Episode 078 prevaricates and pivots and ponders and pontificates and prints

...not really different from any other episode really, except for some slightly different words in slightly different order with slightly different meanings and inflections.

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00:04:30 Birthday Christian Sorensen Longomontanus
and Geo Helio Centricism yes I know that is spelled wrong

00:15:30 How do politicians avoid the question and do we care
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/03/162103368/how-politicians-get-away-with-dodging-the-question

00:37:10 New York Times on Retracted papers and fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/study-finds-fraud-is-widespread-in-retracted-scientific-papers.html

00:57:00 Lightning Round

And Harpo gets her digs in on Greg for ignoring her for a couple of hours.

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No big board so here is a picture of a selectively bred goldfish.
(found on http://www.thisblogrules.com/2011/01/bubble-eye-goldfish-the-funniest-fish-in-the-aquarium.html)