The Skeptics Guide #493 - Dec 20 2014

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2014

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Guest Rogue: George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: First Electronic Instrument; Special Reports: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments; News Items: DNA Survives Spaceflight, Hong Kong Pillows, Discovering New Particles, Graphene Armor, Survey on Apathy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.8	They is Saturday November 29th, 2014 and this is your host, Steve and Novella.
0:24.9	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:26.5	Hey everybody.
0:27.5	Hey guys.
0:30.5	Rebecca Watson.
0:31.5	Evan Bernstein.
0:32.5	And special guest road, George Rob.
0:41.5	Welcome George.
0:42.8	So we are recording the show on November 29th, but this is going to be going up on December
0:52.9	20th, which will be a few weeks from now because we already have a couple of shows in the
0:57.0	can as they say.
0:58.0	So we are doing a live show in front of an elite studio audience.
1:04.0	Good looking audience.
1:05.0	Yeah, very good looking audience.
1:09.0	You're right.
1:10.0	December 20th.
1:11.0	Apparently today, December 20th, in the year our Lord, 1900, the journal Nature published
1:20.3	a article that William Dubois, Dubois.
1:27.6	Well he's probably English.
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