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Episode #1036

05/17/2025

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

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  • 2025
    1017 - 1036
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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • 2024
    965 - 1016
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    Episode #1016 - December 28th, 2024

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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Episode #1005 - October 12th, 2024

    EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/skepticsguide Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!
    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

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    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

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    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

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    Episode #1002 - September 21st, 2024

    Check out Surfshark
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    Quickie with Steve: Minimoon
    News Items: Dead Internet Theory, Classroom CRISPR, CAM Market, ADHD Increasing
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Changing Names, Net Metering and Residential Solar
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #1001 - September 14th, 2024

    Check out Surfshark
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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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

    • Download

    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

  • 2023
    913 - 964
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    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

    • Download

    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • 2022
    860 - 912
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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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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 Article
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food Diet
    Science or Fiction

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    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

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    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

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    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

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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 Detection
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Communicating Skepticism
    Science or Fiction

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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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 Acupuncture
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Does Smelling Equal Exposure
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    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

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    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

  • 2021
    808 - 859
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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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
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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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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 Overdose
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy

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    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

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    Episode #830 - June 5th, 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

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    Episode #829 - May 29th, 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

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    Episode #828 - May 22nd, 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

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    Episode #827 - May 15th, 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

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    Episode #826 - May 8th, 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

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    Episode #825 - May 1st, 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

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    Episode #824 - April 24th, 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

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    Episode #823 - April 17th, 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

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    Episode #822 - April 10th, 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

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    Episode #821 - April 3rd, 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

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    Episode #820 - March 27th, 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

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    Episode #819 - March 20th, 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

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    Episode #818 - March 13th, 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

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    Episode #817 - March 6th, 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

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    Episode #816 - February 27th, 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

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    Episode #815 - February 20th, 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

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    Episode #814 - February 13th, 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

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    Episode #813 - February 6th, 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

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    Episode #812 - January 30th, 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

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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 Disclosure
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Q-Anon and Game Design
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #810 - January 16th, 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

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    Episode #809 - January 9th, 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

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    Episode #808 - January 2nd, 2021

    Psychic Predictions
    News Items: New SARS-CoV-2 Variant, Satellites Made From Wood, Quantum Computing Advance
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #807 - December 26th, 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

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    Episode #806 - December 19th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update: Vaccine and Home Testing
    News Items: Arecibo Telescope, AI Predicting Weather, Manipulated by Robots, Genetically Engineered Pigs, Asteroid Sample Return
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Historicity of Jesus
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #805 - December 12th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Chuck Yeagar dies at 97, The Smellicopter, COVID Anti-Vaxxers, Are We Ready for Aliens
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Protein Folding
    Name That Logical Fallacy: More Slippery Slope
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #804 - December 5th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: The Home of Jesus, Ancient Seeds, Treatment for Progeria, Protein Folding Solved, ISS Longevity
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Principia Follow Up
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Slippery Slope
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #803 - November 28th, 2020

    COVID Vaccine Update
    News Items: The Popularity of Principia, Supersized Wind Turbines, A Magnetar is Born, Plant Personality
    Special Report: The Truth about Galileo
    Whos That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Racial Bias
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #802 - November 21st, 2020

    COVID-19 Vaccine Update
    News Items: Resisting Facial Recognition, Farming Mars, Sound Beaming, Hydrogen from Ammonia
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Rankine Scale
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #801 - November 14th, 2020

    COVID-19 Vaccine
    News Items: 3D Printing with Bacteria, Prebunking, Real Cause of Light Pollution, Physics Paradox Solved, Nuclear Thermal Engines
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Throw-Away Journals
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #800 - November 7th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Amulets for COVID, Right to Try Laws, Earth-Sized Rogue Planet, Forest Regrowth, Lava Planet
    Whos That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bee Balls
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Magic Lamp
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #799 - October 31st, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Pandemic Holidays, Water on the Moon, Murder Hornets Murdered, High Value Plastic, Exoplanet View of Earth
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Superconductors and Computers, Beef and Climate Change
    Interview with James Randi
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #798 - October 24th, 2020

    RIP James Randi
    Interview with Richard Wiseman
    News Items: Mapping the Proteome, Room Temperature Superconductivity, Falling Biodiversity
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #797 - October 17th, 2020

    Interview with Paul Thibado
    News Items: Excess Deaths from Pandemic, When Satellites Collide, Humans Evolving Extra Blood Vessel
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Time and Traffic
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #796 - October 10th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    Scott Lilienfeld Remembered
    News Items: Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Circuit Creates Limitless Power, Ouija Board Nonsense
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: German Alphabet and Coal Fired Plants
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #795 - October 3rd, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    What's The Word: Decrement
    News Items: Electric Vehicles and Climate Change, Black Holes and Wormholes, Neanderthals and Y Chromosomes, Paranormal Naval Ships
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Time Travel Paradox
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #794 - September 26th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Better Batteries, Perovskite Solar Cells, Perception of Time, Rewiring the Brain, The 2020 IgNobels
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #793 - September 19th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: June Almeida
    News Items: Life on Venus, QAnon, Taxonomy of Lying and Cheating, AI Peer Review
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bear Follow Up, Burning Forests
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #792 - September 12th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: AI to Detect Deep Fakes, The Neuroscience of Stuttering, Undead Fears, Mighty Mouse in Space, Fake Reviews
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Panspermia Again
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #791 - September 5th, 2020

