Episode #1040

Episode #1040 - June 14th, 2025

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

Episode #1039 - June 7th, 2025

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

Episode #1038 - May 31st, 2025

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

Episode #1037 - May 24th, 2025

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

Episode #1036 - May 17th, 2025

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

Episode #1035 - May 10th, 2025

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

Episode #1034 - May 3rd, 2025

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

Episode #1033 - April 26th, 2025

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

Episode #1032 - April 19th, 2025

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

Episode #1031 - April 12th, 2025

TikTok Flat Earthers
News Items: De-extincting the Dire Wolf, What Experts Think About AI, Planned Obsolescence, VR Touch Sensory
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: SNPs vs Sequencing
Science or Fiction

Episode #1030 - April 5th, 2025

What's the Word: enantiodromia
News Items: AI Protein Sequencing, Solving the Bat Cocktail Party Problem, The Extremely Large Telescope, CIA and the Ark of the Covenant, 23&Me Selling Personal Data
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: RFK Jr and Vaccines, Counterintuitive Math Problem
Science or Fiction

Episode #1029 - March 29th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Extinction Survivors
News Items: Constructed Languages, Exercise and Brain Health, Curiosity Rover Finds Long Carbon Chains, Nanotech Lightsails, Vaccine and Autism Again
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Technology vs Magic
Science or Fiction

Episode #1028 - March 22nd, 2025

Interview with Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello
News Items: NASA Delays Artemis, Punishing AI, Hybrid Bionic Hand, Pettawatt Electron Beam
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Rewriting Physics
Science or Fiction

Episode #1027 - March 15th, 2025

Interview with Professor Dave
What's the Word: Psionic
News Items: Screen Time and Mental Health, Exposure to Mass Shootings, Stem Cells for Parkinson's, Brown Fat and Exercise
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Vitamin A and Measles
Science or Fiction

Episode #1026 - March 8th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Atlantic Shutdown
News Items: Measles Outbreak, Reintroducing Wolves, TIGR-Tas Gene Editing, Blood Donor Who Saved Millions Dies, Star Mergers
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Intricate Web of Civilization
Science or Fiction

Episode #1025 - March 1st, 2025

Interview with Adam Russell
News Items: Congestion Pricing, AI Therapists, Redefining Dyslexia, Small Modular Reactors for Cargo Ships
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1024 - February 22nd, 2025

News Items: Bird Brains, Indoor Air Quality, Abortions and Infant Mortality, Black Holes Without Singularities, Banning Chemtrails
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Asteroid Hitting the Moon
Swindler's List: Tax Scams
Science or Fiction

Episode #1023 - February 15th, 2025

News Items: Demographics of Misinformation, The Toll of Fake Research, Dangerous Street Drugs, Nearby Habitable Zone Exoplanet, Reverse Engineering Alien Technology<'br>Who's That Noisy
Science Quiz
Your Questions and E-mails: Starlink Reentries
Science or Fiction

Episode #1022 - February 8th, 2025

Quickie With Bob: Using Nukes to Deflect Asteroids
News Items: Near Earth Asteroid Threat, Does the Internet Affect Our Memory, Growing City Rat Problem, Do Apes Have a Theory of Mind, NASA Astronauts Harassed by Aliens
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1021 - February 1st, 2025

What's the Word: Geyser
News Items: Self Replicating AI, DeepSeek, PEPFAR Freeze, Chemical Looping, Giant Clams and Tiny Algae
Who's That Noisy
You Questions and E-mails: Telepathy Tapes
Science or Fiction

Episode #1020 - January 25th, 2025

Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Rooy
News Items: Unexpected Scientific Results, Trust In Scientists, Red Dye #3, Andromeda Mosaic, Telepathy Tapes
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1019 - January 18th, 2025

Interview with Nick Tiller, News Items: Does Fact-Checking Work, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, The LA Fires, Building Materials for Storing Carbon
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1018 - January 11th, 2025

Quickie with Steve: Primate Twins: News Items: Mars Sample Return, Unique Glacial Microbiomes, Transatlantic Tunnel, Alcohol Advisory
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Flu Vaccine, Cryptid Mascots
Science or Fiction

Episode #1017 - January 4th, 2025

Psychic Predictions 2024
News Items: Space Exploration in 2025, Emerging Diseases, Dark Energy May Not Exist, Bigfoot Deaths
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Fusion Energy, In Memoriam Addendum
Science or Fiction

Episode #1016 - December 28th, 2024

2024 Year End Review
Best of 2024
Science Hero and Jackass of the Year
In Memoriam
Science or Fiction

Episode #1015 - December 21st, 2024

Live from Washington DC
News Items: The Science of Tipping, JonBenet Ramsey Case, Primordial Black Holes, Oldest Alphabet, Food Distribution, Goop Spiral
Live Q&A
Science or Fiction

Episode #1014 - December 14th, 2024

Interview with Noah Lugeons
News Items: Have We Achieved AGI, Coming Bird Flu, Weekend Warrior Exercise, Theoretical Technosignature, Simulation Again
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Blood Thicker than Water
Science or Fiction

Episode #1013 - December 7th, 2024

Quickie with Bob: Atomic Scale Precision
News Items: Innate Morality, New Space Station, Climate Hot Spots, Orcas Wearing Hats, Evidence Against Water on Venus
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Fisher Scream, CT UFO
Science or Fiction

