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Episode #880

05/21/2022

News Items: Health Benefits of Clean Energy, SIDS, Growing Plants in Lunar Soil, Milky Way Black Hole, Gullible Acupuncture ArticleWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food DietScience or Fiction

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  • 2022
    860 - 880
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    Episode #880 - May 21st, 2022

    News Items: Health Benefits of Clean Energy, SIDS, Growing Plants in Lunar Soil, Milky Way Black Hole, Gullible Acupuncture ArticleWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food DietScience or Fiction

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    Episode #879 - May 14th, 2022

    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Best UFO PictureNews Items: AI Artists, Molten Salt Battery, Trolling Science Journalism, Solar Thermochemical HydrogenWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Action Bias vs Omission BiasScience Fiction

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    Episode #878 - May 7th, 2022

    SGU 17 Year AnniversaryQuickie with Bob: Follow Up Solar LensNews Items: Sustainable Jet Fuel, Dog Personality, COVID and Cognitive Function, Fertilizer Shortage, Cosmic ExpansionWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: LemuriaScience or Fiction

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    Episode #877 - April 30th, 2022

    The Skeptics Guide to the Future Book PreorderNews Items: Redefining the Second, NFT Medicine, LHC Restart, Energy Psychology, Researching the ParanormalWho's That NoisyCorrections: Native vs EndemicScience or Fiction

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    Episode #876 - April 23rd, 2022

    News Items: Vaping and Inflammation, Projectile Fusion, Facilitated Communication is Still Pseudoscience, Gamma Rays and Gravitational Waves, AI Emotion DetectionWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Communicating SkepticismScience or Fiction

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    Episode #875 - April 16th, 2022

    Live from Boston with guest George HrabOver-UnderNews Items: CRISPR-On, Achromatic X-Ray Lens, Pareidolia and Gender, Cleaning Solar Panels, Public Media and DemocracyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #874 - April 9th, 2022

    Interview with NASA Biologist John KissNews Items: Life on Europa, Ancient Skull Surgery, Artemis Stuck, Most Distant Star, Fake NewsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Evolution and RacismScience or Fiction

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    Episode #873 - April 2nd, 2022

    Guest Rogue Andrea Jones RoySpecial Report: Political Science of WarNews Items: Transgenic Plants in Space, Homeopathy Trials and Publication Bias, Psychedelic Treatments, Anti-Universe, Plastic in our BloodScience or Fiction

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    Episode #872 - March 26th, 2022

    Daylight Saving TimeNews Items: SLS is here, COVID Brain, Origins of Life, Orbiting Solar Power, Antarctic Heat WaveWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #871 - March 19th, 2022

    Interview with Michelle Ciulla Lipkin from the National Association for Media Literacy EducationNews Items: Why Is Life Symmetrical, Evolution of Language, Moon Rocks, Plasma Laser Lens, International Paranormal ConferenceWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #870 - March 12th, 2022

    Guest Rogue, Brian WechtNews Items: Solid State Batteries, Are Coronal Loops Real, COVID Anosmia, Alcohol and the BrainSpecial Report: Update on String TheoryQuickie with Bob: Bacteria Convert Sunlight to EnergyWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #869 - March 5th, 2022

    Special Report: UkraineNews Items: Quantum Gravity Gradiometer, Sea Level Rise, NASA Innovative Projects, Biological SexWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #868 - February 26th, 2022

    News Items: Hot Jupiters, Jumping To Conclusions, Nanoparticles to Stop Internal Bleeding, Internet 2035Quickie with Bob: Plasma PhysicsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Bird DeathsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #867 - February 19th, 2022

    First ScientistsNews Items: Psyche May Not Be The Iron Giant, Planet Around White Dwarf, Falling Birds, HIV CureWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: GirtName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #866 - February 12th, 2022

    Quotation RotationNews Items: Treating Spinal Cord Injury, Artificial Enamel, Laser Thermal Propulsion, Chimps Self-MedicatingWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: De-ExtinctionScience or Fiction

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    Episode #865 - February 5th, 2022

