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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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3Why Didn't I Know This: First Portable Computer; News Items: Brightest Fast Radio Burst, Trash into Biochar, Declining Reading Rates, Most Americans Skeptical of Paranormal, Quantum Alternative to GPS; Who's That Noisy; From TikTok: Mammograms; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Using Fusion to Make Gold; News Items: Older Americans Using AI, Semi-Solid State EV, Ad Hominem Attacks Online, Non-Surgical LASIK, Now 3I-ATLAS is Glowing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and Emails: Elemental Drugs; Science or Fiction
News Items: Jim Lovell Dies at 97, Music Anhedonia, Lithium and Alzheimer's, CHAT GPT-5, Dangerous Worm Cleanse; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mini Nuclear Reactors; Who Am I; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Water from Air; News Items: Depleted Uranium Batteries, Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes, New Shroud of Turin Analysis, Web of Space; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Powder, Lab Leak; From TikTok: Lyme Lab Leak; Science or Fiction
From TikTok: More on 3I/Atlas and Aliens; News Items: Artery Calcium Scan, Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling, World's Largest Cargo Plane, Dental Floss Vaccine; Your Questions and E-mails: Apes Sign Language, Mama Cass; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Fossil Words; News Items: New Supermaterial, Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis, Belly Fat Jab, Hormone Therapy, Death by Haunted Doll; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Weird Exoplanet; News Items: Voyager Thrusters Brought Back to Life, Space Tourism, Global Temperature and Ice Sheet Melting, Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most Powerful Solar Storm; Your Questions and E-mails: EV Charging, Off the Hook; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Word of the Week: Orthomolecular; News Items: Ban Left Turns, Bird Flu Shenanigans, Interstellar Comet, Artificial Blood, Beekeeping Benefits; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Tech Support; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Quantum Electronics; News Items: AI Research Collaborators, AI Carbon Footprint, Curing Deafness, Food Myths, AI Enzyme Engineering; Who's That Noisy; Why Didn't I Know This: The Great Attractor; Your Questions and E-mails: Why Scientists Fall for Woo; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Eco; News Items: Vaccinating the World, How Children vs AI Acquire Language, Vera Rubin Observatory, Visible Nova, Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Justin Daab; From TikTok: Mysterious Moon; News Items: Scopes 100 Year Anniversary, Smells and Hunger, GMOs May Save Florida Citrus, Black Hole Supercollider, Antarctica Radio Pulses; Special Report: Does AI Think?; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Premium Water; News Items: NASA Budget, RFK Jr Sacks Vaccine Panel, Digital Life After Death, Light Out of Nothing, Possible New Treatment for HIV; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replicating Eratosthenes; Science or Fiction
Interview with Emily Schoerning; Quickie with Bob: Prepping for Q-Day; News Items: Seed Oils, Lead into Gold, American Lysenkoism, The Screwworm is Coming, Galactic Collision; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dream Learning; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Global Warming and Ocean Currents; News Items: Infrared Contact Lenses, Trees Respond to Solar Eclipse, Affective Polarization, The Brain's Motor Switchboard, New Dwarf Planet Candidate; Discussion: The Effect of Science Fiction; Your Questions and E-mails: HHS Cancels Vaccine Contract; Science or Fiction
Live from NotACon with Guest Rogue Adam Russell; News Items: New Cambrian Fossil, Best Archaeopteryx Specimen, Chimps Using First Aid, Treatment for Baldness, New Color - Olo, The Next Theranos, Bespoke Genetic Therapy; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Word of the Week: Moxibustion; News Items: Cold Plunges, The End of Life, Floating Nuclear Power, Visualizing Special Relativity, Brainspotting Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics of Pig Hearts, Are Flat Earthers Real; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Fusion Rockets; News Items: Falling Space Debris, What Makes People Flourish, Pig Heart Xenografts, Chiropractic Stroke, Breathable Algae Drug Delivery; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Faster Than Light Expansion, Autism Self-Diagnosis; Science or Fiction
Interview with Melanie Trecek-King; News Items: Internet Fakes and Violence, Lab Grown Teeth, RFK On Autism, AI Designed Instruments; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Big Bang Miracle; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Game Transfer Phenomenon; Geoengineering, Biosignature Candidate, Skull Rock on Mars; Commercial Perovskite Solar Panels; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Another Unified Theory; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone; News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Separate the Art from the Artists, Does the Moon Rotate; Science or Fiction
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I’ve seen these strokes at least 10 times in my 20 year career. It has GOT to be more than they are saying. It’s almost all young women and it’s a terrible avoidable situation.
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anyone else having a problem playing this one?
5 star. I've been listening to SGU for the past 4 or so years and still look forward to each new episode. The rouges have helped me to think critically, question the popular and get excited about science.
As a scientist I'm horrified to hear you discuss telepathy like this. You need to do more than read the transcript of one podcast episode. I actually can't believe I have to say that. Please educate yourself using critical thinking before telling us your opinion. You say outliers/anomalies need to be leaned into, yet when the outlying/anomalous population finally get a platform to show their single blind studies where p<.05 and p<.001 you use outdated ableist standards to publicly dismiss them.
this episode is very very old
A tsunami is NOT a weather event. Also - it's supposed to be "extreme heat" in Queensland today with the top temperature being 34C which is NORMAL for summer in Queensland. 🤦♀️
Does anyone else think that Steve and Cara carry this show and that the others are a bit silly?
Terrifying.
I have been listening for over 10 years and love every episode. Love how if they do get something wrong, they are happy admit it in the next episode and update with what is correct.
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The Cass review was undertaken by "Experts" in the field over a long period of time. It also looked at how pubity blockers have been used.... They are not good or bad.... The point Feelings are now valid, then you open the door to Eugenics, Homeopathy and many other non scientific. There is already a category for these people DSD... They are not men or women.... The review was directed at the whole system being used. you focused on one small part.
The DC argument... DC requires way more insulation and current breaking capacity. At lower voltage it's actually much more dangerous, it's possible for a DC fault to not trip the protection until a lot of damage has been done, where the wave point of 0v, of an AC supply allows very accurate and swift circuit breaking. DC was used and is used on tram systems today, the DC motors run better. its not an issue of hard to change, it's safety in the transmission system.
Mocking or dismissing someone's beliefs is not part of being the good people. I myself is an avoid atheist but would never dismiss someone's beliefs. I also note it was not just Christians who took offence at this. many complaints were about the child on the stage with a man dressed in a sexual manner next to them. If you have ever seen a drag show you can not separate drag from sexual ideology. Also Steve hit the nail, deniable plausibility. its nieve to believe nobody in production noticed.
I look forward to next week's response, to the idiotic emails this episode will induce
Ah yes...another Saturday in reality...TY SGU!
it would be great if the episode title listed the topics discussed so it's searchable. I'm looking for CMB radiation, big bang, expansion of the universe/dark energy, etc., just in case anyone can point me to an appropriate episode 😅
More everyday...this really IS my escape to reality...thanks for your years of hard work
I see vertebral artery dissections at least once a year from neck manipulation.
What about Indigenois folks who are having their seeds stolen and patented by big companies and then can’t plant their ancestral crops anymore?