The Skeptics Guide #994 - Jul 27 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

What's the Word: Calculus; News Items: Water Harvesting, Chimp Communication, Dark Oxygen, Nuclear Clocks, Creationism Survey; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Logic of God; 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.
0:12.0	Today is Wednesday, July 24th, 2012. Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, July 24, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.4	Hey everybody.
0:20.0	Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.3	Howdy.
0:21.8	Jay Novella,
0:22.8	hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.0	Good evening, everyone.
0:26.3	So I want to start off by thanking the millions of people
0:28.8	who emailed me about this past New York Times
0:31.9	Sunday Crossword puzzle. which I've been doing for a while,
0:36.4	the New York Times crossword puzzle,
0:38.4	is my daily sort of bathroom game routine.
0:41.6	And the Sunday ones are tough. Well, they're just big. Yeah, they're
0:45.0	a little, they're definitely, the clues are more difficult. A little bit more obscure.
0:47.5	Well, Sunday is supposed to be, I've done a lot of research on this.
0:50.1	Sunday is supposed to be the same difficulty as Wednesday. Is that right?
0:53.1	So it starts Monday, which is the easiest.
0:55.0	On Monday, yeah, I guess I always see the contrast being Sunday and Monday.
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