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Top 5 Most Ridiculous Comments: Facepalms Galore!
Quite a smattering of ridiculousness this week. People open their mouths, and all sorts of nonsense spews forth. But in the end, it only matters if people choose to believe this garbage, and there is...
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The SGU Cutting Room Floor: Episode # 476
The American Indians would use 100% of the buffalo they killed. Remember that “fact” from 3rd grade? Turns out it is wrong, there were plenty of remnants. So when Steve takes the raw footage (hence the...
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Asteroid Flyby will Skim Our Satellites
A smallish asteroid (20 meters) will be passing very close to the earth this weekend. We and our satellites are not in danger but 25,000 miles away is uncomfortably close. The name of this newly...
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The SGU Cutting Room Floor – Episode #477
In preparation for our two SGU recordings at Dragon Con 2014, we had to record episode #477 earlier than normal, almost a week ahead of our usual schedule. Because so much science and skeptic news...
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The SGU Cutting Room Floor – Episode #479
The Ten Commandments. Car-hackers. John of God. A brilliant parrot. Here are a few items which we could not get to for Episode #479. It is a scary thought that your car or truck might be hackable, and...
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The Infant Earth: Less Hellish But Still Probably Not a Fun Place
Recent comparisons between the oldest rocks on the earth and more modern ones bolster the theory that the infant earth was not as hellish as we we once thought it was. Depictions of earth when it was a...
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The SGU Cutting Room Floor – Episode #480
Only 20 more shows to the otherwise arbitrary achievement of Episode #500. So while we wait a few months for that event, there were a few things that went unsaid from our most recent episode #480. This...
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Hoverboards Are Here: Sorta
A prototype hoverboard…yes a hoverboard, was demonstrated recently that allows a man to stand on it and float around but only over certain conductive metals. I know what you’re thinking. Either that...
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Smell Amazing Dan’s Finger!
My family and I went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City yesterday. We visited the Hayden Planetarium (Neil deGrasse Tyson’s stomping grounds.) Currently, the feature event...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Horror
Halloween for me is not just the mad decorating, costuming, horror tv watching, or scaring people. An integral part has also long been what Halloween audio has to offer. I used to have quite a commute...
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Student Physicists Accuse Superhero Flash of Potential Negligent Homicide
An assessment by physics students of the Flash in a scene from his new tv show concludes that snatching someone at superspeed to prevent an accident would cause more injuries than just letting him get...
View ArticleWe’ve Landed on a Frakkin Comet!
Congratulations to the European Space Agency on their successful mission to land a probe on a comet. This is a first that will certainly get a well-deserved place in the record books. The handful of...
View ArticleGravity May Have Prevented The Premature Collapse Of All Of Reality
New scientific calculations earlier this year predicted that the Higgs particle should have collapsed the entire universe moments after the big bang. It now seems that did not happen because of the...
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Asteroid Flyby will Skim Our Satellites
A smallish asteroid (20 meters) will be passing very close to the earth this weekend. We and our satellites are not in danger but 25,000 miles away is uncomfortably close. The name of this newly...
View ArticleUniversity Press Releases Create Hype
A newly published study in the BMJ found that health science press releases are a major source of hype and sensationalism in reporting about the science. The authors reviewed “Press releases (n=462) on...
View ArticleScience Bowl Matchup: Bill Belichick vs Bill Nye The Science Guy
Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction. The controversy surrounding this year’s football championship game, The Super Bowl, certainly qualifies. The New England Patriots football team will be...
View ArticleExorcism at a Care Home in Norway
Managers of a government-funded care home in Norway hired a “clairvoyant” to drive out evil spirits. According to The Local (a Norwegian news website published in English) the staff at Madshaven...
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Smiley Face Writ Large In Distant Galaxy Cluster
The Hubble Space Telescope has found that largest smiley face ever discovered…in a galaxy cluster 4.5 billion light years from earth. Look at the picture again. Sure, it’s just a meaningless...
View ArticleA New Twist on “Psychic Surgery”
A British woman suffering from debilitating back pain for many years is claiming she was healed by the spirit of a doctor who was alive in the 19th century, as reported a few days ago by The Mirror. In...
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Scientists Propose Incorrect Origin Of Backwards Eye
Researchers claim to discover why the retina of most vertebrates is built backwards with the light receptors behind a mesh of intervening cells and neurons. They say this is because there are a subset...
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