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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.

Today is Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013, and this is your host, Steven novella.

Joining me this week are Bob novella.

Hey everybody, Jane novella.

Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.

Good evening guys, how you doing?

Hello.

Hey you.

Rebecca is jet lagged tonight from traveling too much.

She's a jet center with this girl.

She's always traveling somewhere.

She said in the email that she couldn't keep her eyes open to choose, like falling asleep

on the couch, and I kind of turned that into her having like four or five beers, like

just kind of like a...

So Evan, you're back to your old job as this day in skepticism.

October 5th, every year, is world teachers day.

A day in which we celebrate the qualities of teachers around the world for everything

that they do.

Obviously education, recruitment of teachers, promotion of better learning conditions for

teachers, teachers play such an important vital role, an obvious role in our society, that

...