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Steven Novella:
Interview with Debbie Feldman
This Day in Skepticism: Bridget Bishop
News Items: Medical Zombies, Science of Reruns, Leakey on Evolution
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Local Darkmatter Followup
Science or Fiction    This week's topic is:
What's the Harm?
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Trinoc:
Thanks folks. WTN starts at 34:40.

Surely it can't be as simple as a normal heartbeat or pulse heard through a stethoscope, or even detected by ultrasound or laser, so I wonder what the special thing about it is.

Edit: Maybe some sort of quack healing sound loop, like this? (Though this isn't it.)

Healing Heart Pulse - (Mind Entrainment + Developmental Heartbeat) V2

chexuma:
WTN: I'm going to go with a pulsar. Though a mystical space baby's heartbeat seems reasonable too.

mwilley:
It's the signal from vega in the movie of Carl Sagan's book 'Contact'.
Jodi Foster sits upright and clamps her earphones on, eyes widening. All of a sudden the film gets interesting for a short while.  ;D

Evil Eye:
WTN guess. The sound of a Quasar from the series Cosmos.

EDIT next day... CRAP! I meant to say PULSAR.

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