The Skeptics Guide #294 - Mar 2 2011

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 5 March 2011

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Eric-Jan Wagenmakers; This Day in Skepticism: Limelight; News Items: Predicting Earthquakes, Growing Fuel, Neutron Star Superflluidity, Heidi Follow up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Information Follow up, 10,000 Years in the Future; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:05.6	You're escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.4	Today is Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011, and this is your host, Steve in Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.2	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.2	Hello everyone.
0:22.2	Jane Novella.
0:23.2	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.3	It was on this day in 1830 that limelight as a form of lighting was presented before
0:30.4	scientists at the Tower of London, London, England, in a trial with two other lamp designs.
0:36.0	According to this one website, it was invented by a gentleman named Thomas Drummond in 1816.
0:41.8	And limelight was used, limelight used jets of oxygen to assist heating line to incandescence.
0:48.2	I found another website that disputes the fact that Drummond was the inventor.
0:56.0	And man named Goldsworthy Gurney.
0:59.0	That's a fake name.
1:00.0	No, it's not.
1:01.0	Goldsworthy.
1:02.0	Goldsworthy.
1:03.0	Goldsworthy.
1:04.0	I think that name is going to make a big comeback in the industry.
1:08.8	Was he stuck on the island with Gilligan?
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