The Skeptics Guide #976 - Mar 23 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission; Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR; News Items: Starship's Third Launch, Extinct Flu Virus, Keeping Voyager 1 Going, Death by Exorcism, Energy Demand Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fighting Lions; 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.
0:13.0	Today is Wednesday, March 20, 2024,
0:15.0	and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:18.0	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.0	Hey everybody.
0:21.0	Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.0	Howdy. Jay novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.0	Happy Equinox.
0:27.0	Yeah, yesterday the 19th was the first day of spring,
0:31.0	I always love the first day of spring it was a day earlier than
0:34.9	typical you guys know why yes I know why now here it's a leap year because the leap
0:41.1	year exactly and it was the earliest spring equinox since 1896.
0:49.0	Why?
0:50.0	Because, interesting, I had to look it up, because the year
0:54.0	year 2000 was also a leap year and normally the years divisible by a hundred or not leap years
1:01.1	unless they're divisible by 400 and 2,000 therefore was a leap year and that just
1:07.8	also introduced you know a adjusted the calendar so that the date you know is early and
1:15.6	and basically every four years between now and 21.03 will be the earliest spring equinox.
1:24.2	You know what I mean?
1:25.0	You know, just keep getting slightly earlier,
1:26.6	like by a few minutes, you know, like earlier
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