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Weekly science podcast produced by the New England Skeptical Society. Also provides blogs, forums, videos and resources.

The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC – dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #484 October 15th, 2014

Segment #1. This Day in Skepticism

October 18, 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

Segment #2. News Items

News Item #1 – AWARE NDE Study https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/aware-results-finally-published-no-evidence-of-nde/

News Item #2 – Life on Mars https://news.yahoo.com/humans-may-only-survive-68-days-mars-220955518.html https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/technical-feasibility-mars-one-1014

News Item #3 – E-Cat Cold Fusion https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/e-cat-cold-fusion-claims-are-back/ https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2014/october/141015ae_lockheed-martin-pursuing-compact-nucelar-fusion.html

News Item #4 – Crocodilians https://www.theskepticsguide.org/crocodilians-even-more-awesomer-than-you-think

News Item #5 – Sciencey https://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/OP/trivial_graph

News Item #6 – Psychic Sally Morgan Follow Up https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/psychic-sally-morgan-sacks-husband-after-film-catches-antigay-attack-on-critic-9792274.html

Segment #3. Who's That Noisy

Answer to last week: Moth Caterpillar

Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails

Question #1: Corrections Lewis and Clark Nobel in Medicine

Question #2: Ebola Hype If this is something that you've already covered and I've simply forgotten then please forgive me. I've heard that the ebola virus–while dangerous–is not spread by casual contact and is not nearly as easy to spread as the flu. This being the case, it seems to me that the media's hype about the threat of ebola in the United States is disproportionate to its actual threat (at least in terms of its ability to spread.) Thanks for any information you can offer, Dave Satterlee Lindenwold, NJ