The Skeptics Guide #515 - May 23 2015

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 23 May 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Sherman Morgan; Movie Review: Ex Machina; News Items: Federal Anti-SLAPP, Anti-Bacterial Soap and Cancer, Light-Based Computing, Online Timelapse; Who's That Noisy; 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.
0:12.5	Today is Wednesday, May 20th, 2015, and this is your host, Eva Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.2	Hey everybody, Jane Novella.
0:20.7	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:22.8	Good evening folks.
0:24.3	How are you guys doing this week?
0:25.6	Quite well sir.
0:26.4	Good, doing good.
0:27.4	We have a great movie review coming up, so the movie X Machina.
0:31.4	But Bob, you're going to start with a forgotten superhero of science.
0:35.4	All right guys, for this week's forgotten superheroes of science, we're going to be talking about
0:39.5	chemical engineer Mary Sherman Morgan, who was considered the first female rocket scientist
0:46.1	who also helped develop a new fuel critical to the United States' first satellite in space.
0:52.5	Every here or her?
0:53.5	No sir.
0:54.5	Morgan was born in 1921 and she died in 2004.
1:00.2	At her funeral, one of her mom's old colleagues whispered to her surprise son George.
1:06.7	He said, your mom single-handedly saved the America space program and nobody knows it,
1:12.4	but a handful of old men.
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