    Interview with Tim Dodd-The Everyday Astronaut
    Covid-19 Update
    News Items: Nuclear Diamond Batteries, Instant COVID Testing, Blanets, Detecting Alien Biochemistry
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Stargazing Permit
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #790 - August 29th, 2020

    Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19
    News Items: Recyclable Plastic, Honey Cure, Super Endurance, Supernova and Mass Extinction
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Vibrations for Stress
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #789 - August 22nd, 2020

    COVID Update
    News Items: Oleandra Snake Oil, Moon Capsules, Vision Debate, Black Dwarf Supernova, Pentagon UFO Task Force
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Do Your Own Research
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #788 - August 15th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Quackery in Afghanistan, The Russian Vaccine, CNO Neutrinos, TESS Exoplanet Mission, Huge Lave Tubes
    Your Questions and E-mails: Benford's Law
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #787 - August 8th, 2020

    Live from NECSS 2020
    What's the Word: Perseverance
    Your Number's Up: Absolute Zero
    News Items: Climate Sensitivity, Massive Research Fraud, Sexual Parasitism and Immune Function
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #786 - August 1st, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: 5G and COVID-19, The Technology of Getting to Mars, Prayer is Not Medicine, Fake Mediums
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Predicting the Pandemic
    5-10 Years - Battery Breakthrough
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #785 - July 25th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Human Curiosity, Twitter Bans QAnon, Uncuttable material, Bunny Ebola
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Shellenberger Letter
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #784 - July 18th, 2020

    Interview with Stephon Alexander
    Grant Imahara Dies
    News Items: Dog Years Myth, Fighting Climate Change with Crushed Rock, Perception and Filtering, Unused EM Spectrum
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #783 - July 11th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Roundness Bias, Pooled Testing, Insect Feed, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Pasteurization, Police Shooting Retraction
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #782 - July 4th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    What's the Word: Water Caustics
    News Items: Raw Milk, Monster Quasar, Asteroid Really Killed the Dinosaurs, Visualizing Data
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #781 - June 27th, 2020

    COVID-19 and Air Purifiers
    News Items: Electrified Masks, Black Neutron Stars, Vaccine Nationalism, Tennis Star Gets COVID-19
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Where Did the Towers Go
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #780 - June 20th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Brain on a Chip, Twistronics, Drake Remix, Editing Human Embryos
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Policing Use of Force
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #779 - June 13th, 2020

    Interview with Angela Saini
    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Seeing Color, fMRI Research, Fast Radio Burst Origin
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: ISS Update
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #778 - June 6th, 2020

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

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    Episode #777 - May 30th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Loners and Swarms, Dinosaur Asteroid Impact, Backward Time Universe, Why Beards, Solving Space Junk
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Electrical Stimulation Treatment
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #776 - May 23rd, 2020

    Guest Rogue David Cheeseman
    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Online Symptom Checkers, Crewed Dragon Final Test, Robot Boots, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Inventor of E-mail
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #775 - May 16th, 2020

    Interview with Gerald Posner
    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Do Facemasks Work, Carbon Dioxide and the Pandemic, Distrust of Expertise Online, Closest Black Hole
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: R-Naught
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #774 - May 9th, 2020

    Special Guest: Richard Saunders
    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Wandering Magnetic Poles, Air Plasma Jet Propulsion, Hydrogen Breathers, Murder Hornets, Prayer for COVID-19
    Premium Wine Cards
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #773 - May 2nd, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: New Row of Periodic Table, Safest Coffee, Pentagon UFO Videos, Malaria Vaccine
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Informed Consent
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #772 - April 25th, 2020

    Covid-19 Update
    News Items: The Science Frontier, Bizarre Bacteria, UV Light and Covid-19, Diamond Energy Storage, Reproducing Cactus Coral
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: False Negatives
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #771 - April 18th, 2020

    Covid-19 Update
    News Items: Coronavirus Deaths in New York, Sterilizing Masks, Oldest String, Demand Characteristics, Lunar Radio Telescope
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Potent Venom
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #770 - April 11th, 2020

    Interview with Kevin Peter Hand
    COVID-19 Update
    What's The Word: Fomite
    News Items: 5G and COVID-19, The TP Hubbub, Mining Space, Comet Atlas
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #769 - April 4th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: Don't Drink Poison, Decoding Speech from Brainwaves, Using Urine to Build a Moon Base, Evolution of Land Plants
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #768 - March 28th, 2020

