The Skeptics Guide #481 - Sep 27 2014

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 27 September 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Daniel Dennett; This Day in Skepticism: Answering Machine; News Items: Nvidia Debunks Moon Hoax, GMO Feeding Trial, Touch Pareidolia, Betavoltaics; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptic's guide to the universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptic's guide to the universe.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, September 24th, 2014, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.5	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.3	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.3	Hello everyone.
0:22.3	Jane Novella.
0:23.3	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.3	Hi folks, how are you all tonight?
0:27.1	Doing good, Evan.
0:28.1	Alright, yeah.
0:29.1	Happy Birthday to the Answering Machine, which was invented on September 27th, 1950.
0:36.0	Now for the bulk of our audience, I will now describe what an Answering Machine is.
0:42.6	An Answering Machine was a little box that used to plug your phone into and when you weren't
0:47.1	there, at home, because you couldn't take your phone with you back then, the Answering
0:52.1	Machine would pick up and people would leave messages.
0:56.0	And it was very exciting.
0:57.8	We would leave prank messages sometimes.
1:00.8	We would have prank recordings on our Answering Machines.
1:04.3	Yeah, you mean the outgoing message was a prank, too?
1:06.8	Yeah.
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