Skeptics Guide #1017

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe

Segment #1: Psychic Predictions 2024 Segment #2: News Items Item #1: Space Exploration in 2025 https://www.planetary.org/articles/calendar-of-space-events-2025?utm_s... Item #2: Most Likely Emerging Diseases https://theconversation.com/which-infectious-disease-is-likely-to-be-t... Item #3: Dark Energy May Not Exist https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/536/2/1752/7890815 Item #4: Bigfoot Deaths https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-portland-men-die-while-234906572.html Segment #3: Who's That Noisy Segment #4: Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Commonwealth Fusion Systems Question #2: In Memoriam Amended Daniel Dennett, Jimmy Carter Segment #5: Science or Fiction Item #1: Anguiculus dicaprioi, or DiCaprio’s Himalayan snake, was named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio because he helped discover the species while on safari. Item #2: A new species of clearwing moth, Carmenta brachyclados, was discovered in South Wales based upon a picture taken by an amateur and posted on Instragram then seen by an amateur lepidopterist. Item #3: Myloplus sauron is a new species of vegetarian piranha discovered in Brazil and named after Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Segment #6: Skeptical Quote of the Week “Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.” - Hedy Lamarr