The Skeptics Guide #349 - Mar 24 2012

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This Day in Skepticism: Exxon Valdez; News Items: Superhero Pseudoscience, High Altitude Skydiving, Nuclear Clock, New Hampshire Abortion Bill, NDE and Lucid Dreaming, Designer Electrons; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Here Comes the Metric System; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.4	You're escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.4	Today is Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, and this is your host, Steven Ovella.
0:18.4	Joining me this week are Bob Navella.
0:20.3	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:22.3	Hello, everyone.
0:23.5	Jane Ovella.
0:24.6	What is this podcasting?
0:26.8	And Evan Bernstein.
0:29.5	Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
0:31.4	How's everyone?
0:31.9	Hello, Evan.
0:33.0	Fine and daddy.
0:34.0	Now this was some winter, huh?
0:35.8	Oh, this is my kind of winter.
0:38.2	We barely had any snow this year in New England.
0:40.7	It was in the 50s for a large part of the winter in Southern New England, which is unheard of.
0:45.3	I love the the Vernal Equinox because it means the next six months the sun is in the upper half of its course throughout the sky.
0:51.9	I hope all of you have released your white owls.
0:55.2	Well anyway, Rebecca, what else is special about this day?
0:58.6	Well, this day marks the anniversary of a quite horrific event.
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