The Skeptics Guide #284 - Dec 22 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

News Items: Arsenic-Based Life, Buttology, V-Steam, Singing Mice, The Real daVinci Code; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Power Bands with James Randi and the SkepticBros; 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.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.3	Today is Wednesday, December 22, 2010, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:18.8	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, Pavellebody, Rebecca Watson, J. Novella, and Evan Bernstein.
0:28.1	Everyone, do you know what happened on December 22, 1938?
0:32.3	I do not know, but it smells fishy, Evan.
0:34.5	Yeah, very good, Jay.
0:37.3	It's called a seal-a-can. Have you ever heard of seal-a-can?
0:41.5	That's a good album by George Trump.
0:43.1	Living fossil.
0:44.0	Right, that's right.
0:45.2	Well, this was the date in history that it was discovered by a museum curator in South Africa.
0:53.1	She spotted this very unusual fish in part of a trash pile of a captain of a ship who actually caught it and brought it to her attention.
1:03.2	He said, what's this?
1:04.4	It was pale blue with iridescent silver markings, and she sent a sketch off to a Dr. Smith,
1:12.5	who was a senior lecturer in chemistry from Rhodes University in South Africa,
1:17.1	and it was hailed as the zoological discovery of the century, equating it to finding a living dinosaur.
1:23.8	So they actually found one that was alive or that captain caught it in a bunch of other fish and then let it go?
1:30.3	No, he didn't let it go. It was there. It was there, dead, but...
1:34.1	They had this specimen, yeah.
1:35.3	Had this specimen.
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