    Quickie with Bob - Scientists Invent FlubberNews Items: Machine Learning and Mental Health, Hardy Tardigrades, DNA Microfossils, Belief in the Paranormal and Credibility, Tesla RobotsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Rogan and SpotifyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #864 - January 29th, 2022

    What's the Word: AllopatricNews Items: Carbon Signatures on Mars, Schoolkids and Conspiracy Theories, Peter Jackson Uses AI to Restore Beatles, Human Remains LocatorWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: 5G and Airlines, The Effects of Climate ChangeScience or Fiction

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    Episode #863 - January 22nd, 2022

    Interview with Brad McKay, Special Segment: 5G and AirlinesNews Items: Origins of Life, Zombie Science, Silent as an Owl, Evolution of Flowering PlantsWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #862 - January 15th, 2022

    News Items: Pig Heart Transplant, Managing the Next Pandemic, Bogus Hangover Cures, James Webb Telescope Update, Battlefield AcupunctureWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Does Smelling Equal ExposureName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #861 - January 8th, 2022

    Predictions for 2021 and 2022News Items: Space Highlights for 2022, Education and the Aging Brain, Ramjet Physics, Elizabeth Holmes Guilty VerdictWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Off the ReservationScience or Fiction

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    Episode #860 - January 1st, 2022

    2021 Year-End Review ShowBest Science of the YearPseudoscience of the YearBest SGU SegmentsSkeptical Heroes and Jackasses of 2021In MemoriamScience or Fiction

  • 2021
    808 - 859
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    Episode #859 - December 25th, 2021

    Live from Fort CollinsDiscussion: End of CivilizationNews Items: Nuclear on the Moon, What Launched Video Games, Assholes More Likely to be Wrong, Vaccine DetoxThe Rogues Answer Psychology QuestionsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #858 - December 18th, 2021

    What's The Word: SubstrateNews Items: Storing Energy with Air and Water, Zoom Fatigue, Challenging Einstein, Webb LaunchingWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #857 - December 11th, 2021

    Holiday Pseudoscience GuideNews Items: Treating the Unvaccinated, DNA Data Storage, MLM Exploiting Women, Binge Watching, Asteroid MonitoringWho's That NoisyName That QuoteYour Questions and E-mails: Blaming ParentsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #856 - December 4th, 2021

    COVID Update: OmicronMyths about Black Widow SpidersNews Items: Sentient Cephalopods, Self Replicating Xenobots, Pharmacists Recommending HomeopathyWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: SpinLaunch Follow upScience or Fiction

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    Episode #855 - November 27th, 2021

    Live from DenverSpecial Segment: Families, Vaccines, and ThanksgivingNews 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, SpinlaunchScience or Fiction

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    Episode #854 - November 20th, 2021

    News Items: Kilometer Long Spaceship, Social Media and Kids, Bionic Arm, Embryo Research, Trust in ScienceQuickie with Bob: Caves on MarsMystery QuotesScience or Fiction

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    Episode #853 - November 13th, 2021

    COVID Update: New AntiviralsNews Items: Moon Return Delay, Brain Stimulation Treatment, Carbon to Rock, Astronaut Brain DamageWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Organic FarmingScience or Fiction

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    Episode #852 - November 6th, 2021

    COVID UpdateNews Items: Organic Fail, Are Viruses Alive, Memes Ease Stress, Extragalactic Planet, Superconducting New State of MatterWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Elizabeth BathoryScience or Fiction

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    Episode #851 - October 30th, 2021

    What's the Word: ChiralityNews Items: Creepy Parasite, Lab Grown Coffee, Organoid Research, Conspiracies and COVID, Death by ExorcismWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Peak UraniumSGU RecommendsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #850 - October 23rd, 2021

    Interview with David Copperfield and Richard WisemanNews Items: Pig Kidney Transplant, Scientists Abused for Discussing COVID, Synthetic Biology, AGW Consensus, Dark SkiesWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: PropagandaScience or Fiction

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    Episode #849 - October 16th, 2021

