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The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Accelerating Universe and the Bacterial Genome

Jay Parini: Why would the maternal mortality rate more than double in between these 20 years 1999 to 2019 right across every parent demographic you can think of? It seems like Jay said, it's like counterintuitive doesn't mean it's wrong. But all right, I'm moving on to the second one. So the distant quasars five times slower than it does today. All right. If the universe is expanding and accelerating due to dark matter, not dark energy dark matter. Perhaps it could have been because we would be pretty far along 13 billion years later in as things do accelerate faster. And then I don't know this last one, bacterial cells with a minimized genome. Oh my

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