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Offline Steven Novella

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Episode #262
« on: Jul 24, 2010, 10:19:10 AM »
Interview with Randi & Banachek
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Who's That Noisy
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2010, 10:19:35 AM »
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #2 on: Jul 24, 2010, 10:53:35 AM »
WTN: Winston Churchill
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #3 on: Jul 24, 2010, 12:46:26 PM »
Nope, I'm guessing Bertrand Russell
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #4 on: Jul 24, 2010, 12:57:20 PM »
After some digging, I found it on youtube..

Good one this week Evan:

Bertrand Russell - to our descendants
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #5 on: Jul 24, 2010, 01:13:00 PM »
Damn! Too late! I would have guessed Bertrand Russell as well. Definitely not Churchill ... us Brits can tell one posh English accent from another.

Well spotted, Belgarath!
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #6 on: Jul 24, 2010, 01:46:08 PM »
I like this new star. It's reassuringly larger than me.
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #7 on: Jul 24, 2010, 02:02:53 PM »
Yes!! Definitely! One of my all-time heros, Bertrand Russell.
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #8 on: Jul 24, 2010, 03:18:19 PM »
All the Brits sound the same to me.  :)
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #9 on: Jul 24, 2010, 03:34:58 PM »
Quote from: smithkhome on Jul 24, 2010, 10:53:35 AM
WTN: Winston Churchill

Never was someone so wrong, in front of so many, with so little to go on.
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #10 on: Jul 24, 2010, 03:35:34 PM »
Quote from: Belgarath on Jul 24, 2010, 12:46:26 PM
Nope, I'm guessing Bertrand Russell

DAMNIT! damn 56k, I knew that one!
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #11 on: Jul 24, 2010, 03:57:36 PM »
WTN Bertrand Russell.

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Bertrand Russell: I would like to say two things –  one intellectual and one moral.  The intellectual thing I should want to  say to them is this; when you are studying any matter or considering  any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and  what is the truth that the facts bear out.  Never let yourself be  diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think would  have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only and  solely at what are the facts.  That is the intellectual thing that I  should wish to say.
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple – I  should say love is wise, hatred is foolish.  In this world, which is  getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to  tolerate each other.  We have to learn to put up with the fact that some  people say things that we don’t like.  We can only live together in that  way, and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn  a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to  the continuation of human life on this planet.
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #12 on: Jul 24, 2010, 03:59:20 PM »
Quote from: Belgarath on Jul 24, 2010, 12:46:26 PM
Nope, I'm guessing Bertrand Russell

You guessed? I'm skeptical.
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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #13 on: Jul 24, 2010, 04:18:24 PM »
Quote from: Evil Eye on Jul 24, 2010, 03:59:20 PM
Quote from: Belgarath on Jul 24, 2010, 12:46:26 PM
Nope, I'm guessing Bertrand Russell

You guessed? I'm skeptical.

I should have said 'It's Bertrand Russell.'  There really wasn't any guessing going on.

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Re: Episode #262
« Reply #14 on: Jul 24, 2010, 04:54:43 PM »
There's some confusion between magnets and electrostatics in this podcasts. Bob got it slightly wrong in his example when he mentioned magnets. An electric dipole is an object with uneven charge distribution. The classic example is an H2O molecule. The electron spends slightly more time at one end of the molecule. This means that water can exert electric force even though H2O has a total of zero charge. Most magnets  we encounter are ferromagnetic or electromagnets, none those are have unusual charge distribution. Also, as far as I know, one would not describe plus and minus electrical charges as north and south poles. Those terms are reserved for magnets.
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