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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Wednesday, July 9, 2008, and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president of

the New England Skeptical Society.

Joining me this evening are Bob Novella, Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.

Hey, hello everyone.

Hey, hello there, Dennis, I'm Daniel Novella.

Hey guys, Evan Bernstein.

Oh and tonight we recognize the passing of Paul Baroque on this day in 1880, yes.

And his brain.

And his brain, that's right.

Broca's brain, the title of an excellent book by Carl Stingett.

That's the guy figured out that that bit of the brain is responsible for motor verbal output.

And then he named that bit of the brain, Broca's area, that's all Broca's area right?

Full of himself that broke it. It was always broke of this and broke it that no look at my brain

You're just jealous and you don't have a piece of the human anatomy named after you yet actually. It's funny. You should bring it up

No actually that's not good there. Yeah, isn't there Rebecca's bed or something?

Yes, I keep them in a jar by my bed

We have a few news items this week and then we're going to we're going to a play in a interview with James Randy that we recorded at at

Tam recently but first Einstein remember him Albert Einstein has been proven right yet again

I'm sure he's relieved. He's very special in general theories of relativity have pretty much passed every test

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