The Skeptics Guide #797 - Oct 17 2020

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Paul Thibado; News Items: Excess Deaths from Pandemic, When Satellites Collide, Humans Evolving Extra Blood Vessel; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Time and Traffic; 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.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.9	Today is Wednesday, October 14, 2020, and this is your host, Stephen Nevela.
0:17.7	Joining me this week are Bob Nevela, Hey everybody, Karris and Maria.
0:21.7	Howdy.
0:22.7	J. Nevela.
0:23.7	Hey guys, Evan Bernstein.
0:24.7	Evening folks.
0:25.7	And we have a special guest this week, Brian Wecht.
0:29.9	Brian, welcome back to the Skeptics Guide.
0:31.9	Hi, thanks so much for having me back.
0:33.7	So Brian, tell us how you went from being a physicist to a rock star.
0:37.9	Yeah, so I was a, you know, career academic, did the whole grad school, postdoc, faculty,
0:46.8	root, and in the middle of actually in grad school I started performing at improv clubs in
0:53.3	San Diego and went to UCSD.
0:55.7	And kind of started this whole side career as a comedian and musician.
1:00.4	I have an undergraduate degree in music.
1:03.6	And when I was, I was a postdoc in theoretical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study
1:09.0	in Princeton.
1:11.0	And I started collaborating on this kind of two-man comedy music act with a guy I met.
1:18.1	And it became like a legit thing and cut to, I don't know what it was.
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