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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org
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4Live from Dallas with special guest Dustin Bates of Starset; Eclipse Science; News Items: AI Designed Drugs, AI Music, Music Getting Simpler, Aphantasia Spectrum, Nova and Comet Compete with Eclipse; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Rooy; Quickie with Bob: Silicon Spikes; News Items: Havana Syndrome, Robo Taxis in New York, Rebellions - Cultural Memory - and Eclipses, Gravitational Waves and Human Life; Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution of Gullibility; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
AI Created Music; News Items: Sweetened Drinks and Atrial Fibrillation, One Degree, Birth Control Misinformation, Iridology; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mel's Mystery Hole, Positive Thinking; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission; Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR; News Items: Starship's Third Launch, Extinct Flu Virus, Keeping Voyager 1 Going, Death by Exorcism, Energy Demand Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fighting Lions; Science or Fiction
Tax Scams; News Items: Pentagon UFO Report, Microplastic Risks, Parasite Cleanse, Gut Microbe Communication, Interstellar Meteorite; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thou, Mach Effect Drive; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Colliding Neutron Stars; News Items: Sinking Cities, Hypervaccination, Conspiracy Theories and Disease X, Celebrities and Flat Earth, Superconducting Magnets and Fusion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: IVF, Moon's Orbit; Science or Fiction
News Items: First Private Landing on the Moon, Sex Difference in the Brain, Bee Venom for Breast Cancer, Learning Empathy, Brightest Object; jWho's That Noisy; Quotation Game; Your Question and E-mails: Correction; Science or Fiction
Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists; News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and Looksmaxxing, Titan Uninhabitable; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob - Metalenses; News Items: Flow Batteries, Green Roofs, LEGO MRI scanner, The Future Circular Collider, Mayo Clinic and Reiki; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Cardinal; News Items: New Virus-Like Microbes Found, SLIM Lunar Lander, Misinformation and Wellness Influencers, Super Earth in Habitable Zone, Climate Change and Storms; Who's That Noisy, Name That Logical Fallacy, Science or Fiction
Interview with Dustin Bates of Starset; News Items: Neuralink Implant, Love on the Brain, Amelia Earhart Plane Evidence, Hiding Sickness, Cicada Double Brood; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Moon Timeline, Long Acting Insulin; Science or Fiction
Swindler's List: Deep Fake Robot Call; News Item: Oxygen Bottleneck, NASA Opens Osiris Rex Canister, Learning and Longevity, DNA Directed Assembly, Bleach Peddler Sentenced; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Batteries; Science or Fiction
Interview with Robert Sapolsky; News Items: Betavolt 50 Year Battery, Moon Landing Delayed, Cloned Monkeys, Converting CO2 into Carbon Nanofibers, Bad Fen Shui; Who's That Noisy; From TikTok: Jellyfish UFO; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week; News Items: Dual Sympathetic Response, Peregrine Moon Mission, Solar Eclipse, Boy Beats Tetris; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dimensional Weight; Science or Fiction
Psychic Predictions for 2023 and Rogue Predictions for 2024; News Items: Dosing Gene Expression, Solar Tower, Alzheimer's Virus, Quark Matter, Scientology RICO; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
2023 Year in Review; Best Science of the Year; Best SGU Moments; Best Interviews; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of the Year; In Memorium; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Eli Bosnick; Quickie with Steve: Iron Spheres are Terrestrial; News Items: Lunar Roads, Misinformation vs Disinformation, Gravitational Waves As Fast As Light, Fluoride and IQ, Dark GPT; Skeptics and Paranormal Experiences; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jessica McCabe of How to ADHD; Special Segment: Zelle Scams; News Items: Neuromorphic Supercomputer, Sodium Ion Batteries, Lab Grown Coffee, Lunar Anthropocene; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nazi Synthetic Fuel; Who Said That; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Ceramic Storage; News Items: Quantum Gravity, X-Prize for Health Span, ECT Effects on the Brain, Building New Materials with AI and Robots; From Tik Tok: Electric Car Without Charging; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Internet Use and Mental Health, Methane Capture, Bitter Revenge, Underground Microbes, PopSci Magazine Closes; Quickie with Steve: LK-99 Debunked; Who's That Noisy, Question and E-mails: Dr. GPT; Science or Fiction
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Texas deserves the bad eclipse weather.
Empathy. I was interested to hear the enthusiasm for the concepts, that empathy can be learnt. Do the only evidence is, people saying that they feel more empethetic after watching a video. Start with an assumption, and don't challenge it.
just watching "What is wrong with TicTok" on YouTube. what happened to be respectful, you don't persuade anyone by mocking them.... Also "They", and all the swearing.... its sounding no different to all the other biased podcasts/tubes... keep out of abortion, it's by default a moral choice, not a scientific choice. You can't talk about a "woman's choice" and back it up with talk of nervous systems, it doesn't matter to the woman if it has a nervous system. And the swearing from Jay....the hate.
How about we don’t celebrate the mess that is Texas where some of us are not safe?
OMG the crickets!! 🤢
I wish companies would stop supporting Texas by having events there. Demonstrates privilege for sure.
You know what's nerdier than Larping? finishing this incredibly boring episode.
Scrubs is the most lifelike medical show.
Cis Hetero privilege. Hey, everyone! Let’s go to Texas!! Oh and happy pride! Yeah, no thanks.
One of the worst science base shows out there. Full of politics. Don't bother. There is way better skeptics and science based content out there. Bunch of hacks.
“Ya’ll” is an important way to de-gender language.
Thank you Cara for sticking up for Indigenous Folks.
01:25:35 - It's a shame that the name of the feed reader didn't make it into the episode. Seems like a handy tool.
This is from last week? The audio is from the 15th one, same Alex Jones conversion.
this appears to be an error as the recording is episode 898
fuck nfts
best episode I've heard ..discourse between Steve and Cara following article on decision making ...absolute gold. Thank you.
Something went wrong. Only the first two minutes available.
Bruh why is it 2 minutes? lol.
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