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Weekly science podcast produced by the New England Skeptical Society. Also provides blogs, forums, videos and resources.

This Day in Skepticism

August 2, 1880 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted officially by Parliament.
News Items

Mike Adams Follow Up http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/07/28/fbi-turns-up-heat-on-mike-adams-as-health-ranger-fiasco-widens-plus-adams-archive/
Battery Advance http://www.theskepticsguide.org/scientists-approach-holy-grail-of-battery-technology-but-is-it-more-of-a-holey-grail
Ray Comfort's Gravity Gaffe http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-comforts-gravity-gaffe
Dinosaur Feathers http://www.theskepticsguide.org/most-dinosaurs-may-have-had-feathers
Dinosaur Extinction http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dinosaur-extinction-revisited/
Who's That Noisy

Who's That Noisy Answer to last week: Dot Matrix Printer
Interview

Interview With Bill Nye http://billnye.com/
Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

Item #1 A recently published analysis indicates that, if we continue our current mix of electricity generation, 20-40% of the world will have serious water shortage by 2020, and there will be a global water shortage by 2040. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140729093112.htm
Item #2 Physicists have successfully separated the properties of a particle from the particle itself, so the particle was in one location while its magnetic moment was in another. http://blogs.chapman.edu/press-room/2014/07/23/the-quantum-cheshire-cat-can-a-particle-be-separated-from-its-properties/
Item #3 Researchers have successfully created Cooper pairs, the hallmark of superconductivity, in an indium alloy at near room temperature. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/uoia-pun072814.php
Skeptical Quote of the Week

Skeptical Quote of the Week “I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won’t feel they’re human anymore, to be proved wrong because that’s the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.” -Lawrence M. Krauss