    Interview with Craig GoodNews Items: Mass Extinction 30 Million Years Ago, Strange Radio Waves, Plant Molecular Farming, Neurofeedback HeadbandsWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #848 - October 9th, 2021

    Update on SGU ActivitiesNews Items: Space Radiation Shielding, Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and ChemistrySGU Recommends: Oats StudiosQuickie with Bob - Large CometName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #847 - October 2nd, 2021

    Ivory Billed Woodpecker Follow UpNews Items: Gigantic Cavity in Space, Oldest Evidence of Humans in North America, Treating Heart Disease in Women, Amazon Home RobotName That Logical Fallacy, Your Questions and E-mails: TheranosScience or Fiction

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    Episode #846 - September 25th, 2021

    What's The Word: PudendumNews Items: Whitest White, Using AI To Find New Materials, Philosophy and Science Denial, Belief in GhostsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: EMF BlockersScience or Fiction

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    Episode #845 - September 18th, 2021

    Swindler's List: Auto Warranty RobocallsNews Items: Tongue Snakeoil, Keyhole Spying, Fact Checking Misinformation, Cognitive Control and Cheating, Bringing Back the MammothSGU Recommends: What IfWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails

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    Episode #844 - September 11th, 2021

    COVID Update: Mu VariantNews Items: Just Below Pricing, Magnetic Field Record, Mars Rock Sample, Getting Rid of CashWho's That NoisyYour E-mails and Questions: Electric CarsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #843 - September 4th, 2021

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

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    Episode #842 - August 28th, 2021

    Interview with Eugenie ScottCOVID Update: FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine News Items: Ant Underground Cities, Food Allergy Myths, The White Lady of Union Cemetery, Feng Shui in AustraliaWho’s That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #841 - August 21st, 2021

    COVID Booster ShotsNews Items: Philippines Approves Golden Rice, Moore's Law Beyond Silicon, Brain Organoids with Eyes, Fusion AdvanceWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Animals that CookScience or Fiction

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    Episode #840 - August 14th, 2021

    News Items: IPCC Sixth Report, Yellowstone Myths, Mars Obstacles, Spacesuit Delay, Scamming TeensWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Meat-eating DinosaursScience or Fiction

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    Episode #839 - August 7th, 2021

    News Items: Making Hydrogen, Trouble for Self-Driving Cars, Metaverse, Olympic Medals, Olympic PseudoscienceWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: TimeScience or Fiction

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    Episode #838 - July 31st, 2021

    COVID Update: Ivermectin and Mix and Match VaccinesNews Items: Folding Proteins, Magnet Therapy for Cancer, Galileo Project, Wing Color and Flight Efficiency, Mercola MisinformationWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Nuclear PowerScience or Fiction

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    Episode #837 - July 24th, 2021

    COVID Update: Vaccine HesitancyNews Items: Plastic Tipping Point, Balloon Telescope, AI Creativity, More Space TourismWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #836 - July 17th, 2021

    COVID Update: Vaccine BoosterNews Items: Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Rogue Planets, Space Tourism, Hydroponic FarmingYour Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic WineScience or Fiction

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    Episode #835 - July 10th, 2021

    What's the Word: OsculantNews Items: FDA Approval of Aducanumab, New Kind of Supernova, Icelandia, Shorter Work WeekYour Questions and E-mails: Faith vs BeliefName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #834 - July 3rd, 2021

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Pioneers in Deep Sea Bathyspheric observationsNews Items: Noisy Thinking, T-Rex Teens, Video Games and Mental Health, Forming the Milky Way, Dowsing AgainScience or FictionsLive Questions

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    Episode #833 - June 26th, 2021

    COVID Update: Delta VariantNews Items: Detecting Life, Update on Space Launch System, Brain Implant for Pain, Pupil Size and IntelligenceWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Food from AirScience or Fiction

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    Episode #832 - June 19th, 2021

    News Items: Bad Science Reporting, Protecting Climate and Species, COVID Pseudoscience in Brazil, Night Vision Glasses, Homeopathic OverdoseWho's That NoisyName That Logical Fallacy

