The Skeptics Guide #1005 - Oct 12 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/skepticsguide Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Dumbest Thing of the Week: Loch Ness Sonar; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Fruit Fly Connectome, Shroud of Turin Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Cars; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and
0:12.8	Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:17.0	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.1	Hey everybody.
0:19.8	Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.1	Howdy.
0:21.7	J. Novella,
0:22.8	hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:24.8	Good evening, everyone.
0:26.2	So we are cozy up here in Connecticut,
0:27.9	but down in Florida, man, they are getting hammered
0:30.6	right as we record the shot. Yeah, Hurricane Milton is coming ashore and you know they're expecting surges of 9 to 12 feet in Tampa and surrounding areas.
0:43.0	Plus it's going to take a long time to cross and
0:46.0	and drop a ton of rain.
0:48.0	It's going to be bad.
0:50.0	It's bad.
0:51.0	This is the storm that made a meteorologist cry.
0:54.0	Literally he was tearing up because I think the real thing where it really hit home
1:01.0	on how extraordinary this is was when they realized that in 12 hours
1:05.8	it went from a category 1 to a category 5.
1:08.0	Which basically doesn't happen.
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