The Skeptics Guide #258 - Jun 16 2010
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 26 June 2010
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:07.3 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:13.3 | Today is Wednesday June 16, 2010 and this is your host, Steve in Novella. |
| 0:18.9 | Joining me this week are Bob Novella. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey everybody, Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:26.6 | It doesn't seem like it's been a whole week since we've been here. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.8 | It's been two days Evan. |
| 0:33.0 | So is there nothing special about today? |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, and the yet. |
| 0:36.2 | So, listening to this on June 26th and it was on June 26th in 2000, |
| 0:42.2 | that completion of a working draft reference DNA sequence of the human genome was announced |
| 0:48.2 | at the White House by President Bill Clinton and representatives from the human genome project |
| 0:53.8 | and the private company, Celera Genomics. |
| 0:57.7 | How's that going? |
| 0:59.0 | Great. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah, and the guy with Celera Genomics, that was that was venture. |
| 1:06.8 | That's a guy that just came out with the big synthetic cell news. |
| 1:09.8 | So he was in on that deal. |
| 1:12.3 | There was also a recent editorial in the New York Times saying that, |
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