The Skeptics Guide #558 - Mar 19 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 19 March 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Bruce Hood; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose; News Items: AI Assistant, Cryotherapy; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Sciolism; Your Questions and E-mails: Valsalva Revisited, Non-Newtonian Fluids; 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.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.7	Today is Thursday, March 17, 2016, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, Hey everybody, Kara Santa Maria, and Jane Novella.
0:23.0	Hey guys.
0:24.0	Evan, who is a text account, is knee deep.
0:27.7	Actually, I think he's neck deep.
0:29.2	He's neck deep in text returns and is pulling it all nighter and couldn't make it tonight.
0:34.4	Yeah, he's like underwater until April 15th.
0:37.5	Did you guys finish yours?
0:38.9	No, yeah.
0:39.9	We're the reason people like Evan are neck deep.
0:42.3	That's right.
0:43.3	I submitted mine earlier than I ever have in my life, but it took somebody hacking my social
0:48.3	security number for me to do that.
0:50.2	Oh wow.
0:51.2	And that will put a fire under your ass.
0:53.7	Before we go on to Forgotten Superheroes Bob, we want to do a quick update on the Alpha
0:58.6	Go contest.
1:00.0	So we've game five finished on Tuesday and.
1:04.0	And Alpha Go finished his match against Lee's Soda.
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