Skeptics Guide #190 - Mar 12 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Paranormal, Skepticism, Science, Fringe-science, Skeptic, Psuedoscience

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Interview with Kenneth Miller; News Items: Stem Cell Ban Lifted, When Chimps Attack, Mellow Yellow, Prince Charles Snake Oil; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:12.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.3	Today is Thursday, March 12, 2009.
0:18.0	And this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:20.6	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson, and Evan Bernstein.
0:28.9	Hi everyone, so we'll point out a couple of famous birthdays this week.
0:33.7	Both on March 13, one in 1855, Mr. Percival Lowell personally.
0:38.5	Yeah, he has an observatory named after him.
0:41.2	Lowell Observatory?
0:42.2	Prodicted the existence of the planet Pluto.
0:44.8	Initiated the surface.
0:45.8	And also the existence of canals on Mars.
0:48.2	Yes.
0:49.2	So he's batting 500.
0:50.2	That's just a bad...
0:52.2	Still better than me, so.
0:54.2	He's not alive anymore, by the way, folks.
0:56.6	And the other folk who was born on March 13, in 1733, Joseph Prisley.
1:02.8	Oh, Joe.
1:03.8	He's awesome.
1:04.8	Oh, from Beverly Hills, then, or two and else?
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