Episode #1012 - November 30th, 2024

Interview with Andrea Love
News Items: Near Earth Microquasars, How to Watch Research Misconduct, Genetically Modifying Brains, Largest Prime Number, Magic Amulets, Atlantic Current Climate Tipping Point
Science or Fiction

Episode #1011 - November 23rd, 2024

Interview with Kevin Folta
News Items: Sense of Self in Robots, New Energy Secretary, Finding Planet Nine, Stress and Paranormal Belief
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Dumb Idioms
Science or Fiction

Episode #1010 - November 16th, 2024

Interview with Michael Mann
Quickie with Evan: Banning Magic
News Items: Armed Police in Schools, Training Surgical Robots, New Imaging Technique, Physician Misinformation
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Follow Up Mid-Atlantic Accent
Science or Fiction

Episode #1009 - November 9th, 2024

Interview 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

Episode #1008 - November 2nd, 2024

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

Episode #1007 - October 26th, 2024

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

Episode #1006 - October 19th, 2024

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

Episode #1005 - October 12th, 2024

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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

Episode #1004 - October 5th, 2024

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

Episode #1003 - September 28th, 2024

Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones-Rooy
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

Episode #1002 - September 21st, 2024

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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

Episode #1001 - September 14th, 2024

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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

Episode #1000 - September 7th, 2024

SGU Celebrates 1000 Episodes
A Skeptical Retrospective: Global Warming, Solar Panels, Cold and Hot Fusion, Medical Quackery, UFOs
Science or Fiction

Episode #999 - August 31st, 2024

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

Episode #998 - August 24th, 2024

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

Episode #997 - August 17th, 2024

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

Episode #996 - August 10th, 2024

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

Episode #995 - August 3rd, 2024

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

Episode #994 - July 27th, 2024

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

Episode #993 - July 20th, 2024

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

Episode #992 - July 13th, 2024

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

Episode #991 - July 6th, 2024

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

Episode #990 - June 29th, 2024

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

Episode #989 - June 22nd, 2024

Juneteenth
News Items: Sun's Magnetic Field About to Flip, Kids and Gun Safety, Gates Goes Nuclear, Nanodroplet Drug Delivery, Potential Dyson Spheres
Who's That Noisy
From TikTok: Free Energy Murders
Science or Fiction

Episode #988 - June 15th, 2024

Quickie with Evan: Mysterious Signal
News Items: Ultraprocessed Food, Artemis Update, Interstellar Clouds, Prebiotic Soda, Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Science or Fiction

Episode #987 - June 8th, 2024

Quickie with Bob - Drake Equation
News Items: Chang-e-6 Lifts Off from Moon, Adaptogens, Younger Menarche, More Aliens, Metasurface Night Vision
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Megabits and Ancient Pyramids
Science or Fiction

Episode #986 - June 1st, 2024

Quickie with Steve: New Gene Editing Tool
News Items: 3D Printed Superalloy, Lacking an Inner Voice, Spider Silk Sensors, How Were the Pyramids Built, Exoplanet Hunt for Life
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Star Talk and Acupuncture, Science or Fiction

Episode #985 - May 25th, 2024

What's the Word: Zooxanthellae
News Items: Blue Origin Update, Human Predator, Escaped GMOs, Solar Storm, Crypto Astrology
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: AI
Science or Fiction

Episode #984 - May 18th, 2024

Update on Steorn Free Energy
News Items: Chat GPT 4o, 2023 Hottest Summer, Spotting Misinformation, AI Training Robots, Reincarnated Son of Buddha
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Protecting Bigfoot
Science or Fiction

Episode #983 - May 11th, 2024

Interview with Robert Bartholomew
News Items: Electric Propulsion, Blowing off Steam, Washington Post and Past Lives, Programmable Living Matter, Fighting Holocaust Denial
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Deep Fakes and Grief
Science or Fiction

Episode #982 - May 4th, 2024

Quickie with Bob: Horizonal Running on the Moon
News Items: Vampire Facials, Kava and Liver Toxicity, Chiropractic Strokes, Merging Lifeforms
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Rocket Lab Reusable Rockets
Science or Fiction

Episode #981 - April 27th, 2024

John Oliver and UFOs
News Items: Voyager Fixed, NASA's New Solar Sail, Bird Flu in Milk, Dark Energy Getting Weaker, After Death Communications
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Havana Syndrome
Science or Fiction

Episode #980 - April 20th, 2024

What's the Word: Anhedonia
News Items: New Scams, Reconductoring, ISS Space Junk, Zombie Cicadas, Death by Wellness
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mail: AI Drug Development Correction
Science or Fiction

Episode #979 - April 13th, 2024

Live 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

Episode #978 - April 6th, 2024

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

Episode #977 - March 30th, 2024

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

Episode #976 - March 23rd, 2024

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

Episode #975 - March 16th, 2024

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

Episode #974 - March 9th, 2024

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

Episode #973 - March 2nd, 2024

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

Episode #972 - February 24th, 2024

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

Episode #971 - February 17th, 2024

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

Episode #970 - February 10th, 2024

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

Episode #969 - February 3rd, 2024

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

Episode #968 - January 27th, 2024

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

Episode #967 - January 20th, 2024

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

Episode #966 - January 13th, 2024

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

Episode #965 - January 6th, 2024

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

Episode #964 - December 30th, 2023

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

Episode #963 - December 23rd, 2023

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

Episode #962 - December 16th, 2023

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

Episode #961 - December 9th, 2023

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

Episode #960 - December 2nd, 2023

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

Episode #959 - November 25th, 2023

What's the Word: Rugae
News Items: 3D Printing Soft Robots, First CRISPR Treatment Approved, Omicron Update, Lunar Library
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Trust in Science, Fashion
Science or Fiction