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    Episode #831 - June 12th, 2021

    What's The Word: OperculumNews Items: Regeneration, Social Media and Memories, 3D Printing Reusable Rockets, Mental Illness and Mass Shootings, Magnetized by VaccineWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Wow SignalScience or Fiction

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    Episode #830 - June 5th, 2021

    Lab Leak Theory RevisitedNews Items: Minimize Left Turns, Replacing Enamel, Graphene Aluminum Ion Batteries, Bee Venom Therapy PseudoscienceWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Left Brain - Right BrainScience or Fiction

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    Episode #829 - May 29th, 2021

    Interview with Mick WestNews Items: Non-Replicated Studies Cited More, Maximum Human Lifespan, Graphene Concrete, Atomic Level Microscope, Brain Game PseudoscienceWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #828 - May 22nd, 2021

    COVID UpdateNews Items: Butt Breathing, Bullshit and Intelligence, Brightest Cosmic Light, UFOs AgainWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Excited DeliriumWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #827 - May 15th, 2021

    Interview with Julia GalefNews Items: Brain Implant Interprets Writing, SARS-CoV-2 May Enter Genome, Hypersonic Jets, Sequestering CarbonWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Energy DensityScience or Fiction

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    Episode #826 - May 8th, 2021

    Interview with Andy WeirSGU 16 yearsNews Items: Electric Planes, Website Diversity, Evolution of Multicellularity, NASA Solar Probe, Chinese Space ProgramWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #825 - May 1st, 2021

    Correcting Lord KelvinNews Items: Miracle Bleach Peddler Indicted, Michael Collins, Life on Mars, Political Polarization, Brood XWho's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Human IntelligenceScience or Fiction

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    Episode #824 - April 24th, 2021

    COVID UpdateNews Items: Lunar Lander Chosen, Nuclear Fallout, Viral Vector Gene Therapy, Predicting the next Pandemic, FRBs and the Expansion of the UniverseYour Questions and E-mails: Why is North Up?Dumbest Thing of the WeekWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #823 - April 17th, 2021

    COVID Vaccine UpdateNews Items: Possible New Force, CRISPRoff, US Power Half Way to Zero Carbon, Sea Meadows Carbon Sink, Pharoah's CurseWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #822 - April 10th, 2021

    Interview with Iszi LawrenceNews Items: Yawning Lions, Air DNA, Oxygenation Events, Infection Proof Implants, Aliens Friend of FoeWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #821 - April 3rd, 2021

    What's the Word: PhenotypeNews Items: Satellites and Light Pollution, Heart Size and Space Travel, Self-Replicating Synthetic Cells, Why No Lyme Vaccine, Origins of SARS-CoV-2Quickie with Evan: New Atomic ClocksWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Avi LoebScience or Fiction

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    Episode #820 - March 27th, 2021

    News Items: Vaccine Hesitancy, Ocean Worlds, Oumuamua Explained, More Dead Sea ScrollsYour Questions and E-mails: Dark Matter Debunked?Name That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #819 - March 20th, 2021

    Your Number's Up: PiNews Items: Landing on the Moon, Seeing Thylacines, Losing Yourself, Reading for FunWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Geert Vanden Bossche, Power vs EnergyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #818 - March 13th, 2021

    COVID UpdateNews Items: Vaccines Prevent Spread, Cave of Dog Evolution, Batteries on the Rise, AI Tech Gap, Nearby Superearth, Sea Slug Self-DecapitationWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Mechanical TurkScience or Fiction

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    Episode #817 - March 6th, 2021

    News Items: Moxie on Mars, Megafauna Extinction, Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere, When to End a ConversationWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: TMS and DepressionName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #816 - February 27th, 2021

    Interview with Philip GoffWhat's the Word: PercolationNews Items: Perseverance, Communicating While Dreaming, Phage Viruses and Antibiotics, Good the PandemicWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #815 - February 20th, 2021

