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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #567 - May 21 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2016

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

SGU Live from NECSS with special guest: Bill Nye; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Cecilia Helena-Payne Gaposshkin; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Prince Charles and Homeopathy; News Items: Failure is an Option, Prosecuting Climate Change Denial, Lost Myan City, Why is Space 3D; What's the Word: Group Animal Names; Science or Fiction

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the skeptic sky to the universe.

0:06.4

Your escape to reality.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome to the skeptic sky to the universe.

0:14.8

Today is Saturday, May 14th, and we are live from Nexus 2016.

0:27.4

Joining me this week are Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jane Novella, Evan Bernstein,

0:49.7

and we have a special guest for this episode.

1:04.7

So the episode that we do from Nexus every year is our memorial episode for Perry DeAngelis,

1:17.2

who is the rogue who is no longer with us.

1:19.5

And we include now Mike Lissell and Michael Oedicelli to other friends of the show, supporters

1:25.2

of the podcast, close friends of ours, who we lost recently as well.

1:30.1

This is the episode we would like to remember, especially Perry, who is still with the show.

1:36.3

And we were just telling me yesterday, he thinks about Perry every day.

1:40.6

I do as well.

1:41.6

We still get emails, still get emails from people who are going back, listening to the

1:44.9

first 100 episodes that Perry was in, and sort of experiencing what he brought to the

1:50.6

podcast all over again, experiencing his loss all over again.

1:54.4

It keeps it very real for us.

1:57.1

And now it's been nine years, nine years, and it's still very, very, very present for

2:02.9

us.

2:03.9

Okay, Bob, you're going to start us off with a forgotten superhero of science.

2:08.6

For this week superhero, superhero of science, I'm going to cover Cecilia Helena Paine

2:12.6

Gabboschkin.

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