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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #573 - Jul 2 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

What's the Word: Alluvium; News Items: MEND Protocol, The Cost of Carbon, China's New Supercomputer, Music Chills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail:Politics and Gun Control; 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 22, 2016, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

0:17.3

Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Cara Santa Maria, and Jane Novella.

0:22.5

Hey guys, we are recording a little bit early this week because I'm going to be out

0:26.0

of town next week. And Evan is still in Italy, still touring.

0:30.8

Oh yeah.

0:31.8

It's funny, he said it's a picture yesterday.

0:33.3

He was in, I think it's Florence, right?

0:35.4

Where there's a Piazza dei Santa Maria Novella.

0:38.5

That's Florence.

0:39.5

That's Florence.

0:40.5

Love it.

0:41.5

Yeah, so it looks as all of you guys in one day.

0:45.4

Florence is an unbelievably beautiful city.

0:47.6

Oh my god, did I look being there?

0:49.7

Yeah, it's beautiful.

0:50.9

And you know, when you say Florence, you know, it's like, it is the region of Florence, right?

0:55.3

So the country surrounding the city, I was talking to my wife about this.

1:00.1

It looks like what I would classify it as its heaven.

1:05.6

It's all hand manicured.

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