    COVID-19 Update
    News Items: COV-2 Has Natural Origin, Snake Oil Kills, Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, Cannabinoids for Acute Pain, Why Do Females Live Longer
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #767 - March 21st, 2020

    5-10 Years - Arsenic Based Life
    News Items:Hoarders of the Pandemic, Evolution of Anxiety, Extreme Depth of Focus Lens, Predicting the Present
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Neonatal Vitamin K
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #766 - March 14th, 2020

    What's the Word: Moiety
    News Items: Shorter Day in Past, Handwashing, CAM for Coronavirus, Lift Follow Up
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #765 - March 7th, 2020

    Interview with Ann Druyan
    Swindler's List: Tax Scams
    News Items: Dinosaur Proteins and DNA, Wetlands vs Levees, Largest Explosion
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #764 - February 29th, 2020

    Your Number's Up: The Speed of Light
    News Items: How Planes Fly, Binaural Beats, Non-Breathing Animal, Rocketman Dies in Crash
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Seahawks, SGU 2035
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #763 - February 22nd, 2020

    News Items: Oldest Crater and Snowball Earth, The Broomstick Challenge, Hypoallergenic Cats, Betelgeuse, Supernova, and Neutrinos, Genetics of Dating
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #762 - February 15th, 2020

    Live from Melbourne
    SGU 2035
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #761 - February 8th, 2020

    News Items: Coronavirus Update, Proxima B Climate, Drug Development with AI, Frame Dragging System, Scream Therapy
    George Hrab Asks the Rogues Questions
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #760 - February 1st, 2020

    What's the Word: Ablation
    News Items: Does Information have Mass, Fight Fat with Salt and Ice, Where Does Poop Go, Solar Scam
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Kinesio Tape
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #759 - January 25th, 2020

    News Items: New Coronavirus, Proxima C, Wulong bohaiensis, Cancer Discovery, Marshmallow test revisited, Stress and Gray Hair
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #758 - January 18th, 2020

    Interview with Joe Carvalko
    News Items: Xenobots, Goop on Netflix, Oldest Material on Earth, UFOs and National Security, Goldilocks Stars
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: England and Wales
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #757 - January 11th, 2020

    Psychic Predictions 2019 Review
    News Items: Virtual Humans, GM Trees, Australian Fires, Engrams, Puffin Tool Use
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #756 - January 4th, 2020

    Live from LA with special guest, George Hrab
    Talking to true believers
    Science or Fiction

  • 2019
    704 - 755
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    Episode #755 - December 28th, 2019

    2019 Year End Review
    In Memoriam
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #754 - December 21st, 2019

    Live from Melbourne Australia
    Your Number's Up: Hubble's Constant
    News Items: Does wearing a face mask prevent disease?, Perineum Sunbathing, Redacting Animal Sex, The SCAN Scam, Horizontal Gene Transfer and Plants, Measles Update, Tracking Meteors
    Australian Pseudoscience: Chiropractors, Clean Coal, and Supplementation
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #753 - December 14th, 2019

    Live from New Zealand Skeptics Conference
    News Items: Place With No Life, Superhydrophobicity, Insect on Mars, Political Anti-science, Does Adversity Increase Resilience, Climate Tipping Points, Oldest Dog, Pathway to Conspiracy Theories
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #752 - December 7th, 2019

    Special Guests - Richard Wiseman and George Hrab
    Wiseman Interviews the Rogues on Skepticism
    Audience Q&A
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #751 - November 30th, 2019

    Special Guest - Richard Saunders
    News Items: Sex Robots, Acupuncture Points Don't Exist, Nuclear Rockets, Fake News and False Memory
    Psychic Detectives in Australia
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #750 - November 23rd, 2019

    Special Guest - Fraser Cain of Universe Today
    Open discussion with Fraser about all things astronomy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #749 - November 16th, 2019

    What I Learned: Antimicrobial Copper
    News Items: AI Will to Survive, First Cyborg, Confessions of an Astrologer, National Parks and Mental Health, Meat from Air
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Craniometry Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #748 - November 9th, 2019

    5-10 Years: Growing Livers
    News Items: Bacterial Colonies, Does Music Make You Smarter, Measles and Immunity, Bill Maher Anti-Vaxxer
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #747 - November 2nd, 2019

    News Items: Starship, New Kind of Black Hole, Organic Farming and Golden Rice, Craniometry
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Scam, Solar Minimum
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #746 - October 26th, 2019

    Special Segment: Are We All Hypocrites
    News Items: Prime Editing, Aluminum Air Batteries, The Blob, Holotropic Breathwork
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #745 - October 19th, 2019

    What's the Word: Leucism
    News Item: New NASA Spacesuits, Recycling Nuclear Fuel, Galactic Eruption, Searching for Earhart's Plane
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: More on Meat
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #744 - October 12th, 2019

