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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2009

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, Steve Murski here with the previously promised part two of what is now last week's science talk podcast,

0:39.7

namely totally bogus.

0:42.5

Here are four science stories, but only three are true.

0:45.8

See if you know which story is totally bogus.

0:49.0

Story one, clamshell packaging injuries.

0:51.6

If you may remember last week's podcast, we talked with Karen

0:55.2

Hopkin about the clamshell packaging injury study that took place in Pennsylvania, but that

1:01.4

only covered Pennsylvania. It turns out that clamshell packaging injuries are not limited

1:06.5

to people from Pennsylvania, apparently. I kind of suspected that was the case.

1:11.2

Statistics from the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicate that emergency room visits

1:16.1

due to injuries from hard-to-open plastic packaging number around 6,000 annually.

1:22.5

Story 2, when the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, that's DARPA to you and me, hoisted 10 large

1:30.0

red balloons from spots around the country earlier this month. The intent was to see how

1:34.7

social networking could be used to quickly identify all the locations. But after more than three

1:39.8

weeks, only six of the balloons have so far been definitively spotted.

1:45.1

Story three, students attempting to solve math problems were faster and more accurate if they

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