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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #534 - Oct 3 2015

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Andy Weir; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Barbara McClintock; News Items: Water on Mars, Looking for Life on Mars, Brain Connections, Skeptic vs Denier; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Isograd; Science or Fiction

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.

0:06.4

Your escape to reality.

0:10.1

Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.

0:12.5

Today is Wednesday, September 30th, 2015, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

0:17.5

Joining him this week are Bob Novella.

0:19.4

Hey everybody.

0:20.4

Karris and Tamaria.

0:21.4

Howdy.

0:22.4

Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.

0:25.2

Good evening folks.

0:26.2

Got a little bit of a Texas Howdy from you this week.

0:28.2

Yeah, I'm thinking how would he be a new?

0:29.8

I'm going to try it out for a while.

0:31.0

Yeah, I like it.

0:33.0

Every week we get one week closer to the Star Wars release.

0:36.5

Guys excited?

0:37.5

Getting there.

0:38.5

The one thing that strikes me is because I'm on my Halloween mode.

0:42.7

So I go, I'm going to a lot of Halloween stores and I just see boat loads, boat loads

0:47.4

of Star Wars stuff all over the place.

0:50.6

It's all, oh, it's, it's incredible.

0:52.6

So it's just going to ramp up from here.

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