Ep 142: Science... sort of - Running from the Truth

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2012

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Lousiana wants to implement vouchers to send kids to private schools. Problem is some of these schools teach Creationsist science and math. And it seems the Loch Ness Monster is their ace in the hole to disprove evolution. So there's that...

00:25:07 - Drinks dull the pain of bad science. Ryan has a merlot with a marshmallow. It's a think he's been meaning to try. And Kelly kicks back a Cabernet Sauvignon, which apparently is an old favorite for her. Who knew? Jacob has a Bold City Brewery's Lamp Post Ale. He claims it's only OK, but he certainly didn't take long to finish it.

00:31:46 - Ryan couldn't wait any longer so this week's Trailer Trash Talk gets excited over the conclusion of Nolan's Batman trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises.

00:45:51 - Everybody knows that cheetahs can outrun greyhounds, but how? A new paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology explores the distinctions by putting them both on a track. SCIENCE!

01:06:10 - PalePOWs are a lot like cheetahs, easy to tame but hard to catch. Kelly has an e-mail from Elio asking why exactly Jeff Goldblum is in Jurassic Park, other than showing off his "sensual chest." Jacob has an e-mail from Ben H. who, after reading James Gleik's Chaos and more, has some in-depth questions about chaos, computation, and other heady math stuff. Plus some fractals. Recurring donor Abigail A. sends along a belated missive explaining why as an artist she enjoys the show (as well as the podcast Dame is a Four Letter Word by listener Laurin P.) and her own efforts to spread the love of phenology locally.

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Music for this week's show provided by:

Rebellion (Lies) - The Arcade Fire

A Bottle of Red, A Bottle of Spite - Houston Calls

Batman 2 (The Beginning is the End is the Beginning) - Smashing Pumpkins

At The Speed Of A Yellow Bullet - Head Automatica

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm back.
0:02.0	I have returned.
0:03.3	Whoa, sometimes.
0:06.5	I get a little feeling.
0:09.4	I get the feeling that I never, never, never, never, never.
0:13.0	All right, ready? Yep.
0:14.4	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:32.1	You are listening to Science Sort of.
0:34.9	This is episode 142.
0:49.6	The theme this week is running from the truth. I am your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science, are the paleo pals who happen to have water-based pictures as their profile picks on Skype. Jacob Stump.
0:52.5	Holler. And Kelly Wiener-Smith. Hello!
0:57.4	This week, we are talking about both running and the truth.
0:59.0	And we are going to start off in reverse.
1:00.6	We are going to talk about the truth. And what that means, we're specifically going to be covering a story that is, it's been around the internet, but we're going to cover a post based on the website Doubtful News.
1:13.7	And it's called What Do Living Dinosaurs, the Lochness Monster, and the Ku Klux Klan have in common.
1:19.6	So this story is basically about how Louisiana has passed a law where they're going to provide a lot of vouchers for public school
1:28.9	kids to go to private schools, which is a topic that seems to be a very partisan issue.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.2	Honest, no judgment one way or the other. I'm just explaining the situation. Republicans like
1:41.4	school vouchers because it gets kids out of public school and they give money from the government to pay for the kids who go to private school, whereas Democrats don't like school vouchers.
1:50.2	They'd rather put money back into the public schools.
1:52.8	And usually those ideas are supported by teachers, unions, and things like that.
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