Episode #958 - November 18th, 2023

Special Guest: George Hrab
Swindler's List: Romance Scam
News Items: Whole Eye Transplant, Hottest Year on Record, Neutron Thickness, Hydrogen Deposit in France, Trust in Science Declining
Who's That Noisy
Questions and E-mails: Oldest Photo
Science or Fiction

Episode #957 - November 11th, 2023

Interview with James Burke
Dumbest Thing of the Week
News Items: ESA Plans Space Capsule, Oldest Evidence of Projective Weapons, Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction, Ancient Planet Buried in Earth's Mantle, Bankman-Fried Guilty
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #956 - November 4th, 2023

Special Guest: Christian Hubicki
DragonCon Panels: Skepticism and Gaming, Government Coverup of UAPs, Generation Ships
News Items: Augmented Reality Social Reaction, How Stars Become Magnetars, Recent Mission to the Moon, Different Types of Mass
Special Report: Global Warming Policy
Science or Fiction

Episode #955 - October 28th, 2023

What's the Word: Benthic vs Pelagic
News Items: Age of the Moon, CVS and Homeopathy, Black Holes Do Spin, Paranormal Investigators and Police, Human Epoch
Who's That Noisy
You Questions and E-mails: Driverless Cars, Home Air Filters
Science or Fiction

Episode #954 - October 21st, 2023

Swindler's List: The IT Scam
News Items: Driverless Cars, Dead Whale Mystery, Filtering Wildfire Air, New Law of Nature Proposed, The Real Count Dracula
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Last After the Big Bang
Science or Fiction

Episode #953 - October 14th, 2023

Interview with Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes from the Knowledge Fight podcast
Quickie with Bob: Solar Panels at Proxima Centauri
News Items: Oldest Evidence of Humans in Americas, Addictive Foods, Using CRISPR to Make Chickens Flu Resistant, Superheavy Elements, Prehistoric Solar Storms
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nobel Peace Prize
Science or Fiction

Episode #952 - October 4th, 2023

Interview with Physicist Lars Martin
News Items: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics; Radio Telescope on the Moon; FEMA Alert Conspiracy
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Red Dye and ADHD
Science or Fiction

Episode #951 - September 30th, 2023

Discussion about Misinformation
News Items: Zoom Backgrounds, Manifesting Fails, Tong Test of AGI, Looking for Service Worlds, NASA Recovers Asteroid Sample
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Natural Gas vs Coal
Science or Fiction

Episode #950 - September 23rd, 2023

News Items: CAR-T Therapy, Martian Life, Oldest Wooden Structure, Mexican Alien Bodies, Signature of Life Found on Exoplanet
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #949 - September 16th, 2023

Special Guest: Christian Hubicki
DragonCon 2023 Highlights
Robots of the Future
News Items: Exploding Batteries and Deorbiting Satellites, Dark Stars, AI Drone Racing, Settling Mars, Stress Patches
Science or Fiction

Episode #948 - September 9th, 2023

Interview with Anna Blakney
News Items: ChatGPT University Performance, Geothermal Energy, Failed Star, Doctor and NDEs
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #947 - September 2nd, 2023

Live from Tucson with special guest George Hrab
Special Report: Death of P22
News Items: Toughest Metal, Eyewear from Coffee Grounds, Water Worlds, Psychic Fraud
Discussion Topic: Cancelling Celebrities
Experts Advice
Science or Fiction

Episode #946 - August 26th, 2023

News Items: Releasing Fukushima Radioactive Water, Online Gaming and Mental Health, Gradient Nanostructured Steel, Supernova and Neutrinos, Recent Lunar Missions
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Gender Affirming Care and Regret
Science or Fiction

Episode #945 - August 19th, 2023

News Items: Deep Space Network, Identifying Misinformation, Regret and Gender Affirming Care, Localizing Hidden Consciousness, Ice Baths
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Metazoan Correction
Science or Fiction

Episode #944 - August 12th, 2023

5-10 Year: Loch Ness
News Items: Depression Does Not Cause Cancer, Hidden Undersea World, AI vs Robo Calls, Cement Supercapacitor
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: More on EVs, RFK Jr on Tik Tok
Science or Fiction

Episode #943 - August 5th, 2023

What's the Word: Mereology
News Items: Glass Coated DNA, How Deadly in Heat, Australian Psychics, Speech Deepfake,s
Special Report: Electric Vehicle Myths
Quickie with Bob: Heaviest Animal
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #942 - July 29th, 2023

Quickie With Steve: Another Alzheimer Drug
News Items: Can AI Learn Like Humans, Room Temperature Superconductor, A Galaxy Without Dark Matter, Men Convicted for Mineral Solution
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Talent vs Skill
Science or Fiction

