The Skeptics Guide #151 - Jun 9 2008

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2008

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Jon Blumenfeld; News Items: NPR Psychics, Mars Lander Update, Petaflop Supercomputers, Optical Illusions; Your Questions and E-mails: Casey Predictions; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
0:14.3	Today is Monday June 9th, 2008.
0:17.6	And this is your host, Stephen Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.
0:22.0	Joining me this evening are Bob Novella, Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson, and Jane Novella.
0:29.5	Hello.
0:31.5	Here's Jeff.
0:35.5	Wait a minute, mix it up guys.
0:39.5	Evan has the night off, so you have no one to tell us what is special about June 9th.
0:45.5	What's special is that it's Evan Hot.
0:48.5	It's really hot today.
0:50.5	We've been right from a cool spring to a prematurely hot, early summer.
0:54.5	It's like 9 million degrees in my apartment.
0:57.5	What did I go through for this podcast?
0:59.5	All the law sent you over.
1:01.5	Wimbulance.
1:03.5	Aha, gosh, I remember that sense of what, like 1998.
1:07.5	Still funny.
1:09.5	It's funny, the first time I ever heard it.
1:11.5	That's because you're old.
1:13.5	Wow, oh.
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