The Skeptics Guide #178 - Dec 16 2005

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 20 December 2008

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Reading Minds; Burglar Trapped by Ghost
Your Questions and E-mail: The Bloop, Evolution Questions; 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.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.7	Today is Tuesday, December 16, 2008, and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president
0:20.8	of the New England Skeptical Society.
0:23.1	Joining me this evening are Bob Novella.
0:25.1	Hey everybody, Rebecca Wanson.
0:27.0	Hello everyone.
0:28.6	Jane Novella.
0:29.6	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:31.6	Hello everyone.
0:33.3	On this day in 1935, the use of eye prints, which are patterns of the catalyries in the
0:39.4	retina, was described in an article in Time Magazine as a new scientific method for identification
0:45.2	because an individual's eye pattern is as unique as fingerprints.
0:50.1	Yeah, well that explains why we're all using eye prints to get into our houses and…
0:55.9	Well the problem is it got a little messy when they had to roll the ink on the eye and
0:59.6	kind of press it on the paper.
1:01.0	I'm sure high-tech installations are using that.
1:06.8	Biometric analysis, it's great, it's really good, but there's better things now.
1:12.4	In iris image, your irises are more unique than even your DNA.
1:17.6	That blew me away when I read that.
1:20.4	Wow.
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