Episode #941 - July 22nd, 2023

News Items: Early Woodworking, Genetic Engineering to Fight Malaria, How We Determine What's True, Killing Bacteria, Nanopatch Pseudoscience
Your Questions and E-mails: Fishercat vs Red Fox, Thorium Reactors
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #940 - July 15th, 2023

Special Guests: George Hrab and Andrea Jones Roy
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Meteors and Alien Craft
News Items: Leqembi for Alzheimer's, Jeffrey Epstein Not Murdered, When Will Betelgeuse Explode, Can AI Solve Math Problems
Science or Fiction

Episode #939 - July 8th, 2023

Quickie with Bob: The Impossible Planet
News Items: Activity Late in Life, Hominid Cannibals, Aspartame and Cancer, FAA Approves Flying Car, Neutrino Image of Galaxy
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Homelessness, Titan Failure, Canadian Forests
Science or Fiction

Episode #938 - July 1st, 2023

What's The Word: Decussate
News Items: Ripples in Spacetime, Mars Simulation, Multimillion Dollar Psychic Scam, Who Is Most Susceptible to Misinformation, Malaria in Flroida
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Existential Dread
Science or Fiction

Episode #937 - June 24th, 2023

News Items: Neuroforecasting, Coastal Erosion, Milky Way's Supermassive Blackhole, Aliens in Vegas, Alcohol Use Disorder
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Latitude and Daylight, Debating RFK Jr.
Science or Fiction

Episode #936 - June 17th, 2023

Interview with David Kyle Johnson
News Items: Schizophrenia and Autoimmune Disease, 3D Printing Glass, Smoke Blocks Solar Power, Retooling Ribosome Translation, Ivory Billed Woodpecker Again
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: UFO Sighting
Science or Fiction

Episode #935 - June 10th, 2023

Special Report: Canadian Fires and Global Warming
News Items: The Coming of AR, The Causes of Cultural Differences, Space Travel and Brain Health, UFO Whistleblower
Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Breaking Placebo Effects
Science or Fiction

Episode #934 - June 3rd, 2023

Quickie with Bob: Brain Stimulation
News Items: Harvesting Energy from Air, Breakups and Hindsight Bias, AI Seance, Monster Stars
Your Questions and E-mails: Attenboroughs, Trees and CO2
Science or Fiction

Episode #933 - May 27th, 2023

Live Recording with special guest George Hrab
Quickie with Cara: New York is Sinking
News Items: Fourth Meal, Artemis Update, Making Fuel from Sunlight, Most Dangerous Toy, The Science of Reading, Urban Evolution
AI Voice Simulator, Science or Fiction

Episode #932 - May 20th, 2023

News Items: Microsoft Signs Up For Fusion, Robot Helpers, DNA Everywhere, The Evolution of Butterflies, CO2 and Lab Grown Meat
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #931 - May 13th, 2023

Quickie with Bob: Pangenome
News Items: Fake Studies, Germany and Nuclear Power, Moon Landing Hoax Again, Earth Viewed by Alien Civilization
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Dunning-Kruger Revisited
Science or Fiction

Episode #930 - May 6th, 2023

Interview with Brian Brushwood
What's The Word: Catacoustics
News Items: AI Mind Reading, 10,000 steps per day, 30 Years of the Web, When Will Aliens Contact Us
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Carnivore Diet
Science or Fiction

Episode #929 - April 29th, 2023

News Items: Starship Launch, False Belief Systems, Ashwagandha and other Herbal Drugs, The Evolution of Eukaryotes, Blue Holes
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: P-Values vs Effect Sizes
Science or Fiction

Episode #928 - April 22nd, 2023

News Items: Starship Almost Launch, Information in Ancient Meteorites, Lunar Cycle and Suicide, Sharper MRI Images, Mummies and Taxes
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Storage
Science or Fiction

Episode #927 - April 15th, 2023

Interview with Jon Bornstein of Amprius Technologies
News Items: Dopamine Detox, Overprotection May Cause Anxiety, W-Boson Mass, No Health Benefits from Moderate Drinking
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #926 - April 8th, 2023

Quickie with Bob: Quantum Random Numbers
News Items: Treating Infections Without Antibiotics, The Science of Clogging, New Kind of Black Hole, First Cell Phone
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Feedback on AI
Science or Fiction

Episode #925 - April 1st, 2023

Interview with Blake Lemoine
Quickie with Steve: Batteries with Double the Energy Density
News Items: Mammoth Meatball, Lunar Ice, First Blitzar Observed, England Allows Gene-Edited Crops
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #924 - March 25th, 2023

What's the Word: Pleonasm
Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine, Tik Tok and Misinformation, 3D Printed Rocket, Beethoven's Hair, Uranus Moons and Subsurface Oceans
Follow up: Oumuamua Comet Hypothesis
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #923 - March 18th, 2023

Interview with Derek Muller from Veritasium
Update: Mask Wearing
News Items: New Lunar Space Suits, End of Life Care, GPT-4 is Here, Terminator Zones, Ohio Chemical Spill

Episode #922 - March 11th, 2023

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Feng Shui
News Items: Blood Test for Anxiety, Mars Sample Return, Dinosaur Color
Cosmic Rays and the Pyramids
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, BetterHelp
Science or Fiction

Episode #921 - March 4th, 2023

Guest Rogue: F Perry Wilson
Quickie with Bob: Ancient Steel
News Items: Mining Hydrogen, ChatGPT Update, Erythritol and Heart Disease, Growing Brain Electrodes, Woodland Elves
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #920 - February 25th, 2023

