The Skeptics Guide #313 - Jul 13 2011

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 10 July 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Matthew Chapman; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Hypnotized to Death, Color of Extinct Birds, Magnetic Microprocessors, Twintuition; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: Creationist Arguments; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.5	Your escape to reality.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.8	Today is Wednesday, July 13, 2011 and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:18.7	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.3	Hey everybody, we're Rebecca Watson.
0:22.3	Hello everyone.
0:23.3	Jane Novella.
0:24.3	Hey guys.
0:25.3	And Evan Bernstein.
0:26.3	Hi everybody.
0:27.3	Hi everybody.
0:30.3	Evan what you got for the stay in skeptics is all.
0:31.3	July 16, 1945.
0:33.3	The world officially enters the atomic age when the first atomic bomb was exploded at Los
0:39.3	Salamos, Mexico.
0:41.3	Code name Trinity and that explosion was a ball of fire that reached out over 40,000 feet
0:49.1	packing a punch equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.
0:53.3	So that was just 20 kilotons.
0:55.3	That sounds tiny when they were getting into mega tons.
0:59.0	You got to remember this is the first one.
1:01.0	Yeah, yeah.
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