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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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5Interview with Brian Cox; Quickie with Bob: Superheavy Element Chemistry; News Items: Biogenome Project, Ancient Solar Magnetic Field, MAHA, Miranda Ocean, Club 27 Myth; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Predicting Earthquakes; News Items: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer, Gold from Earthquakes, Plastic in the Brain, Quantum Neural Network, Marmosets have Names; Your questions and E-mails: Beetles; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Annular; News Items: Europa Clipper, Illusion of Information Adequacy, Seeding the Atmosphere, Exomoon, Psychology of Scare; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replaceable Batteries; Science or Fiction
Interview with Christian Hubicki; From TikTok: Fake Spacestation; News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Myopia; Science or Fiction
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Dumbest Thing of the Week: Loch Ness Sonar; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Fruit Fly Connectome, Shroud of Turin Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Cars; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Check out Surfshark https://surfshark.com/sgu, Quickie with Bob: Lunar Mantle Partially Molten; News Items: Heart Function in Space, Schizophrenia Drug, Wood Vaulting, AI Finds Nazca Lines, LISA Gravitational Telescope; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Religious Skepticism; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Roy; What's the Word: Pitch; News Items: Crystal Genome Storage, How Reliable are Political Forecasts, Myopia Epidemic, Biotwang Explained; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
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Quickie with Steve: Minimoon; News Items: Dead Internet Theory, Classroom CRISPR, CAM Market, ADHD Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Changing Names, Net Metering and Residential Solar; Science or Fiction
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News Items: Embryo Models, Carbon Fiber Battery, Zeta Class Supercomputer, UFOs as a Societal Problem; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Residential Solar; Science or Fiction
SGU Celebrates 1000 Episodes; A Skeptical Retrospective: Global Warming, Solar Panels, Cold and Hot Fusion, Medical Quackery, UFOs; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Bunk; News Items: Starliner Update, Therapeutic Roleplaying, The Search for Gravitons, Dinosaur Footprints, Schools vs Cell Phones; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Killing Mammoths; News Items: Water on Exoplanets, Mpox, Darkling Beetles, Moon Gravity Assist, Luminescent Solar Concentrators; Who's That Noisy; From Tik Tok: The Sage Wall; Science or Fiction
Election Scams; News Items: Childhood Vaccines, Alien Solar Panels, Stuck in the ISS, Framing and Global Warming, Promoting Homeopathy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Forrest Valkai; News Items: Mark Edward, Moon Deep Storage, Pursuit of Happiness, Measuring Blood Pressure, First Complex Life on Earth, Life on Venus Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AC vs DC; Science or Fiction
OIympic Controversy; News Items: Progeria Treatment, Solid State Battery, The Cass Review, Mammoth DNA; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Bacterial Flagellum; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Calculus; News Items: Water Harvesting, Chimp Communication, Dark Oxygen, Nuclear Clocks, Creationism Survey; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Logic of God; Science or Fiction
Conspiracy Theories; News Items: Lunar Cave, AI Love, AI Scams, Solar Clams; From TikTok: Antimony and Air Fryers; Your Questions and E-mails: Judith Curry; Science or Fiction
Robot Suicide; News Items: Mars Settlement Simulation, HIV Prevention, COVID Protection Gene, Nuclear Pasta, Eyeball Planet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Water; Science or Fiction
Simulating Black Holes; News Items: DNA Nano Killbot, Bionic Leg, Neanderthal with Downs, Festival Fail, Kugelblitz Black Holes; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Multivitamin Supplements; News Items: GOES-U Satellites, Risks of Cannabis, Improved Enzymes, Geopathic Stress, Using AI to Predict Alzheimer's; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Pattern App, Processing Grief; Science or Fiction
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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?
The hosts need to be more careful about not spreading misinformation.
Been listening for almost 20 years. its one of the best and most interesting science podcasts out there. highly recommend it!
My favourite science podcast. Essential listening for anyone wanting to beat back the ignorance & superstition surrounding all of us. Keep it up Skeptics!
The section on electrical wires way off the mark. cadmium copper conductors, is not twice the capacity as aluminium. they don't all have 3 wires, that's High Voltage, low voltage has 4 in most of the world. etc etc
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?