Quickie with Steve: Serial Dependence Bias
News Items: 4-Day Work Week, Infants vs AI, Black Holes and Dark Energy, Ghost Hunting Devices, 3D Printing Super Alloys
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #919 - February 18th, 2023

Interview with Richard Wiseman
Quickie with Jay: Shooting Down UFOs
News Items: On Demand Male Contraceptive
Mask Update
Rogue Intergalactic Black Hole
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #918 - February 11th, 2023

Quickie with Steve: Dwarf Planet Mystery Ring
News Items: Lucky Girl Syndrome, Best Satellite Material, AI and Technosignatures, Sleep Disorders and Paranormal Belief, Earthing Update
Who's That Noisy
Potent Quotables
Science or Fiction

Episode #917 - February 4th, 2023

Quickie with Bob: Entanglement
News Items: Mummy Goo, Water Crisis and Climate Change, COVID Immunity, Bringing Back the Dodo, Fungal Pandemic
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Less vs Fewer, The Plug Wars
Science or Fiction

Episode #916 - January 28th, 2023

What's the Word: Aposematism
News Items: NASA Experimental Technology, Procrastination, Bacteria that Eat Plastic, Rubble Pile Asteroids, Traumatic Brain Injury
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Aptera Solar Car
Science or Fiction

Episode #915 - January 21st, 2023

News Items: Intermittent Fasting, Tech Devices and Brain Development, Latest Cancer Statistics, Short Sleeper Syndrome, Hungriest Black Hole, Webb's First Exoplanet
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Coffee Pods
Science or Fiction

Episode #914 - January 14th, 2023

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Sock Potatoes
News Items: Roman Concrete, Neuroimaging and Mental Health, Using Tumor Cells to Kill Tumors, Planet Spirals Into Star
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Damascus Steel
Science or Fiction

Episode #913 - January 7th, 2023

Psychic Predictions for 2022
News Items: Hydration Myths, Bioplastics, GPS on the Moon, Russia Fears Western Psychics
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #912 - December 31st, 2022

2022 Year in Review
with Guest Rogue: Ian Callanan
Best Science of the Year
Best SGU Segments of the Year
Skeptical Hero of the Year
Skeptical Jackass of the Year
In Memorium
Science or Fiction

Episode #911 - December 24th, 2022

Live from Phoenix
News Items: Fusion Breakthrough, Closed Loop Pumped Hydro, Jibber Jabber, Artemis I Returns, Bright Satellites, Cuttlefish Pass Marshmallow Test
Science or Fiction

Episode #910 - December 17th, 2022

Interview with AI Specialist Mark Ho
What's the Word: Science Fiction Terms
News Items: Electric Planes, Zetawatt Laser, Solar Sails
Live Q&A
Science or Fiction

Episode #909 - December 10th, 2022

News Items: Square Kilometer Array, Mantle Plume on Mars, Swimming Dinosaurs, Ancient Environmental DNA, Cat Domestication
Who's That Noisy
Potent Quotables
Your Questions and E-mails: Rocketry Advance
Science or Fiction

Episode #908 - December 3rd, 2022

Quickie with Bob: Milky Way Stellar halo
News Items: Plan to Occupy Moon, Cannabis for Pain, Acupuncture for Backpain, New SI Units, 911 Call Analysis
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Science or Fiction Protocol
Science or Fiction

Episode #907 - November 26th, 2022

What's the Word: Geophony
News Items: Artemis I Launch, Skin-Like Electronics, Homoploid Sympatric Speciation, Lab Grown Blood, Water Meteorite

Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #906 - November 19th, 2022

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Volcanic CO2
News Items: Developing New Antibiotics, China Completes Space Station, 8 Billion People, New SARS-CoV-2 Variants, Psychogeneology
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and e-mails: Clinically Proven, Billion Dollar Disasters
Science or Fiction

Episode #905 - November 12th, 2022

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Alternative Medicine
News Items: Climate Change in the Classroom, Effects of Climate in US, Closest Black Hole, AWARE II Study of NDEs
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Astrology
Science or Fiction

Episode #904 - November 5th, 2022

Quickie with Bob: Matter in Neutron Star Collisions
News Items: Daylight Saving Time, Humans Working With Robots, Lottery Miracle, Mechanical Neural Network
Special Report: History of Vibrators
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Intermittent Energy
Science or Fiction

Episode #903 - October 29th, 2022

Special Guest: Richard Saunders
News Items: Trust in Scientists, Reliability of World Energy, Video Games and Cognition, New Aging Technique, NASA UAP Study
What's The Word: Regression
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #902 - October 22nd, 2022

Quickie with Jay: Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation
News Items: Electric Universe, Neanderthal Clan, Gorillas and Chimps Friends, Brightest Gamma Ray Burst, Cheating Scandals
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: COVID Vaccines and Bell's Palsy
Science or Fiction

Episode #901 - October 15th, 2022

Quickie with Bob: Sails of Supertanker
News Items: Neurons Play Pong, Smelling in VR, Technosignatures and Biosignatures, TWA 800 Lawsuit, DART Mission Success
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #900 - October 8th, 2022