    Cold Snap in TexasNews Items: American Megafauna Extinction, The Fifth Dimension, Bird's Magnetic World, Pentagon UFO WreckageWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Police and Lie Detection, Saunas and SweatScience or Fiction

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    Episode #814 - February 13th, 2021

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Lie Detectors, Sauna Detox, Black Hole Energy Extraction, Hearing Dead PeopleWho's That NoisyName That Logical Fallacy: Availability HeuristicScience or Fiction

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    Episode #813 - February 6th, 2021

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rita Levi-MontalciniNews Items: Dunning Kruger Validity, Junk on the Moon, Protein Switches, Bipolar IonizationWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Multiverse Revisited, Compliment SandwichScience or Fiction

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    Episode #812 - January 30th, 2021

    12 SGU Live StreamNews Items: Streaming Carbon Footprint, Assassin Bug Fossil, Stealing MonkeysSpecial Report: Solar Gravitational Lens AstronomyIs It TrueScience or Fiction

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    Episode #811 - January 23rd, 2021

    News Items: Number of Galaxies in the Universe, Logic of the Multiverse, Protecting Lunar Artifacts, Masking After Vaccine, CIA UFO DisclosureWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Q-Anon and Game DesignScience or Fiction

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    Episode #810 - January 16th, 2021

    Interview with Phil McAlister from NASAWhat's the Word: DegenerateNews Items: Graphene Superconductors, Controlling Superintelligent Machines, Scalar Energy ScamWho's That NoisyYour questions and E-mails: Learning Styles,Science or Fiction

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    Episode #809 - January 9th, 2021

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Canyons on Mars, Ethics of Brain-Machine-Interface, Belief in Learning Styles, Ravens and Ape IntelligenceWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Pornstar Names and SecurityScience or Fiction

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    Episode #808 - January 2nd, 2021

    Psychic PredictionsNews Items: New SARS-CoV-2 Variant, Satellites Made From Wood, Quantum Computing AdvanceWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

  • 2020
    756 - 807
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    Episode #807 - December 26th, 2020

    SGU 2020 Year in ReviewBest Science News Items and Pseudoscience of the YearFavorite SGU MomentsSkeptical Heroes and JackassesIn MemoriamScience or Fiction

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    Episode #806 - December 19th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update: Vaccine and Home TestingNews Items: Arecibo Telescope, AI Predicting Weather, Manipulated by Robots, Genetically Engineered Pigs, Asteroid Sample ReturnWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Historicity of JesusScience or Fiction

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    Episode #805 - December 12th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Chuck Yeagar dies at 97, The Smellicopter, COVID Anti-Vaxxers, Are We Ready for AliensWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Protein FoldingName That Logical Fallacy: More Slippery SlopeScience or Fiction

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    Episode #804 - December 5th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: The Home of Jesus, Ancient Seeds, Treatment for Progeria, Protein Folding Solved, ISS LongevityWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Principia Follow UpName That Logical Fallacy: Slippery SlopeScience or Fiction

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    Episode #803 - November 28th, 2020

    COVID Vaccine UpdateNews Items: The Popularity of Principia, Supersized Wind Turbines, A Magnetar is Born, Plant PersonalitySpecial Report: The Truth about GalileoWhos That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Racial BiasScience or Fiction

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    Episode #802 - November 21st, 2020

    COVID-19 Vaccine UpdateNews Items: Resisting Facial Recognition, Farming Mars, Sound Beaming, Hydrogen from AmmoniaWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Rankine ScaleName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #801 - November 14th, 2020

    COVID-19 VaccineNews Items: 3D Printing with Bacteria, Prebunking, Real Cause of Light Pollution, Physics Paradox Solved, Nuclear Thermal EnginesWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Throw-Away JournalsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #800 - November 7th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Amulets for COVID, Right to Try Laws, Earth-Sized Rogue Planet, Forest Regrowth, Lava PlanetWhos That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Bee BallsDumbest Thing of the Week: Magic LampScience or Fiction

