Today we're going to answer six questions that have been sent in by students who

heard something weird online or from their friends and wanted to get the

Skeptoid Angle on it. Among them we're going to talk about something that's

current in the world of science right now. Can we actually clone and recreate a

woolly mammoth? Now that we have their genome recovered from frozen individuals.

Student questions are today on Skeptoid.

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Student questions, marauding mammoths, and Queen Elizabeth the man. Today

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the

world. We're going to examine the value of Bikram yoga, the possibility of

bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth back to life through

cloning, the necessity of thawing chicken properly to avoid kitchen

bacteriological warfare, whether Queen Elizabeth the first was a man or a

woman, whether the consumption of certain foods can influence dreams, and whether

the popular medical practice of avoiding cholesterol is indeed a major factor

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