What's the Word: Hominid vs Hominin
News Items: Nobel Prizes 2022 - Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Homeopathy Lawsuit, Silkworm Pangenome
Quickies with Steve: New ALS Drug, 3D Printing Computer Chips
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #899 - October 1st, 2022

Interview with Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut
Forgotten Superhero of Science: Raye Jean Montague
News Items: Are Fake Meats Sustainable, Why Go Back to the Moon
Science or Fiction

Episode #898 - September 24th, 2022

News Items: 2022 Ig Nobels, It's OK to Ask for Help, Bitcoin and Fedimints, Multivitamins for Memory, Refreezing the Poles, Neuro Emotional Technique
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Chess Cheating Follow Up
Science Fiction

Episode #897 - September 17th, 2022

Is It Real: Ear Snake
News Items: What Children Believe, Health Effects of Gas Stoves, Neanderthal Brains, Synthetic Microbiome, UFO Videos Classified
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Nihilism
Science or Fiction

Episode #896 - September 10th, 2022

Quickie with Bob: Frank Drake; News Items: MOXIE Follow Up, Talk More, EMDR Update, Did Giant Meteorites Create Continents, Death by Herbal Remedy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Episode #895 - September 3rd, 2022

Interview with Dr. Seema Yasmin
News Items: Hot Summer, Tear Down this Paywall, Volcano Catastrophe, Solar Energy Update
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #894 - August 27th, 2022

Report from Italy
News Items: Space-Based Solar Power, Theory of Decision Making, Urban Crops, Protons have Charm
Who's That Noisy
Dumbest Thing of the Week
Science or Fiction

Episode #893 - August 20th, 2022

Live from NECSS with guests Andrea JonesRooy and Kelly Burke
Perry DeAngelis Memorial
News Items: Earth Spinning Faster, Scientific Rigor, More Space Debris, The Alex Jones Trial
Special Segments: Chorizo Hoax, Audio Pareidolia
Science or Fiction

Episode #892 - August 13th, 2022

Special Report: New Climate Change Bill
News Items: The Physics of Meteors, New Kind of Motion, Structured Water, Cryonic Horror Stories
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Photons Have Momentum
Science or Fiction

Episode #891 - August 6th, 2022

Quickie with Bob: Friction
News Items: The Neuroscience of Politics, Cozy Lava Tubes, Video Games and Well-Being, Invisible Dark Matter
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Lord Kelvin, Green Methane, Universe Isotropy
Science or Fiction

Episode #890 - July 30th, 2022

What's The Word: Cladistics
News Items: Detecting Exoplanets, Too Hot, Overconfidence and Denial, Monkeypox Update
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Self-Advocacy vs Kibitzing
Science or Fiction

Episode #889 - July 23rd, 2022

Interview with Brian Dunning about UFO Movie
Cara's Cancer Experience
News Items: Global Warming Technologies, SLS Launch, Periodic FRBs, Habitable Super Earths
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #888 - July 16th, 2022

News Items: Green Steel, T. Rex Arms, Getting Out The Vote, James Webb Latest Images
Who's That Noisy
Quote Quiz
Science or Fiction

Episode #887 - July 9th, 2022

Interview with Dr. Dave Stanton
Special Segment: The Fate of Fireworks
News Items: Universal Coronavirus Vaccine, Preserving Ukraine's Landmarks, Detecting Particles with Gravitational Waves, Who Owns the Moon
Your Questions and E-mails: What Is a Skeptic?
Science or Fiction

Episode #886 - July 2nd, 2022

Quickie with Bob - Gamma Ray Burst Pauses
News Items: Mining the Sea, Science of Abortion, How Many Galaxies
Your Questions and E-mails: Can Dogs Talk
Science or Fiction

Episode #885 - June 25th, 2022

Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
News Items: Jupiter Ate Baby Planets, The Risk of Sitting, NASA Joins Study of UAPs, Galapagos Giant Tortoise Not Extinct
What's the Word: Nostrum
Your Questions and E-mails: Testing AIs
Science or Fiction

Episode #884 - June 18th, 2022

News Items: Is LaMDA AI Sentient, AI Influencers, Kids Don't Get Cancer Because They Are Unhappy, Free Floating Black Hole
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #883 - June 11th, 2022

News Items: Infantile Amnesia, The Age of Giants, AI and Traffic Jams, Green Bank Radio Observatory
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E=mails: Science of Gun Regulation
Science or Fiction

Episode #882 - June 4th, 2022

News Items: Exascale Supercomputer, Dinosaurs Warm or Cold Blooded, Preventing Violent Crime, Revising the Evolutionary Tree, New Optical Illusion
Quickie with Bob: Gato AI
Who's That Noisy
Your questions and E-mails: Reading Systematic Reviews
Science or Fiction

Episode #881 - May 28th, 2022

Interview with NASA's Naomi Rowe-Gurney
News Items: Monkeypox, NASA's Mars Plans, Linear Bias
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #880 - May 21st, 2022

News Items: Health Benefits of Clean Energy, SIDS, Growing Plants in Lunar Soil, Milky Way Black Hole, Gullible Acupuncture Article
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food Diet
Science or Fiction

Episode #879 - May 14th, 2022

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Best UFO Picture
News Items: AI Artists, Molten Salt Battery, Trolling Science Journalism, Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Action Bias vs Omission Bias
Science Fiction