    Interview with Bruce Hood
    5-10 Year Follow Up: Fairy Circles
    News Items: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
    Electric Jet Engines
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #743 - October 5th, 2019

    Your Numbers Up: 666
    News Items: Red Meat Controversy, Reusing Batteries, Bronze Age Baby Bottles, Planet Nine Black Hole
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Flu Vaccine and Herd Immunity
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #742 - September 28th, 2019

    5-10 Year: Dinochicken
    News Items: Fat Shaming, Warp Drive, TVs and Phones Communicating, Second Interstellar Object
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Survivorship Bias
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #741 - September 21st, 2019

    News Items: 42, Eradicating Polio, Reverse Aging, Red Mercury, Crystal Healing, Biggest Neutron Star
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #740 - September 14th, 2019

    News Items: Super Lightening, 20-Year Battery, NDE Study, CRISPR Trials, Holy Water Trial
    Quickie: Loch Ness DNA
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #739 - September 7th, 2019

    News Items: Carrington Event 160 Year Anniversary, Storm Area 51, Hurricane Dorian, Australopithecus anamensis, Human Effects on Environment, Genome Wide Association Study of Same Sex Behavior, Pluto Is Still Not a Planet
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #738 - August 31st, 2019

    News Items: Extragalactic Exoplanets, Denisovan Teeth, Climate Change and Clouds, Planting Trees
    What Do You Want For Your Funeral
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #737 - August 24th, 2019

    5-10 Years: Solar Roads
    News Items: Wind Turbines, Bleach for Autism, Grain-Free Dog Food, Terraforming Mars
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #736 - August 17th, 2019

    Your Numbers Up, News Items: Banana Fungus, Epstein Conspiracy, Weber's Law
    Who's That Noisy
    Changing the Calendar
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #735 - August 10th, 2019

    News Items: Video Game Violence, Public Trusts in Scientists, Robot Workers, New Type of Star, Detecting Planet Cores
    Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: TMT Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #734 - August 3rd, 2019

    What's the Word: Buffering
    News Items: Signals from Earth, Acupuncture for Angina, Asteroid Near Miss, Rainmakers, Lyme Conspiracy
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Law of Truly Large Numbers
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #733 - July 27th, 2019

    Whaddya Know: Beryllium
    News Items: Telescope Protests, LightSail 2, Free Speech vs Professional Licensing, Autism Genetic, Bird Conspiracy
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #732 - July 20th, 2019

    Live from NECSS
    News Items: Apollo Video, Moon Strategy, Artificial Gravity, High Resolution MRI of the Brain, Gorilla Society
    SGU Taste Test
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #731 - July 13th, 2019

    5-10 Years: Recorded Future
    News Items: Eating Jellies, Rebutting Denialism, Cancer Quackery on YouTube, Detecting Earthquakes
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #730 - July 6th, 2019

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science
    News Items: The Bystander Effect, Drones on Titan, Simulating the Universe
    Your Questions and E-mails: Lactic Acid, Climate Change
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #729 - June 29th, 2019

    Interview with Evan Saitta about Dinosaur Proteins
    News Items:Deep Space Atomic Clock, Printing Vaccines, Carbon Capture, Horny Kids
    Who's That Noisy
    E-mails and Questions: Thai Language, Audio Pareidolia
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #728 - June 22nd, 2019

    Interview with Richard Wiseman
    5-10 Years: Contact Lens TVs
    News Items: Radioactive Energy Cards, Hungry Brain Puppy Dog Eyes
    Who's That Noisy
    Chernobyl Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #727 - June 15th, 2019

    News Items: Theory of Everything, FBI Bigfoot Files, Starlink, Evaluating Chernobyl
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Closest Planet, Married Bliss
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #726 - June 8th, 2019

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Anne Dagg
    News Items: WHO and TCM, Solar Cell Defect Solved, Mutation Affects HIV and Flu, Defense Lasers
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Closest Planet
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #725 - June 1st, 2019

    News Items: Hyperloop Update, Smart Clothing, Misreporting Medical News, Murray Gell-Mann Dies, Happiness
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bandwidth
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #724 - May 25th, 2019

    News Items: Life on Mars, Stem Cell Scams, Mandatory Vaccines, NASA Moon Base Plans
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Jevon's Paradox
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #723 - May 18th, 2019

    Interview with Dark Matter specialist, Bjeorn Penning
    News Items: 5G is Coming, Hardy Exoplanets, Moonquakes, Don't Farm Octopuses
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #722 - May 11th, 2019

    Interview with Daniel Clark, Director of Behind the Curve
    News Items: Reporting UFOs, Phosphorene Nanoribbons, Hearables
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #721 - May 4th, 2019

    Live from Bethlehem with guest George Hrab
    News Items: Reading the Brain, JAMA on Medical Misinformation, Thanos Apocalypse, Fake Gay Cure
    Skeptical Experiences
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #720 - April 27th, 2019

