The Skeptics Guide #892 - Aug 13 2022
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Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. Today is Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, and this is your host, Stephen Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella. Hey, everybody. Cara Santamaria. Howdy. Jay Novella.
Hey, guys.
And Evan Bernstein.
Good evening, folks. Good evening.
We have a full boat this week. I think it's been a little bit.
Yeah.
Just coming off of Nexus. Nexus. Yeah, we had a digital virtual Nexus this year. It was great. I just like that format better. We had way more people than we ever get in person. It's a lot cheaper for everybody. We can get speakers from around the world. You know, I know everyone misses Meetspace, but I think for a conference where it's just a lot of events where you have panels and discussions and interviews and and talks it's i think virtual is better and then um if we're going to get together a meat space we'll do other stuff we'll figure out more fun stuff that's more geared towards yeah let's have to do that like how are we going to get the vegans to a meat space thing do we need to rebrand this
I said it during Nexus. I think our next group thing that we do, we should go back to the Star Trek Museum. We could do that.
I know that Kara doesn't care. No, but I'll come. I'll come.
I still have the dress. The problem, Jay, is that for hanging out together after, outside of the awesome Star Trek sets, where do you go? I mean, it's kind of like – I mean, we haven't been in that area in, what, half a decade, more?
Well, we could rent a hotel space and we could do like a live show and then we could do a meet and greet and hang out that night. We could just have it be a big social day.
Or maybe we rent the whole Star Trek museum and then we just like play games and stuff in the museum.
Oh, my gosh. Will they let us do that?
Yeah. Wherever we do it, I think we need to just be open-minded about what we're going to do. Like having shows, extravaganza, play games, do music or whatever. Do stuff that's more fun, more casual, and have a lot of social interaction. That's what people want. They don't necessarily go to a conference so they could sit and listen to a lecture that they could listen at their leisure online and stop and pause and whatever. It's just a better way to consume information if that's what you're after. If you're after the social stuff, we'll do other stuff, more fun stuff, more social stuff.
Don't forget to include the drinking. Steve.
For some people, yeah.
That's spoken like a true college student. I love it. I just love it. This is the new way.
So don't people say, oh, I missed the end person conference. Yeah, but what do you miss about it? Do you miss sitting in a room with a bunch of people listening to talks? No, that's not why. You're doing that now in your living room. They miss the other stuff, right? So let's just give them that.
Mm-hmm. Yep. Let's do it. So don't forget, though, speaking about Nexus, if you didn't know, you could listen to Nexus. Actually, I think the last three Nexuses are still available if you're interested. But if you want to listen to this year's, if you buy tickets right now, if you go to necss.org. You could still listen to it. You have months or years to watch it. And I got to tell you, the keynote was particularly good this year. Like I was actually – like I listened to the full thing three times and there's more information I get out of it each time I listen to it because Bill Nye and David Copperfield had a really cool longer than an hour conversation with each other that went to a lot of different places.
Yeah, Jay. It was good. It was a lot of fun. The other thing was that this year, George said something to me when we were talking about the conference after we did it on Saturday. He's like, yeah, I just feel like we're giving people speakers that they haven't met before. It's not the same old, same old people. We're giving you brand new people that you've never heard from before. That's true. I really appreciate that because
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–21:54
2
What is the new U.S. Inflation Reduction Act approach to climate mitigation and why does it matter?
21:54–29:10
3
How does the bill use incentives (carrots) versus penalties (sticks) to drive green energy adoption?
29:10–39:23
4
What are the arguments about fossil fuel pricing, demand reduction, and industry incentives?
39:23–1:19:25
5
How were meteor breakup physics studied and what did the TC3 debris field reveal?
1:19:25–1:46:46