The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024
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Who are the hosts and guest introduced at the beginning of the episode?
You're listening to The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality. Hello and welcome to The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. Today is Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, and this is your host, Stephen Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella. Hey, everybody. Jay Novella. Hey, guys. And Andrea Jones Roy. Andrea, welcome back to the SGU. Thank you.
Thank you. It's always lovely to be here. Hi to all the novellas and novella fans.
You and the novella boys.
I'm just invading a family reunion at this point.
Yeah, basically. We had to record on Tuesday because we're going to Dallas later in the week for the Eclipse weekend thing. Kara's working tonight. She's literally working impatiently. Evan is tax season.
Tax season.
Right. Madness. Work until midnight every night. Yeah. And he's got to do extra work because he still had to carve out time for the eclipse, even though it was like worst possible time of the year. So you just have us tonight, Andrea.
I'll be playing the role of Evan and Kara at various points. I've been practicing my impressions.
Remember back in like the 80s and 90s? It's a very special episode of Blossom. Remember they used to say shit like that?
Blossom is a deep cut. Well done.
Oh, yeah. It's a deep cut. All right. Andrea, tell me something. Okay. How is my butcher knife in your kitchen doing?
It's doing just fine. It's missing its glory days of being on stage at Not A Con, and it is resigned currently to its sad fate of resting in a drawer, which is very depressing for everybody.
I don't like that at all. If it's not on the wall, I'm not happy.
No. I keep making the excuse, oh, we moved recently, so I haven't mounted it on the wall. We moved in May, which is nearly a year ago, but I just haven't found the time somehow to mount them to the wall, so... So the butcher knife and all its friends are sadly nestled away. I like to think of them as hibernating until their next time to shine, but yeah.
Well, you don't eat a lot of meat, so I guess you don't really need it.
I really, the Nauticon cooking show is probably the most use it ever got in its life, and I've had it for like seven years. We opened a coconut with it once, and otherwise I think I might put googly eyes on it for fun at some point.
Speaking of coconuts, I don't know if I ever told you guys this. Did I tell you that when I went to Hawaii that one of the places that we, you know, we rented Airbnbs, right? One of the houses had a coconut tree and I ate two coconuts off the tree that I pulled down myself. Did I tell you this? No. Yeah, like I had to get the, you know, the outer, what would you call that? The husk. The husk, yeah. That was not freaking easy at all. Yeah, right? I'm thinking like, did I burn more calories ripping this thing apart than I would get from eating the coconut, you know?
Yeah, if you saw Survivor, you'd know that.
But what I did was I roasted it. I made roasted coconut, and it was freaking amazing.
Like you roasted the meat that was on the inside?
Yeah, yeah. I took it out. I broke it into very, very small pieces, and then I roasted it in a pan, and it was like really, really flavorful, like awesome.
Wow.
Speaking of coconut, I went to Alaska last week. That's why I wasn't on the show. I was visiting my daughter, Ashley, and her boyfriend, Cormac, in Girdwood, Alaska. Alaska is amazing. It is so beautiful. Ashley works at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, and she is amazing. She takes care of bears, foxes, bison, eagles, and of course, as we all know in the family, Twix the porcupine. Such an adorable porcupine. But it's an amazing place. And Alaska is even more beautiful than I anticipated because when you're driving around in this time of year, there's snow-capped mountains everywhere you look. And it's mind-boggling how beautiful it was. I came back home to Connecticut and I'm driving around and I'm like, something is missing.
This place looks horrible because you look at the horizon. It's like I don't see anything, maybe tiny hills. But it was such – oh, man. I can't even imagine living there.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and guest introduced at the beginning of the episode?
0:00–33:11
2
What is the new silicon spike material and how does it kill viruses?
33:11–39:30
3
What is Havana Syndrome and what do investigations and MRI studies show?
39:30–52:17
4
How did solar eclipses in Qing Dynasty China influence peasant uprisings?
52:17–54:33
5
What evidence links historical eclipse paths to modern protest hotspots in China?
54:33–1:00:55
6
Could gravitational waves from neutron star collisions have supplied elements essential for life?
1:00:55–1:07:26
7
Why are humans evolutionarily prone to gullibility and how does it serve group coordination?
1:07:26–1:50:06