    News Items: Energy Free Cooling, First Molecule, Reviving Pig Brains, Fake Miracle Cure
    Who's That Noisy
    Your questions and E-mails: Journal Reliability
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #719 - April 20th, 2019

    News Items: FDA on GMO Labeling, Tabletop Fusion, Light Pollution, Another Mars Bacteria Claim, Biosynthetic Computer
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Flying Cars
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #718 - April 13th, 2019

    News Items: Quantum Acupuncture, Flying Cars and Space Planes, Picture of Black Hole, Quantum Engine
    Who's That Noisy
    Questions and E-mails: Mexican Wave, Plastic Bags
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #717 - April 6th, 2019

    News Items: Fossils from the KT, Brain Scans as Evidence, Mars Methane Mystery, AI Designed Materials
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: NASA Space Suits, Flat Earth Fail
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #716 - March 30th, 2019

    Guest Rogue - Tyler Black
    News Items: Back to the Moon, Get Rid of Statistical Significance, Alcosynth, Predicting Suicide, Coal vs Renewables
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #715 - March 23rd, 2019

    Whaddya Know: Animals and Music
    News Items: Black Holes and Space Travel, Sugary Drinks and Heart Disease, Electrical Stimulation for Depression
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Questions and E-mails: Atomic Clocks, GMOs
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #714 - March 16th, 2019

    Interview with Peter de Jager
    News Items: Release of Golden Rice, How Intelligent is AI, Atomic Clock May Replace GPS System
    Who's That Noisy
    Questions and E-mails: Audio book, Champing at the Bit
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #713 - March 9th, 2019

    News Items: Fake Sex Doctor, Psychic Sting, Homeopaths in Honduras, Seeing Infrared
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Global Warming Edition
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #712 - March 2nd, 2019

    What's the Word: Plenum
    News Items: Expanded DNA Code, Quark Matter, Ancient Mobility, OneWeb Flies, Signature of Consciousness
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #711 - February 23rd, 2019

    News Items: Warning About Big Data in Science
    Live from the AAAS: What Is Scientific Skepticism
    Science or Fiction
    Who's That Noisy
    Follow Up on Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Insect Apocalypse

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    Episode #710 - February 16th, 2019

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Lee
    News Items: Caring About Robots, Concrete Battery, Insect Collapse, Asteroid Mining
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #709 - February 9th, 2019

    News Items: Who Was Robin Hood, Medical Errors, Magnetic North Pole, Celery Juice, CRISPR Update
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #708 - February 2nd, 2019

    What's the Word: Prosody
    News Items: Cure for Cancer?; Liquid Fuel from Sunlight; Metallic Wood; Oldest Rock
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #707 - January 26th, 2019

    Whaddya Know: Periodic Table
    News Items: Measles Hotspot, New Atom Smasher, Mapping the Brain, Animals in Winter
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #706 - January 19th, 2019

    News Items: Microbes on Mars, Memory Works Backwards, Elephants without Tusks, Dunning Kruger and GMOs, Room Temperature Superconductivity
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Change Around the World, Dangers of AI
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #705 - January 12th, 2019

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nancy Grace Roman
    News Items: Face Scanning for Disease, Cancer Stats and Crowdfunding Quackery, Cleaning Up Ocean Trash, Butterfly Decline, When Galaxies Collide
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Alpha Go Correction, CIA Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #704 - January 5th, 2019

    Predictions for 2018 and 2019
    News Items: Ultima Thule, Magic and Pseudoscience, AI Breakthrough
    Science or Fiction

  • 2018
    652 - 703
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    Episode #703 - December 29th, 2018

    2018 Year End Review
    Best and Worst of 2018
    SGUs Visit to the CIA
    Science News of the Year
    Skeptical Hero and Jackass of the year
    In Memoriam
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #702 - December 22nd, 2018

    Live from London
    SGU Guide to Americanisms
    Which Movies Need Sequels
    Air Dryers vs Paper Towels
    Classic Pseudoscience: ESP, Piltdown Man, Loch Ness Monster, UFOs
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #701 - December 15th, 2018

    Interview with Susan Gerbic
    Guest Rogue Brian Trent
    What's the Word: Philopatry
    News Items: Release Active Drugs, Voyage 2 Update, Fast Radio Bursts Alien Hypothesis, China's Moon Mission, The Chickenocene
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #700 - December 8th, 2018

    Interview with Nick Pyenson
    Living in the era of fake news
    News Items: Back to the Moon, Gene Editing Babies
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #699 - December 1st, 2018

    News Items: Global Warming Report, The New Kilogram, Insight Mars Lander
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Atlantis Claim
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #698 - November 24th, 2018

    QED 2018 Private Show with guest rogue George Hrab
    Audience Q&A
    Personal Heroes
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #697 - November 17th, 2018

