Skeptics Guide #214 - Aug 25 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 29 August 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss; News Items: Surviving a Cataclysm, Zombie Apocalypse, WHO Says No to Homeopathy,Itako Fading, Dinochicken; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:12.2	Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
0:14.5	Today is Tuesday, August 25th, 2009, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:20.1	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:24.3	Hello everyone.
0:25.3	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:37.4	So nice they named him twice.
0:40.1	Presented his version of his telescope to the Senate of the City State of Venice.
0:46.8	Of course he wasn't the first guy to develop the telescope, right?
0:50.4	No, he wasn't.
0:51.4	No, no, no, in fact there were other designs.
0:53.8	He modified it based on a Dutch design from a telescope that he, I guess, had worked
0:58.2	with a year prior.
0:59.6	He probably also wasn't the first person to point it up at the sky either, but he certainly
1:04.4	was the first to popularize it or to make scientific discoveries doing that that have
1:09.9	survived to this day.
1:11.7	We're talking about the seeds of modern science and astronomy.
1:15.0	To celebrate that by the way is a company is making available the Galileo scope.
1:19.5	Have you guys heard about this?
1:21.0	No, no.
1:22.0	It's part of the international year of astronomy.
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