Skeptics Guide #244 - Mar 18 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 20 March 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Greg Grunberg; News Items: When Homeopaths Attack, Texas Textbook Hubbub, Bacterial Fingerprint, Chief Exorcist, Biggest Quantum State; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Power Balance; Science or Fiction

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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.
0:13.3	Today is Thursday March 18, 2010 and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:19.0	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.9	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:22.7	Hello everyone.
0:24.0	Jane Novella.
0:25.0	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:27.5	Hi everyone. It was March 18, 1987 that the discovery of high temperature superconductivity
0:34.5	was announced to thousands of scientists at a packed meeting of the American Physical
0:39.3	Society in New York City.
0:41.3	Everyone you say the high temperature, you mean room temperature?
0:44.8	No, no, no, no.
0:46.2	No, no, no.
0:47.2	You see, back when the phenomenon was first discovered around 1911, it was known to
0:53.3	occur only at four degrees above absolute zero.
0:57.1	In all electrical resistance in the metal sample disappeared.
1:01.1	But in 1986, researchers discovered a ceramic material that was a superconductor at a
1:07.5	temperature of more than 30 degrees above absolute zero.
1:11.0	Yes, or a 30 Kelvin.
1:12.7	Right, 30K.
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