    Guest Rogue: Devin Bray
    What's the Word: Cybernetics
    News Items: Earth's Dusty Satellites, How We Think, The Mad Russian, Engineering Photsynthesis
    Is Stuff Real
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #696 - November 10th, 2018

    What's The Word: Agglutination
    News Items: Oumuamua Update, Glasses for Color Blindness, Anti-Gravity, NASA Retires Kepler, New Controversial Opioid
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #695 - November 3rd, 2018

    Live from Cambridge
    Complete the Science Headline
    News Items: Reliability vs Validity, Soyuz Failed Launch, Hot Jupiters, Bottom Baryons, UFO Government Waste, What Is Psychopathy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #694 - October 27th, 2018

    Live from QED 2018
    Special Guest: Michael Marshall
    Name That Pseudoscience
    News Items: GMO-Free Himalayan Salt, Drugs in your Supplements, Fast Radio Burst Update, How Many Faces Do You Know, The Surface of Europa, Black Holes and Dark Matter, Latest IPCC Report
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #693 - October 20th, 2018

    SGU Debate Club - GM Humans, Is College for Everyone, Book vs Movie - Q and A

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    Episode #692 - October 13th, 2018

    What's the Word: Epistocracy
    News Items: Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies, Monkeys and Wolves, WHO and TCM, Iron Age Sword, HPV Vaccine Update
    Most Desirable Artifact
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #691 - October 6th, 2018

    Forgotten Superhero of Science: Eunice Newton Foote
    News Items: Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry, Survey on New Age Beliefs
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Traumatic Memory
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #690 - September 29th, 2018

    What's the Word: Pathognomonic
    News Items: Oldest Animal, Mosquito Apocalypse, Asteroid Pics, Croydon Cat Killer, Octopuses on Ecstasy
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Flu Season, That's Crazy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #689 - September 22nd, 2018

    What's the Word: Basionym
    News Items: Space X Flying to the Moon, Proxima b Weather, Wasps Are Important Too, Star vs Planet, Personality Types
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #688 - September 15th, 2018

    What's the Word: Trophic
    News Items: Bogus Personality Tests, Pluto Revisited, Light Sails, Growing Brains
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #687 - September 8th, 2018

    Live from DragonCon
    SGU Book Update
    News Items: CRISPR Halts Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Nudging Asteroids into Earth Orbit, Illusory Control, Evidence of Previous Universes, Shatner on VR, Seeing Only Movement
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #686 - September 1st, 2018

    NECSS Private Show with George Hrab and Hai Ting
    News Items: Why We Yawn, Motivated Reasoning vs Lazy Thinking, Isreali Moon Probe
    Questions from George
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #685 - August 25th, 2018

    What's the Word: Transfect
    News Items: Room Temperature Superconductor Questioned, Teleology and Conspiracies, Kratom Poisoning, Neanderthal Denisovan Child, Neutron Stars
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #684 - August 18th, 2018

    What's the Word: Phenomenology
    News Items: Dunning Kruger Anti-vaccine Edition, Alien Abduction Stories, Smallpox Drug, Roundup Verdict, Schwarzite
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Arable Land
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #683 - August 11th, 2018

    Interview with Sean Carroll
    What's the Word: Orthogonal
    News Items: Remembering is Seeing, Hothouse Tipping Point, Novel Amino Acids, Weird, Rogue Planet, Corporal Punishment
    Who's that Noisy
    Questions and E-mails: Monkeys and Apes
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #682 - August 4th, 2018

    Interview with Robert Kurson, author of Rocket Men
    What's the Word: Stylometry
    News Items: Terraforming Mars, Shifty Eyes, Scutoid
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #681 - July 28th, 2018

    Interview with Alethea Dean
    What's the Word: Stridulation
    News Items: Lake on Mars, Reanalyzing the Drake Equation, In Search Of Reboot, More Energy Nonsense
    Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction

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    Episode #680 - July 21st, 2018

    Live from NECSS 2018 with special guest Bill Nye
    News Items: Time Machine, Iceman's Last Meal, Training for Mars, Cosmic Ray Source, Virtual Reality Therapy, Testing Gravity
    What's the Word: Definitions
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #679 - July 14th, 2018

    What's the Word: Etiology
    News Items: Quantum Woo, Probing the Sun, Bullet Proof, Spider Ballooning, Hogweed
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bio-Degradable Plastics
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #678 - July 7th, 2018

    What's the Word: Adsorption
    News Items: Harlan Ellison Dies, Complex Organic Molecules on Enceladus, Clever Crows, New England Supervolcano, Marshmallow Test Revisited
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Ionizing Radiation
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #677 - June 30th, 2018

    What's the Word: Endophyte
    News Items: DNA Testing, Anti-Smart Meter Pseudoscience, Keeping Ahead of the Expanding Universe, Roots of Alcoholism
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Brit-Bashing
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #676 - June 23rd, 2018

