Jelena and Pontus take over while András is off to Italy for the week. We talk about a planet that was not there, access to scientific journals, religion in the Netherlands, the new Ebola vaccine, IT power consumption and how it is the season for detox scams. Plus the Sunk-cost fallacy and why Greenpeace is really wrong about GMO.
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What’s On in Europe?; What’s Hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacy; Really Wrong; Quote
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
00:00:28
Greetings & feedback
00:07:48
On This Day: 2nd January
2 January 1860 – The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) announced the discovery of the planet Vulcan, orbiting between Mercury and the Sun. Later the planet turned out not to exist.
- Vulcan on Wikipedia
- National Geographic: The Hunt for Vulcan, the Planet That Wasn’t There
00:14:47
What’s on in Europe?
Check out our “Events in Europe” calendar!
00:16:31
Hot in Europe
- Thousands of German researchers set to lose access to Elsevier journals
- 50% officially not religious in the Netherlands
- Successful Ebola vaccine will be fast-tracked for use
- New studies show world IT is consuming less power
- Here’s where they cool your Likes (in Swedish)
- Have yourself a merry little detox
- Edzard Ernst: Have yourself a merry little detox
00:37:43
Logical Fallacy: Sunk-Cost Fallacy
00:41:01
Really Wrong:
Greenpeace for their position on GMO
- https://www.biofortified.org/2016/07/110-nobel-laureates-greenpeace-gmos/
- http://www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/nobelpristagaren-motstandet-mot-gmo-leder-till-att-barn-dor/ (in Swedish)
00:49:02
Quote
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
/Leonardo da Vinci/
00:50:42
Outro
00:51:55
Out-takes