The Skeptics Guide #836 - Jul 17 2021
COVID Update: Vaccine Booster; News Items: Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Rogue Planets, Space Tourism, Hydroponic Farming; Your Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic Wine; Science or Fiction
Jul 17, 2021
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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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The Skeptics Guide #835 - Jul 10 2021
What's the Word: Osculant; News Items: FDA Approval of Aducanumab, New Kind of Supernova, Icelandia, Shorter Work Week; Your Questions and E-mails: Faith vs Belief; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Jul 10, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #834 - Jul 3 2021
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Pioneers in Deep Sea Bathyspheric observations; News Items: Noisy Thinking, T-Rex Teens, Video Games and Mental Health, Forming the Milky Way, Dowsing Again; Science or Fictions; Live Questions
Jul 03, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #833 - Jun 26 2021
COVID Update: Delta Variant; News Items: Detecting Life, Update on Space Launch System, Brain Implant for Pain, Pupil Size and Intelligence; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Food from Air; Science or Fiction
Jun 26, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #832 - Jun 19 2021
News Items: Bad Science Reporting, Protecting Climate and Species, COVID Pseudoscience in Brazil, Night Vision Glasses, Homeopathic Overdose; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy
Jun 19, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #831 - Jun 12 2021
What's The Word: Operculum; News Items: Regeneration, Social Media and Memories, 3D Printing Reusable Rockets, Mental Illness and Mass Shootings, Magnetized by Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Wow Signal; Science or Fiction
Jun 12, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #830 - Jun 5 2021
Lab Leak Theory Revisited; News Items: Minimize Left Turns, Replacing Enamel, Graphene Aluminum Ion Batteries, Bee Venom Therapy Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Left Brain - Right Brain; Science or Fiction
Jun 05, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #829 - May 29 2021
Interview with Mick West; News Items: Non-Replicated Studies Cited More, Maximum Human Lifespan, Graphene Concrete, Atomic Level Microscope, Brain Game Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
May 29, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #828 - May 22 2021
COVID Update; News Items: Butt Breathing, Bullshit and Intelligence, Brightest Cosmic Light, UFOs Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Excited Delirium; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
May 22, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021
Interview with Julia Galef; News Items: Brain Implant Interprets Writing, SARS-CoV-2 May Enter Genome, Hypersonic Jets, Sequestering Carbon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Energy Density; Science or Fiction
May 15, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #826 - May 8 2021
Interview with Andy Weir; SGU 16 years; News Items: Electric Planes, Website Diversity, Evolution of Multicellularity, NASA Solar Probe, Chinese Space Program; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
May 08, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #825 - May 1 2021
Correcting Lord Kelvin; News Items: Miracle Bleach Peddler Indicted, Michael Collins, Life on Mars, Political Polarization, Brood X; Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Human Intelligence; Science or Fiction
May 01, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #824 - Apr 24 2021
COVID Update; News Items: Lunar Lander Chosen, Nuclear Fallout, Viral Vector Gene Therapy, Predicting the next Pandemic, FRBs and the Expansion of the Universe; Your Questions and E-mails: Why is North Up?; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Apr 24, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #823 - Apr 17 2021
COVID Vaccine Update; News Items: Possible New Force, CRISPRoff, US Power Half Way to Zero Carbon, Sea Meadows Carbon Sink, Pharoah's Curse; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Apr 17, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #822 - Apr 10 2021
Interview with Iszi Lawrence; News Items: Yawning Lions, Air DNA, Oxygenation Events, Infection Proof Implants, Aliens Friend of Foe; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Apr 10, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #821 - Apr 3 2021
What's the Word: Phenotype; News Items: Satellites and Light Pollution, Heart Size and Space Travel, Self-Replicating Synthetic Cells, Why No Lyme Vaccine, Origins of SARS-CoV-2; Quickie with Evan: New Atomic Clocks; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Avi Loeb; Science or Fiction
Apr 03, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #820 - Mar 27 2021
News Items: Vaccine Hesitancy, Ocean Worlds, Oumuamua Explained, More Dead Sea Scrolls; Your Questions and E-mails: Dark Matter Debunked?; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Mar 27, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #819 - Mar 20 2021
Your Number's Up: Pi; News Items: Landing on the Moon, Seeing Thylacines, Losing Yourself, Reading for Fun; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Geert Vanden Bossche, Power vs Energy; Science or Fiction
Mar 20, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #818 - Mar 13 2021
COVID Update; News Items: Vaccines Prevent Spread, Cave of Dog Evolution, Batteries on the Rise, AI Tech Gap, Nearby Superearth, Sea Slug Self-Decapitation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mechanical Turk; Science or Fiction
Mar 13, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #817 - Mar 6 2021
News Items: Moxie on Mars, Megafauna Extinction, Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere, When to End a Conversation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: TMS and Depression; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Mar 06, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #816 - Feb 27 2021
Interview with Philip Goff; What's the Word: Percolation; News Items: Perseverance, Communicating While Dreaming, Phage Viruses and Antibiotics, Good the Pandemic; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Feb 27, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #815 - Feb 20 2021
Cold Snap in Texas; News Items: American Megafauna Extinction, The Fifth Dimension, Bird's Magnetic World, Pentagon UFO Wreckage; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Police and Lie Detection, Saunas and Sweat; Science or Fiction
Feb 20, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #814 - Feb 13 2021
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Lie Detectors, Sauna Detox, Black Hole Energy Extraction, Hearing Dead People; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Availability Heuristic; Science or Fiction
Feb 13, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #813 - Feb 6 2021
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rita Levi-Montalcini; News Items: Dunning Kruger Validity, Junk on the Moon, Protein Switches, Bipolar Ionization; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Multiverse Revisited, Compliment Sandwich; Science or Fiction
Feb 06, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #812 - Jan 30 2021
12 SGU Live Stream; News Items: Streaming Carbon Footprint, Assassin Bug Fossil, Stealing Monkeys; Special Report: Solar Gravitational Lens Astronomy; Is It True; Science or Fiction
Jan 30, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #811 - Jan 23 2021
News Items: Number of Galaxies in the Universe, Logic of the Multiverse, Protecting Lunar Artifacts, Masking After Vaccine, CIA UFO Disclosure; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Q-Anon and Game Design; Science or Fiction
Jan 22, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #810 - Jan 16 2021
Interview with Phil McAlister from NASA; What's the Word: Degenerate; News Items: Graphene Superconductors, Controlling Superintelligent Machines, Scalar Energy Scam; Who's That Noisy; Your questions and E-mails: Learning Styles,; Science or Fiction
Jan 16, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #809 - Jan 9 2021
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Canyons on Mars, Ethics of Brain-Machine-Interface, Belief in Learning Styles, Ravens and Ape Intelligence; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pornstar Names and Security; Science or Fiction
Jan 09, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #808 - Jan 2 2021
Psychic Predictions; News Items: New SARS-CoV-2 Variant, Satellites Made From Wood, Quantum Computing Advance; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Jan 02, 2021
The Skeptics Guide #807 - Dec 26 2020
SGU 2020 Year in Review; Best Science News Items and Pseudoscience of the Year; Favorite SGU Moments; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
Dec 26, 2020
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