SoT 39: The Justin Bieber of Classical Music

Published: Jan. 8, 2012, 2:05 a.m.

Hosts:\xa0Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Adam vanLangenberg.

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NASA's GRAIL probes in orbit around the moon, hybrid sharks found off the coast of Australia, and can top violinists tell the difference between a US$1 million Stradivarius and a more modern concert-grade violin? Water can determine the spiciness of chillis, due to an evolutionary trade-off.

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Adam vanLangenberg is a high school maths teacher and writes for Subterranean Death Cult, a new pop culture blog. He was recently profiled for an article in The Age, about the Skeptical Society he's started at his school.