The Skeptics Guide #519 - Jun 20 2015

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jerry Lawson; News Items: Nutrition Research, Graphene Light Emission, Global Warming Challenge, Philae Wakes Up; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: David Tredinnick; Your Questions and E-mails: Hive Mind; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.5	Your escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.5	Today is Wednesday, June 17th, 2015, and this is your host, Eva Novella.
0:17.5	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.3	Hey everybody, Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:23.5	Good evening folks.
0:25.0	Have any of you guys experienced virtual reality goggles yet have you done the Oculus
0:28.6	Writh thing?
0:29.6	No, I did old tech years ago, but I used the recent one.
0:34.7	I had a friend of mine bought the SDK, you know, that they send you the thing to develop
0:40.5	software with it.
0:42.3	This isn't the brand new one that's coming out very soon.
0:44.8	This is the one that's been around for a couple of years.
0:47.3	And it was remarkable.
0:48.3	You didn't find it heavy, bulky sort of pulling on your heads kind of uncomfortable.
0:52.2	No.
0:53.2	To where?
0:54.2	No.
0:55.2	No, it was really actually pretty damn good and they made massive improvements on the
0:57.8	latest one.
0:58.8	I tell you, like the coolest thing that I experienced while using it was, you know, you
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