Episode #878 - May 7th, 2022

SGU 17 Year Anniversary
Quickie with Bob: Follow Up Solar Lens
News Items: Sustainable Jet Fuel, Dog Personality, COVID and Cognitive Function, Fertilizer Shortage, Cosmic Expansion
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Lemuria
Science or Fiction

Episode #877 - April 30th, 2022

The Skeptics Guide to the Future Book Preorder
News Items: Redefining the Second, NFT Medicine, LHC Restart, Energy Psychology, Researching the Paranormal
Who's That Noisy
Corrections: Native vs Endemic
Science or Fiction

Episode #876 - April 23rd, 2022

News Items: Vaping and Inflammation, Projectile Fusion, Facilitated Communication is Still Pseudoscience, Gamma Rays and Gravitational Waves, AI Emotion Detection
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Communicating Skepticism
Science or Fiction

Episode #875 - April 16th, 2022

Live from Boston with guest George Hrab
Over-Under
News Items: CRISPR-On, Achromatic X-Ray Lens, Pareidolia and Gender, Cleaning Solar Panels, Public Media and Democracy
Science or Fiction

Episode #874 - April 9th, 2022

Interview with NASA Biologist John Kiss
News Items: Life on Europa, Ancient Skull Surgery, Artemis Stuck, Most Distant Star, Fake News
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution and Racism
Science or Fiction

Episode #873 - April 2nd, 2022

Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Roy
Special Report: Political Science of War
News Items: Transgenic Plants in Space, Homeopathy Trials and Publication Bias, Psychedelic Treatments, Anti-Universe, Plastic in our Blood
Science or Fiction

Episode #872 - March 26th, 2022

Daylight Saving Time
News Items: SLS is here, COVID Brain, Origins of Life, Orbiting Solar Power, Antarctic Heat Wave
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #871 - March 19th, 2022

Interview with Michelle Ciulla Lipkin from the National Association for Media Literacy Education
News Items: Why Is Life Symmetrical, Evolution of Language, Moon Rocks, Plasma Laser Lens, International Paranormal Conference
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #870 - March 12th, 2022

Guest Rogue, Brian Wecht
News Items: Solid State Batteries, Are Coronal Loops Real, COVID Anosmia, Alcohol and the Brain
Special Report: Update on String Theory
Quickie with Bob: Bacteria Convert Sunlight to Energy
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #869 - March 5th, 2022

Special Report: Ukraine
News Items: Quantum Gravity Gradiometer, Sea Level Rise, NASA Innovative Projects, Biological Sex
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #868 - February 26th, 2022

News Items: Hot Jupiters, Jumping To Conclusions, Nanoparticles to Stop Internal Bleeding, Internet 2035
Quickie with Bob: Plasma Physics
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Deaths
Science or Fiction

Episode #867 - February 19th, 2022

First Scientists
News Items: Psyche May Not Be The Iron Giant, Planet Around White Dwarf, Falling Birds, HIV Cure
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Girt
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #866 - February 12th, 2022

Quotation Rotation
News Items: Treating Spinal Cord Injury, Artificial Enamel, Laser Thermal Propulsion, Chimps Self-Medicating
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: De-Extinction
Science or Fiction

Episode #865 - February 5th, 2022

Quickie with Bob - Scientists Invent Flubber
News Items: Machine Learning and Mental Health, Hardy Tardigrades, DNA Microfossils, Belief in the Paranormal and Credibility, Tesla Robots
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Rogan and Spotify
Science or Fiction

Episode #864 - January 29th, 2022

What's the Word: Allopatric
News Items: Carbon Signatures on Mars, Schoolkids and Conspiracy Theories, Peter Jackson Uses AI to Restore Beatles, Human Remains Locator
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: 5G and Airlines, The Effects of Climate Change
Science or Fiction

Episode #863 - January 22nd, 2022

Interview with Brad McKay, Special Segment: 5G and Airlines
News Items: Origins of Life, Zombie Science, Silent as an Owl, Evolution of Flowering Plants
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #862 - January 15th, 2022

News Items: Pig Heart Transplant, Managing the Next Pandemic, Bogus Hangover Cures, James Webb Telescope Update, Battlefield Acupuncture
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Does Smelling Equal Exposure
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #861 - January 8th, 2022

Predictions for 2021 and 2022
News Items: Space Highlights for 2022, Education and the Aging Brain, Ramjet Physics, Elizabeth Holmes Guilty Verdict
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Off the Reservation
Science or Fiction

Episode #860 - January 1st, 2022

2021 Year-End Review Show
Best Science of the Year
Pseudoscience of the Year
Best SGU Segments
Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of 2021
In Memoriam
Science or Fiction

Episode #859 - December 25th, 2021

Live from Fort Collins
Discussion: End of Civilization
News Items: Nuclear on the Moon, What Launched Video Games, Assholes More Likely to be Wrong, Vaccine Detox
The Rogues Answer Psychology Questions
Science or Fiction

Episode #858 - December 18th, 2021

What's The Word: Substrate
News Items: Storing Energy with Air and Water, Zoom Fatigue, Challenging Einstein, Webb Launching
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #857 - December 11th, 2021

Holiday Pseudoscience Guide
News Items: Treating the Unvaccinated, DNA Data Storage, MLM Exploiting Women, Binge Watching, Asteroid Monitoring
Who's That Noisy
Name That Quote
Your Questions and E-mails: Blaming Parents
Science or Fiction

