The Skeptics Guide #177 - Dec 10 2008

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2008

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

News Items: Age of the Sphinx with Dr. James P Allen, Supernova Reflections and Milky Way's Black Hole with Phil Plait, Searching for Dyson Spheres; Your Questions and E-mail: Skeptical Authority; Randi Speaks: Cold Reading; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:12.2	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.6	Today is Wednesday, December 10, 2008, and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president
0:20.1	of the New England Skeptical Society.
0:22.3	Join me this evening, our Bob Novella.
0:24.6	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:26.5	Hello everyone.
0:27.5	Jane Novella.
0:28.5	Hey guys.
0:29.5	And Evan Bernstein.
0:30.5	Hi everyone.
0:31.5	And we have to acknowledge the passing on this date of Alfred Bernhard Nobel on December
0:41.0	10, 1896.
0:42.0	Is he real?
0:43.0	Is he real death or is he first fake death?
0:47.0	I guess it was his real death, sorry.
0:49.6	Of course the famous Swedish chemist and vendor of dynamite and other things.
0:54.4	He'll create an industrial empire manufacturing, master huge fortune of which he left the
0:59.8	fun to endow the annual prizes that bear his name of course.
1:04.4	And these prizes were first awarded in 1901, also on this date I believe.
1:08.1	Great.
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