. ↑ Neurologica: Flow Batteries – Now With Nanofluids
  4. ↑ University of New South Wales: Modeling shows green roofs can cool cities and save energy
  5. ↑ Nature Cities: Green roofs save energy in cities and fight regional climate change
  6. ↑ My Modern Met: LEGO MRI Scanner Sets Are Donated to Hospitals To Help Children Cope With These Procedures
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 LEGO: The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally
  8. ↑ Hearing Like Me: LEGO adds minifigure with a hearing aid
  9. ↑ Science-Based Medicine: Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki
  10. ↑ Scientific Reports: Age-group differences in trust-related decision-making and learning
  11. ↑ Transportation Research Record: Feature Engineering and Decision Trees for Predicting High Crash-Risk Locations Using Roadway Indicators
  12. ↑ Communications Psychology: Social corrections act as a double-edged sword by reducing the perceived accuracy of false and real news in the UK, Germany, and Italy
  13. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]
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