Episode #856 - December 4th, 2021

COVID Update: Omicron
Myths about Black Widow Spiders
News Items: Sentient Cephalopods, Self Replicating Xenobots, Pharmacists Recommending Homeopathy
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: SpinLaunch Follow up
Science or Fiction

Episode #855 - November 27th, 2021

Live from Denver
Special Segment: Families, Vaccines, and Thanksgiving
News Items: Russia Shoots Down Satellite, Asteroid May Be Moon Fragment, Loss Aversion, Bank Robber Identifies After 52 Years, Alex Jones Liable in Sandy Hook Case, Spinlaunch
Science or Fiction

Episode #854 - November 20th, 2021

News Items: Kilometer Long Spaceship, Social Media and Kids, Bionic Arm, Embryo Research, Trust in Science
Quickie with Bob: Caves on Mars
Mystery Quotes
Science or Fiction

Episode #853 - November 13th, 2021

COVID Update: New Antivirals
News Items: Moon Return Delay, Brain Stimulation Treatment, Carbon to Rock, Astronaut Brain Damage
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Organic Farming
Science or Fiction

Episode #852 - November 6th, 2021

COVID Update
News Items: Organic Fail, Are Viruses Alive, Memes Ease Stress, Extragalactic Planet, Superconducting New State of Matter
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Elizabeth Bathory
Science or Fiction

Episode #851 - October 30th, 2021

What's the Word: Chirality
News Items: Creepy Parasite, Lab Grown Coffee, Organoid Research, Conspiracies and COVID, Death by Exorcism
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Peak Uranium
SGU Recommends
Science or Fiction

Episode #850 - October 23rd, 2021

Interview with David Copperfield and Richard Wiseman
News Items: Pig Kidney Transplant, Scientists Abused for Discussing COVID, Synthetic Biology, AGW Consensus, Dark Skies
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Propaganda
Science or Fiction

Episode #849 - October 16th, 2021

Interview with Craig Good
News Items: Mass Extinction 30 Million Years Ago, Strange Radio Waves, Plant Molecular Farming, Neurofeedback Headbands
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #848 - October 9th, 2021

Update on SGU Activities
News Items: Space Radiation Shielding, Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry
SGU Recommends: Oats Studios
Quickie with Bob - Large Comet
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #847 - October 2nd, 2021

Ivory Billed Woodpecker Follow Up
News Items: Gigantic Cavity in Space, Oldest Evidence of Humans in North America, Treating Heart Disease in Women, Amazon Home Robot
Name That Logical Fallacy, Your Questions and E-mails: Theranos
Science or Fiction

Episode #846 - September 25th, 2021

What's The Word: Pudendum
News Items: Whitest White, Using AI To Find New Materials, Philosophy and Science Denial, Belief in Ghosts
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: EMF Blockers
Science or Fiction

Episode #845 - September 18th, 2021

Swindler's List: Auto Warranty Robocalls
News Items: Tongue Snakeoil, Keyhole Spying, Fact Checking Misinformation, Cognitive Control and Cheating, Bringing Back the Mammoth
SGU Recommends: What If
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails

Episode #844 - September 11th, 2021

COVID Update: Mu Variant
News Items: Just Below Pricing, Magnetic Field Record, Mars Rock Sample, Getting Rid of Cash
Who's That Noisy
Your E-mails and Questions: Electric Cars
Science or Fiction

Episode #843 - September 4th, 2021

Live from NECSS 2021
Your Number's Up: Googol
News Items: Poison Frogs, Let Kid's Roam, Going Electric, Artificial Neurons, Neutron Star Mountains, Biggest Things in the Universe Don't Exist
Science or Fiction

Episode #842 - August 28th, 2021

Interview with Eugenie Scott
COVID Update: FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine
News Items: Ant Underground Cities, Food Allergy Myths, The White Lady of Union Cemetery, Feng Shui in Australia
Who’s That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #841 - August 21st, 2021

COVID Booster Shots
News Items: Philippines Approves Golden Rice, Moore's Law Beyond Silicon, Brain Organoids with Eyes, Fusion Advance
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Animals that Cook
Science or Fiction

Episode #840 - August 14th, 2021

News Items: IPCC Sixth Report, Yellowstone Myths, Mars Obstacles, Spacesuit Delay, Scamming Teens
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Meat-eating Dinosaurs
Science or Fiction

Episode #839 - August 7th, 2021

News Items: Making Hydrogen, Trouble for Self-Driving Cars, Metaverse, Olympic Medals, Olympic Pseudoscience
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Time
Science or Fiction

Episode #838 - July 31st, 2021

COVID Update: Ivermectin and Mix and Match Vaccines
News Items: Folding Proteins, Magnet Therapy for Cancer, Galileo Project, Wing Color and Flight Efficiency, Mercola Misinformation
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Power
Science or Fiction

Episode #837 - July 24th, 2021

COVID Update: Vaccine Hesitancy
News Items: Plastic Tipping Point, Balloon Telescope, AI Creativity, More Space Tourism
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #836 - July 17th, 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

Episode #835 - July 10th, 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

Episode #834 - July 3rd, 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

Episode #833 - June 26th, 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

Episode #832 - June 19th, 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

Episode #831 - June 12th, 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