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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #758 - Jan 18 2020

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Joe Carvalko; News Items: Xenobots, Goop on Netflix, Oldest Material on Earth, UFOs and National Security, Goldilocks Stars; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: England and Wales; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Your escape to reality.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Today is Wednesday, January 15, 2020, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

0:17.5

Join him in this week or Bob Novella.

0:19.5

Hey everybody, Jane Novella. Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.

0:23.0

Good evening folks.

0:25.0

So Cara is not with us for most of the show. She has a late class.

0:30.0

Well, Mr. Cara, I had a strange experience this morning. I was driving home from work.

0:34.0

Well, that's a little personal stuff.

0:36.0

You said the strange experience this morning driving two hours?

0:39.0

No, this afternoon. This afternoon.

0:41.0

Okay.

0:42.0

Earlier to say, but yeah, I was, you know, I get home early in the afternoon, most Wednesday.

0:46.0

It was like two o'clock. You know, you get in the car, you're on autopilot of going through my things.

0:49.0

The radio comes on automatically because it was on when I shut the car off.

0:52.0

Yep. And there's some guy talking on the radio about, you know, about neuroscience, right?

0:57.0

It's only like half paying attention.

0:59.0

And then it starts to sound like really familiar, like the things that the guy is saying.

1:04.0

And as I start paying close to retention and it's me.

1:07.0

Yeah.

1:08.0

I hate when that happens.

1:10.0

That's nuts. That is nuts.

1:13.0

It was funny. The time was perfect. So it was MPR.

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