    What's the Word: Vector
    News Items: Video Game Addiction, Continent of Stability, Return of Astrology, Antarctic Ice
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Polio Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #675 - June 16th, 2018

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rachel Carson
    News Items: Lying About Golden Rice, Solar Roads Again, Polio Comeback, Fastest Supercomputer
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #674 - June 9th, 2018

    What's the Word: Hermeneutic
    News Items: Sterile Neutrino, Tardigrade Lifespan, Louis Vuitton Rainmaker, Panspermia Follow Up
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Balance of Nature
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #673 - June 2nd, 2018

    What's the Word: Irruptive
    News Items: Colonizing Mars, Multivitamin Meta-analysis, AI Diagnostics, Musk's Twitter Breakdown
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #672 - May 26th, 2018

    Interview with Jennifer Ouellette
    What's the Word: Sapient vs Sentient
    News Items: Cancer Quackery Death, EM Drive Follow Up, Loch Ness DNA, Largest Salamanders
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Panspermia
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #671 - May 19th, 2018

    What's the Word: Consanguineous
    News Items: Yanny or Laurel, Google Duplex, Falcon-9 Launches, Coffee a Carcinogen, Alien Octopuses
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #670 - May 12th, 2018

    Interview with Adam Becker
    What's the Word: Epiphyte
    News Items: Knowledge of Evolution, Hawaii Volcanic Activity, Spider Silk and Steel, Toxic Moon Dust
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #669 - May 5th, 2018

    Interview with Ethan Winer
    What's the Word: Fallacy
    News Items: Flipping Magnetic Fields, Self-Assembling Space Telescope, JFK Headshot, Growing Brains
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Annealing vs Tempering
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #668 - April 28th, 2018

    Interview with Tobias Fuchslin
    What's the Word: Annealing
    News Items: Echochambers, Organic Solar Cells, Self-Cleaning Coating
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #667 - April 21st, 2018

    News Items: Communicating without Speaking, Nutrition Pseudoscience, Rare Earths, Eating Plastic
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Acidic Food
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #666 - April 14th, 2018

    What's the Word: Demon
    News Items: 666, Buzz Aldrin and Aliens, AI Good and Evil, The Business of Exorcism, The Power of Satan
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Acidic vs Alkiline diet
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #665 - April 7th, 2018

    Interview with Mark Lynas
    What's the Word: Atavism,
    News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer, Robot Bees on Mars, Largest Dinosaurs
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Math, Interstitium Pseudoscience
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #664 - March 31st, 2018

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Emily Rosa
    News Items: Vitamin C Myth, Atacama Mummy, Death by Apitherapy, New Views of Jupiter
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #663 - March 24th, 2018

    What's the Word: Vagility
    News Items: NASA's Hammer, ESP on CBS, Free Speech
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Meat Consumption
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #662 - March 17th, 2018

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Brenda Miller
    News Items: Stephen Hawking Dies, The Brain's Predictive Coding, Daylight Savings Time, Fusion in 15 years?
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Duct Tape and Amelia Earhart
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #661 - March 10th, 2018

    What's the Word: Heritable vs Inheritable
    News Items: Not Too Many Too Soon, Lab Grown Meat, Seeing Around Corners, Opiods No Better
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #660 - March 3rd, 2018

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
    News Items: Low-Fat vs Low-Carb, Moa Genome, Superatomic Semiconductors, Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Meatleg Lives, Conspiracy Theorists
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #659 - February 24th, 2018

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Oscar Micheaux
    News Items: Satellite Broadband, Superbrain Yoga, Video Game Violence
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Cellulose and the Analemma
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #658 - February 17th, 2018

    News Items: Win Against Homeopathy, Life Beneath the Ice, Illuminati, Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots
    What's the Word: Presbyopia
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #657 - February 10th, 2018

    What's the Word: Analemma
    News Items: Falcon Heavy Launch, Egyptian Dinosaurs, Extragalactic Planets, Vulnerability to Fake News
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: GMOs and Glyphosate
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #656 - February 3rd, 2018

    Interview with Brian Dunning and Emery Emery
    News Items: Portable DNA Sequencing, Alternative Treatment for Bears, Acoustic Tractor Beam, Super Blue Blood Moon
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Driverless Cars
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #655 - January 27th, 2018

    Interview with Richard Saunders
    What's the Word: Altricial
    News Items: CES 2018, Space Lasers, Rainbow Dinosaur
    Your Questions and E-mails: Denying Depression
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #654 - January 20th, 2018

    Interview with Richard Wiseman
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sophie Wilson
    News Items: Black Death, Britt Hermes Lawsuit, Fake News Follow Up
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #653 - January 13th, 2018

    What's the Word: Eutrophication
    News Items: Astronaut John Young Dies, Raw Water, Space X Loses Satellite, Human WiFi, Cancer Deaths Declining
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #652 - January 6th, 2018