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    Episode #799 - October 31st, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Pandemic Holidays, Water on the Moon, Murder Hornets Murdered, High Value Plastic, Exoplanet View of EarthWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Superconductors and Computers, Beef and Climate ChangeInterview with James RandiScience or Fiction

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    Episode #798 - October 24th, 2020

    RIP James RandiInterview with Richard WisemanNews Items: Mapping the Proteome, Room Temperature Superconductivity, Falling BiodiversityWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #797 - October 17th, 2020

    Interview with Paul ThibadoNews Items: Excess Deaths from Pandemic, When Satellites Collide, Humans Evolving Extra Blood VesselWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Time and TrafficScience or Fiction

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    Episode #796 - October 10th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateScott Lilienfeld RememberedNews Items: Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Circuit Creates Limitless Power, Ouija Board NonsenseWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: German Alphabet and Coal Fired PlantsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #795 - October 3rd, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateWhat's The Word: DecrementNews Items: Electric Vehicles and Climate Change, Black Holes and Wormholes, Neanderthals and Y Chromosomes, Paranormal Naval ShipsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Time Travel ParadoxScience or Fiction

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    Episode #794 - September 26th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Better Batteries, Perovskite Solar Cells, Perception of Time, Rewiring the Brain, The 2020 IgNobelsWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #793 - September 19th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateForgotten Superheroes of Science: June AlmeidaNews Items: Life on Venus, QAnon, Taxonomy of Lying and Cheating, AI Peer ReviewWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Bear Follow Up, Burning ForestsScience or Fiction

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    Episode #792 - September 12th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: AI to Detect Deep Fakes, The Neuroscience of Stuttering, Undead Fears, Mighty Mouse in Space, Fake ReviewsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Panspermia AgainScience or Fiction

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    Episode #791 - September 5th, 2020

    Interview with Tim Dodd-The Everyday AstronautCovid-19 UpdateNews Items: Nuclear Diamond Batteries, Instant COVID Testing, Blanets, Detecting Alien BiochemistryWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Stargazing PermitScience or Fiction

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    Episode #790 - August 29th, 2020

    Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19News Items: Recyclable Plastic, Honey Cure, Super Endurance, Supernova and Mass ExtinctionWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Vibrations for StressScience or Fiction

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    Episode #789 - August 22nd, 2020

    COVID UpdateNews Items: Oleandra Snake Oil, Moon Capsules, Vision Debate, Black Dwarf Supernova, Pentagon UFO Task ForceWho's That NoisyName That Logical Fallacy: Do Your Own ResearchScience or Fiction

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    Episode #788 - August 15th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Quackery in Afghanistan, The Russian Vaccine, CNO Neutrinos, TESS Exoplanet Mission, Huge Lave TubesYour Questions and E-mails: Benford's LawScience or Fiction

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    Episode #787 - August 8th, 2020

    Live from NECSS 2020What's the Word: PerseveranceYour Number's Up: Absolute ZeroNews Items: Climate Sensitivity, Massive Research Fraud, Sexual Parasitism and Immune FunctionScience or Fiction

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    Episode #786 - August 1st, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: 5G and COVID-19, The Technology of Getting to Mars, Prayer is Not Medicine, Fake MediumsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Predicting the Pandemic5-10 Years - Battery BreakthroughScience or Fiction

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    Episode #785 - July 25th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Human Curiosity, Twitter Bans QAnon, Uncuttable material, Bunny EbolaWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Shellenberger LetterScience or Fiction

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    Episode #784 - July 18th, 2020

    Interview with Stephon AlexanderGrant Imahara DiesNews Items: Dog Years Myth, Fighting Climate Change with Crushed Rock, Perception and Filtering, Unused EM SpectrumWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #783 - July 11th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Roundness Bias, Pooled Testing, Insect Feed, Nuclear Thermal PropulsionWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Pasteurization, Police Shooting RetractionScience or Fiction

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    Episode #782 - July 4th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateWhat's the Word: Water CausticsNews Items: Raw Milk, Monster Quasar, Asteroid Really Killed the Dinosaurs, Visualizing DataWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #781 - June 27th, 2020

