The Skeptic Wire Episode 058

This Week: Intro: 00:02:35 Birthday Herman Webster Mudgett 00:07:55 Porn makes healthy women go blind? 00:17:42 Religion makes your brain shrink? 00:26:20 Paleo diet 00:47:22 Rats given frustose have memory problems 00:51:32 The only gay in the Neolithic village? 00:56:20 Lesbian Catholic High School students hold their own prom 01:02:30 Lightning Round NASA Renovating the VAB http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/vabrefurbishment_prt.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/05/14/meet-shiri-the-freakishly-realistic-robotic-buttocks/ http://www.godhatesfags.com/schedule.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html http://www.examiner.com/article/everyone-draw-mohammed-day-takes-to-twitter And the dogs try to make suggestions about how and what to record but we humans cannot understand them because, hey, they're dogs and we do not comprehend their language of panting, licking, barking, and the occassional gassy emission. Find the songs at: http://www.soundcloud.com/skepticwire Follow the blog at: http://skepticwire.blogspot.com Follow on twitter: @theskepticwire Write us at: [email protected] Subscribe via Feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/SkepticWire Friend us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SkepticWire Subscribe on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-skeptic-wire/id434251897 Check out the music on Soundcloud http://www.soundcloud.com/skepticwire ...leave a review, if you are so inclined!