Ep 80: Science... sort of - Strength in Numbers

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Dr. Christie Rowe had a problem with an article Simon Winchester published about recent earthquakes and bogus predictions. She let him know about her problems and he wasn't exactly a gentlemen or a good journalist about her critiques. We talk to Christie about her experiences trying to bully the bully pulpit into present honest science to the public instead of fear mongering for higher hit counts.

Read about the entire interaction on the Paleocave Blog.
Also read Dr. Rowe's followup post to the entire debacle at Scientific American's Guest Blog.

00:34:22 - What are we drinking? Christie also sticks around to counter misconceptions about boxed wine. Patrick concurs and is feeling mighty red and cheap himself. On the other hand, Charlie and Ryan compete to see who can be more bitter. Surprisingly (or maybe not), Ryan pulls out a win.

00:39:21 - Trailer Trash Talk, doubling up as Patrick's PaleoPOW via Jeff Sykes, ventures into potential ramble territory this week as the Paleopals discuss the upcoming documentary The People vs. George Lucas.

00:53:22 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like debates, frustrating, unconvincing and ultimately futile, but boy are they fun! Charlie has a well-thought out question from Jesus S. of Oregon about terraforming Mars in a very dramatic way. Ryan has a much shorter piece of feedback by far in the form of a tweet from @Edib0y regarding an essay inspired by the show. Here's hoping he doesn't get an F!

Thanks for listening! Be sure to check out the Paleocave Blog for occasional updates from you favorite podcasters.

Music for this week's show:

This Is Why We Fight - The Decemberists

Bitter End - Dixie Chicks

Duel of the Fates - John Williams

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, what happened?
0:01.4	I had a computer quakes, which means that it's probably going to trigger a computer quake in one of you guys.
0:07.0	Oh, no.
0:07.8	Everybody be careful.
0:09.7	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:18.9	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:21.1	This is episode 80, and our theme this week is Strength in Numbers.
0:25.4	I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me, as always, to discuss things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science are the paleo pals.
0:33.2	Patrick?
0:33.8	Hey, guys, how's it going?
0:35.5	Are you talking to them or me?
0:38.2	It's rhetorical.
0:39.5	Okay.
0:40.1	It's going well.
0:42.0	Well, who, uh, well, that's, and that's Charlie, who it's going well for?
0:45.7	Those were my long air particles vibrating my vocal cords.
0:50.8	Oh, longitudinal wave, no less.
0:53.6	So, joining us to discuss our first story of which
0:57.5	she also happens to be the subject of is Dr. Christy Rowe from University of California, Santa Cruz.
1:04.7	Hi, guys. Hello. Thanks for having me. Our pleasure. So, Patrick, why don't you explain to the good
1:10.7	people in their ears what's going on and why we have Christy joining us?
1:15.2	Okay, well, in the most recent issue of Newsweek, there's an article by Simon Winchester. And Simon Winchester, you may know because he's a popular geology writer. He wrote The Map That Changed the World. That's probably his most famous popular press book. So he's a popular geology writer. He wrote the map that changed the world. That's probably his most
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