Three Potential New Dwarf Planets Discovered Near Pluto By Alasdair Wilkins
Iio9.com
‘Fossil eel’ squirms into the record books
PhysOrg.com
Sunspot predictions now as accurate as your local weather report By Tim Barribeau
io9.com
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NASA launches spacecraft on 5-year trip to Jupiter
Physorg.com
The huge rhino fossil that inspired Ancient Greek myths by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
Tree DNA tests prove that Benjamin Franklin isn’t ruining the Gulf Coast by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
Daunting space task — send astronauts to asteroid By SETH BORENSTEIN
PhysOrg.com
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This is your brain on androids by Kate Melville
ScienceAGoGo.com
Birds are the first non-human animals to use grammar by Alasdair Wilkins
i09.com
The Universe may have been born spinning.
PhysOrg.com
Big dinos were about as warm as people, study finds
World-Science.net
Symphony Of Science
SymphonyOfScience.com
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Cosmic Pluralism: How Christianity briefly conquered the solar system by Alasdair Wilkins
i09.com
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Episode 23
Astronomer discovers strange new planets that don’t orbit stars by Esther Inglis-Arkell
io9.com
Supernova Sonata – Music of the (Exploding) Spheres
YouTube.com
Bacteria make rain, bioprecipitation researchers say by Kate Melville
ScienceAGoGo.com
The Earth’s core melts and freezes all at the same time by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
Parts of moon interior contains as much water as Earth’s upper mantle
PhysOrg.com
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8 Animal Myths Dispelled
MisconceptionJunction.com
Why space shuttle fleet is retiring, what’s next By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer
PhysOrg.com
How flies land on ceilings
TodayIFoundOut.com
When science proves the painfully obvious by Esther Inglis-Arkell
io9.com
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Comet Elenin: Preview of a coming attraction
PhysOrg.com
In 1899 Ninety Percent of New York City’s Taxi Cabs Were Electric Vehicles
TodayIFoundOut.com
Why Bathing Was Uncommon in Medieval Europe
TodayIFoundOut.com
Meet “Old Gray Guy,” the interloper who saved the wolves of Lake Superior by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
The supposedly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker might be back from the dead by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
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The Weirdest Animal Expert Who Ever Lived by Alasdair Wilkins
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Were the Rocky Mountains sucked out of the ground? by Alasdair Wilkins
i09.com
Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth’s mantle
PhysOrg.com
Stone tools shaped the evolution of our hands. by Alasdair Wilkins
i09.com
NASA proposes laser use to move space junk
PhysOrg.com
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New parasitic fungi found that turn ants into zombies
PhysOrg.com
When coconut trees attack . . . other trees by Annalee Newitz
io9.com
Why stupidity can be the smartest survival strategy by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
South African Earthworms Can Grow as Large as 22 Feet Long
TodayIFoundOut.com
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Meet the fastest, deadliest carnivore in the plant kingdom by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
Bladderwort Video: Bladderwort
How humanity survived for 8000 years on the most extreme islands on Earth by Alasdair Wilkins
io9.com
In 1842, Ada Lovelace Wrote the World’s First Computer Program
TodayIFoundOut.com
The world’s oldest water?
PhysOrg.com
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Scientists are using sheep to decontaminate TNT-tainted land
io9.com
7 scientific accidents that led to world-changing discoveries
io9.com
Rewrite the textbooks: Findings challenge conventional wisdom of how neurons operate
PhysOrg.com
No, a pole shift won’t cause global superstorms by Phil Plait PH.D
BadAstronomy
How Pliny the elder died
TodayIFoundOut.com
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Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia, and those who sacrifice for the stars by Phil Plait
Bad Astronomy
Scientists aim to bring mammoth back to life
PhysOrg.com
Researchers find smoking gun of world’s biggest extinction
PhysOrg.com
Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider
PhysOrg.com
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Ghost of Carl Sagan, 2500 year old beer recipe, Galaxy X, Shackleton’s Whiskey
Carl Sagan’s Ghost
roryandcraig of Youtube
Galaxy X by Alastair Wilkins
io9.com
2500 year old beer
physorg.com
Shackleton’s 100 year old whiskey found By Esther Inglis-Arkell
io9.com
Follow me on Twitter – rationofreason
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A POINT FIVE episode – Matt analyzes extraordinary claims
Richard C Hoagland’s glass domes on the moon
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Phil Plait examines the claim that alien spacecrafts are due to arrive in December 2012
Alasdair Wilkins gives us a brief history of the Homo genus while examining the claim that 400,000 year old modern human teeth have been found in a cave in Israel.
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Ep. 12: An Unsung Genius, Asteroid Fields, Visual Perception
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Ep. 11: Dung Twigs: A Christmas Tradition? How to Catch A Runaway Astronaut, Mega-Mammals
Show Notes
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The crazy life and death of astronomer Tycho Brahe, Mono Lake’s strange bacteria, cockroaches won’t survive an extreme nuclear war
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Ep. 9: Elegant Physics Of Cat Lapping, Carl Sagan And Nuking The Moon, A Squidworm?
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Ep. 8: A Few Dozen Lemmings On A Lazy Susan, Cats Have A Low Terminal Velocity, Microbes Battle With Poison-Tipped Swords, Wolf’s Howls & Duck’s Quacks
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Ep. 7: Narwhals, Berzerker Terror Bird, A Banana Equivalent Dose, Bubbles In The Milky Way
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Ep. 6: Ancient Aliens? Ancient Robot Pigeons! Turkey Alone Doesn’t Make You Drowsy
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Ep. 5: Philosoraptor? Arctic Shipping Impacts, Dogs Go Round and Round, Dead Zone Predator
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Ep. 4: Ostriches Don’t… Most Important Human Adaptation and One-Way Mars Missions
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Ep. 3: Why lobsters turn red when cooked, cooking up life may not require a soup recipe and societal evolution
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Ep. 2: Woodpecker Tongues, Turtles in Decline and Psychological myths
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