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Offline Steven Novella

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Episode #81
« on: Feb 09, 2007, 09:24:47 PM »
Podcast #81 2/7/2007
TAM5 Interviews Part III: Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer, and Mythbusters Adam Savage and Tory Belleci
News Items: Enviga Suit, Iran AIDS Cure, Creationists in Kenya
Your E-mails and Questions: Follow up on Global Warming, Youngest Skeptic
Science or Fiction
Skeptical Puzzle
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 09, 2007, 11:40:27 PM »
Cool interview with Phil. Man, I want to see his 'Moon Hoax' talk!!

It's about time you had Hoagland on!

Perry didn't really comment on the fact he appears to skeptical of the thousand of scientists that make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I would be very interseted to hear his thoughts on that.

And was Adam insinuating that Natural Selection is a myth?!?!
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 09, 2007, 11:43:11 PM »
Gee

rebecca sounds weird today
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« Reply #3 on: Feb 10, 2007, 12:00:59 AM »
Maybe she's sober for once, and that's what she sounds like normally. ;)


Nice puzzle Evan by the way. I can't believe you didn't even give us a cryptic clue. Bastard!

This one reminds me of a similar question in which the sequence turns out to be the number of moons per planet in the solar system.  But it obviously isn't that.

Multiples of increasing distances to planets?  Some elemental property perhaps, H, He, Li, Be ...?  Isotopes, allotropes, etc... ?  Number of times you shake a homoeopathic remedy?  It sounds so damn familiar ...

What are you thinking you sly son-of-a-gun?  Where's cosmicvagabond when you need him?
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« Reply #4 on: Feb 10, 2007, 12:10:25 AM »
She sounds like Mecha-Rebecca.  The shiny aluminum replica of Rebecca.
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« Reply #5 on: Feb 10, 2007, 12:18:01 AM »
She might be talking from the bottom of the empty vat.



"Mecca-Rebecca" ...  I like that. :D
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« Reply #6 on: Feb 10, 2007, 12:30:50 AM »
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And was Adam insinuating that Natural Selection is a myth?!?!
 

No, he just said that he would like to test it.

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Gee

rebecca sounds weird today


I'm guessing something was wrong with her mic, and that was why she wasn't speaking much.

Here's the snopes page on the Coke dissolving tooth urban legend.  It gives possible sources for where the myth came from: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp
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« Reply #7 on: Feb 10, 2007, 01:02:09 AM »
I'd like Al Gore to provide solutions that won't crush what remains of the manufacturing sector in the US.  Punishing manufacturing in the US for polluting will simply move the manufacturing to Kyoto-exempt China.  Lawyers and movie stars will still be able to feed their children.  The poor and working class will pay the highest price.  

How about an international team of scientists working together on shared technology?
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« Reply #8 on: Feb 10, 2007, 01:36:14 AM »
Latest Science or Fiction rankings here.
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« Reply #9 on: Feb 10, 2007, 04:45:42 AM »
Rebecca screwed up and had her mic settings wrong (she had her recorder set to the internal mic on her computer rather than her headset). She redubbed her science or fiction answer, that's why that was clear.
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« Reply #10 on: Feb 10, 2007, 08:34:19 AM »
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And was Adam insinuating that Natural Selection is a myth?!?!
 

No, he just said that he would like to test it.


Yes, on a show called Mythbusters.
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 10, 2007, 09:08:10 AM »
I think the puzzel numbers are all the denominatinos we can have in change with our current currency system.
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« Reply #12 on: Feb 10, 2007, 10:00:11 AM »
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I think the puzzel numbers are all the denominatinos we can have in change with our current currency system.


Yeah, coins in order of size from smallest to largest.
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« Reply #13 on: Feb 10, 2007, 10:33:01 AM »
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And was Adam insinuating that Natural Selection is a myth?!?!
 

No, he just said that he would like to test it.


Yes, on a show called Mythbusters.
The results of that show often come out to show that the thing being tested is not a myth. Somehow I doubt that the Mythbusters are creationists.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 10, 2007, 10:43:50 AM »
cheers febo

good catch on the ommision.
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