Skeptics Guide #232 - Jan 1 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2010

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

2009 Year in Review - with Special Guests Phil Plait and Mike Lacelle; SGU and Science News of 2009; Science and Skepticism in the Last Decade; Science or Fiction Stats; SGU in 2010

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.5	Today is Friday January 1st, 2010.
0:18.3	And this is your host, Steven Ovella.
0:20.7	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:24.6	Hello everyone.
0:25.6	Jane Ovella, or La, Mike Moussell, and Evan Bernstein.
0:30.8	Hey everyone.
0:31.8	Who's that Mike guy?
0:33.7	Mike is joining us for our year and wrap up episode, which has become no customary.
0:39.0	Oh, so welcome, Mike.
0:40.6	Evan, you're going to give us a day in skepticism?
0:43.0	Absolutely, because it was 1975 when Kenneth Ruger discovered the long unknown winter
0:49.3	destination of the monarch butterfly in the mountains of Mexico.
0:54.4	It was a mystery for a long time because it had no idea where the monarch butterflies,
0:59.0	all 20 million of these butterflies would fly off to.
1:03.5	How do you do it?
1:04.5	Did he follow them?
1:06.0	Using tags on the wings of some of the butterflies.
1:08.2	He followed their migration trails to Mexican territories.
1:11.4	And he studied it for, that was, it's 38 years of data.
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