    COVID-19 and Air PurifiersNews Items: Electrified Masks, Black Neutron Stars, Vaccine Nationalism, Tennis Star Gets COVID-19Who's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Where Did the Towers GoScience or Fiction

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    Episode #780 - June 20th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Brain on a Chip, Twistronics, Drake Remix, Editing Human EmbryosWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Policing Use of ForceScience or Fiction

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    Episode #779 - June 13th, 2020

    Interview with Angela SainiCOVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Seeing Color, fMRI Research, Fast Radio Burst OriginWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: ISS UpdateScience or Fiction

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    Episode #778 - June 6th, 2020

    Update on COVID-19News Items: More Accurate Time of Death, SpaceX and ISS, Police Brutality Breeds Distrust, Journalists and UFOs, Will Your Dog Rescue YouWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Talking and BreathingScience or Fiction

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    Episode #777 - May 30th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Loners and Swarms, Dinosaur Asteroid Impact, Backward Time Universe, Why Beards, Solving Space JunkWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Electrical Stimulation TreatmentScience or Fiction

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    Episode #776 - May 23rd, 2020

    Guest Rogue David CheesemanCOVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Online Symptom Checkers, Crewed Dragon Final Test, Robot Boots, Small Modular Nuclear ReactorsWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Inventor of E-mailScience or Fiction

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    Episode #775 - May 16th, 2020

    Interview with Gerald PosnerCOVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Do Facemasks Work, Carbon Dioxide and the Pandemic, Distrust of Expertise Online, Closest Black HoleWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: R-NaughtScience or Fiction

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    Episode #774 - May 9th, 2020

    Special Guest: Richard SaundersCOVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Wandering Magnetic Poles, Air Plasma Jet Propulsion, Hydrogen Breathers, Murder Hornets, Prayer for COVID-19Premium Wine CardsWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #773 - May 2nd, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: New Row of Periodic Table, Safest Coffee, Pentagon UFO Videos, Malaria VaccineWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Informed ConsentScience or Fiction

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    Episode #772 - April 25th, 2020

    Covid-19 UpdateNews Items: The Science Frontier, Bizarre Bacteria, UV Light and Covid-19, Diamond Energy Storage, Reproducing Cactus CoralWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: False NegativesScience or Fiction

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    Episode #771 - April 18th, 2020

    Covid-19 UpdateNews Items: Coronavirus Deaths in New York, Sterilizing Masks, Oldest String, Demand Characteristics, Lunar Radio TelescopeWho's That NoisyName That Logical FallacyYour Questions and E-mails: Potent VenomScience or Fiction

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    Episode #770 - April 11th, 2020

    Interview with Kevin Peter HandCOVID-19 UpdateWhat's The Word: FomiteNews Items: 5G and COVID-19, The TP Hubbub, Mining Space, Comet AtlasWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #769 - April 4th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: Don't Drink Poison, Decoding Speech from Brainwaves, Using Urine to Build a Moon Base, Evolution of Land PlantsWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #768 - March 28th, 2020

    COVID-19 UpdateNews Items: COV-2 Has Natural Origin, Snake Oil Kills, Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, Cannabinoids for Acute Pain, Why Do Females Live LongerWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #767 - March 21st, 2020

    5-10 Years - Arsenic Based LifeNews Items:Hoarders of the Pandemic, Evolution of Anxiety, Extreme Depth of Focus Lens, Predicting the PresentWho's That NoisyYour Questions and E-mails: Neonatal Vitamin KScience or Fiction

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    Episode #766 - March 14th, 2020

    What's the Word: MoietyNews Items: Shorter Day in Past, Handwashing, CAM for Coronavirus, Lift Follow UpWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction

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    Episode #765 - March 7th, 2020

    Interview with Ann DruyanSwindler's List: Tax ScamsNews Items: Dinosaur Proteins and DNA, Wetlands vs Levees, Largest ExplosionWho's That NoisyScience or Fiction