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Episode #265
« on: Aug 14, 2010, 10:13:18 AM »
Interview with Aubrey de Grey
News Items: Evolving Simulated Intelligence, Proximal Intercessory Prayer, Bermuda Triangle Solved, Booty Enhancement Spell, Censoring Skepticism featuring Interview with Rhys Morgan
Who's That Noisy
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #1 on: Aug 14, 2010, 10:42:41 AM »
OK, my turn to spill the beans ... WTN is at 35:11. Nobody got it, so Evil Eye wins because he sent it in. Well done EE!

I haven't a clue about this week's clip ... some kind of frog or grasshopper?
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #2 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:10:13 AM »
WRT Crohn's disease, this might seem strange but it seems to work.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #3 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:23:45 AM »
Thanks for the Podcast and all your hard work for rationality.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #4 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:30:05 AM »
I love the simulated evolution stuff. I was working on something myself, but I wanna quit and start over now that I hear what these guys are doing...  :-\

If anyone hasn't seen Karl Sims' work... it's amazing:



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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #5 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:43:22 AM »
Quote from: Trinoc on Aug 14, 2010, 10:42:41 AM
OK, my turn to spill the beans ... WTN is at 35:11.

You son of a bitch! :argh:

Now I have nothing to live for...
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #6 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:46:14 AM »
Actually, the BBC wasn't the first to test the methane clarthate theory. There was a Discovery Channel show that tested it first. In fact they both tested the airplane and ship theories.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #7 on: Aug 14, 2010, 11:58:54 AM »
That was a... very personal pronounciation of Hippocrates.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #8 on: Aug 14, 2010, 12:13:55 PM »
"I quickly rubbished." by Reese. Quote of the Week!
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #9 on: Aug 14, 2010, 12:32:52 PM »
Did anyone check out the ebay listing for the witch offering booty enhancements? Boy, is she in need of a spell checker ...
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Re: Episode #265 - Evolving Simulated Intelligence
« Reply #10 on: Aug 14, 2010, 12:53:31 PM »
Evolving Simulated Intelligence

"Microcosmic God"  Theodore Sturgeon  - 1941

Except he used actual life instead of a computer for the high speed evolution.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #11 on: Aug 14, 2010, 12:59:00 PM »
Quote from: Chew on Aug 14, 2010, 12:13:55 PM
"I quickly rubbished." by Reese. Quote of the Week!

Reese = Spiney?
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #12 on: Aug 14, 2010, 01:34:43 PM »
Quote from: Trinoc on Aug 14, 2010, 12:32:52 PM
Did anyone check out the ebay listing for the witch offering booty enhancements? Boy, is she in need of a spell checker ...

Strangely, she only has pictures of women. Either men don't want a nice butt, or they are smarter than women and don't fall for this kind of stuff.
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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #13 on: Aug 14, 2010, 02:36:02 PM »
Quote from: Trinoc on Aug 14, 2010, 10:42:41 AM
OK, my turn to spill the beans ... WTN is at 35:11. Nobody got it, so Evil Eye wins because he sent it in. Well done EE!

I haven't a clue about this week's clip ... some kind of frog or grasshopper?


Thanks.

I actually stole that from "Here's Why" with Ian Woolf.

But I read up on Lowell Thomas, and even just his wiki entry made me jealous. The guy lived an AMAZING life.

Here's the full clip. (iTunes)

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Re: Episode #265
« Reply #14 on: Aug 14, 2010, 04:24:30 PM »
When I worked as a psych nurse, a patient came up and said she needed her doctor right away. I asked her "which doctor?" She looked distressed and said "No, I want a real one". Really.
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