Skeptics Guide

The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #968 January 31st 2024 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 - Neuralink Implants Chip in Human theness.com/neurologicablog/n... News Item #2 - Love on the Brain www.sciencedaily.com/releases... News Item #3 - Amelia Earhart Plane May Be Discovered www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/travel... News Item #4 - Hiding Sickness neurosciencenews.com/social-b... News Item #5 - Cicada Double Brood www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/cic... Segment #2. Who’s That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Moon Mission Question #2: Microgel Insulin www.sciencedirect.com/science... Segment #4. Interview with Dustin Bates starsetsing... Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake - and you can play along. Theme: Animal Emotions Item 1: Most rats will stop pulling a lever to deliver a preferred treat if that lever also gives a fellow rat a small electric shock. Item 2: A recent study shows that goats are able to tell the difference between happy sounding and angry sound human voices. Item 3: Capuchin monkeys are one of the few non-human animals to be shown to cry emotional tears. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "If you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, "Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong." Kathryn Schulz, columnist The New Yorker - author of the book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

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Jay: "Oh, isn't that convenient for them." Lol

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Jay obviously forgot about when doves cry.

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Ackshully... Spock's Brain

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I still have my zip drive and discs LOL and windows XP pro OS CDS from 20 plus years ago LOL

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