    What's the Word: Hormesis
    Predictions 2017
    News Items: Protein Folding Breakthrough, Nitrate-Free Bacon, Donkey Hide Snakeoil, Science or Fiction

  • 2017
    600 - 651
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    Episode #651 - December 30th, 2017

    Year end review
    Science 2017
    Best and Worst of 2017
    In Memoriam
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #650 - December 23rd, 2017

    What's the Word: Accretion
    News Items:FDA Regulates Homeopathy, Pentagon UFO Videos, How the Flu Kills, CDC Word Hubbub
    Who's That Noisy
    Interview with Joe Nickel
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #649 - December 16th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Kathleen Drew-Baker
    News Items: Space Policy Directive 1, Group Perception, Ticks Dinosaurs and Amber, Antarctic Extremophiles, Water Cloak
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Earthing
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #648 - December 9th, 2017

    What's the Word: Digitigrade
    News Items: Nearly Complete Hominid Skeleton, Before the Big Bang, The Causes of Science Denial, This is Your Head in a Particle Accelerator
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Chunking, Follow Up on Net Neutrality
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #647 - December 2nd, 2017

    Interview with Britte Hermes
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Hisako Koyama
    News Items: Speciation Event Observed, UK Water Companies Use Dowsing, NET Neutrality, Interstellar Visitor
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #646 - November 25th, 2017

    CSICon Special Recording, with Special Guest: George Hrab
    Skeptical Ghost Stories
    You Don't Know Me Bro
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #645 - November 18th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Swartz Rose
    News Items: Scientists' Warning, Smart Pills, Fact Checking on Facebook, Fast Electron Emissions
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: German
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #644 - November 11th, 2017

    What's the Word: Ontology
    News Items: Risks of Gluten Free, Wormholes, Reversing Cell Aging, Gadolinium Law Suits, Universal Flu Vaccine
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Lava Tubes
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #643 - November 4th, 2017

    Live from CSICon 2017, with special guest, Dr. Rachael Dunlop
    What's the Word: Epistemology
    News Items: Halloween Bad Reporting, Skeptical Activism Down Under, Conspiracy Thinking, Lava Tubes on the Moon, T. rex Arms, Raccoon Intelligence, Millennials and Religion
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #642 - October 28th, 2017

    Private SGU recording made at DragonCon 2017

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    Episode #641 - October 21st, 2017

    What's the Word: Epicenter
    News Items: Climate Sensitiity, More Gravitational Waves, Alleged Abductee Runs for Congress, DNA Evidence
    Movie Review: Bladerunner 2049
    Your Questions and E-mails: Thermos, Mindfulness
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #640 - October 14th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Frances Glessner Lee
    News Items: Debunking Works, Mindfulness Pseudoscience, Columbus Myths, Missing Matter
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Thermos Physics
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #639 - October 7th, 2017

    Interview with Pamela Gay
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Martin Jim Aitken
    News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology, Physics and Chemistry;
    Rocket Travel
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #638 - September 30th, 2017

    What's the Word: Cis-Trans
    News Items: Chocolate Fungus, Mood Affects Flu Shot, Waking from Coma, International Moon Mission, Do Jellies Sleep
    Who's that Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Celsius vs Fahrenheit
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #637 - September 23rd, 2017

    What's the Word: Polymorphism
    News Items: Pirates Ruined the Metric System, New Global Warming Estimate, Quackademic Medicine, Conspiracy Theories are for Losers, Asteroid Mining
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Gravity Train, Space Junk
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #636 - September 16th, 2017

    Interview with Massimo Pigliucci
    What's the Word: Occult
    News Items: Equifax Data Breach, Cassini Grand Finale, Larges Void in the Universe, Microplastics
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #635 - September 9th, 2017

    Live from DragonCon 2017 with special guest Brian Brushwood
    Special: Costumes at DragonCon
    News Items: The Benefits of Vaccines, Conspiracy Personality, Hurricane Harvey, Oldest Hominin Footprints, Heavy Element Creation, More False Claims from Goop, Deorbiting Space Debris, Electric Car Legislation
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #634 - September 2nd, 2017

    What's the Word: Liminal
    News Items: 40 Years of Voyager, Ichthyosaur, Strongest Resistive Magnet, GMO and Dunning Kruger, Banning Mention of Global Warming
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #633 - August 26th, 2017

    Special Guest: Eran Segev
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Baltz
    News Items: Vitamins and Cancer, Panera Marketing Fear, Radio Dish Noise, Outcomes and Gay Marriage, Cyborg Bacteria
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Syzygy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Farts
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #632 - August 19th, 2017

    What's the Word: Eclipse Terminology
    News Items: Concrete Gravity Trains, Backfire Effect, Polio Vaccines from Tobacco Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Alternative Medicine Kills
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Atheist Study Follow up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #631 - August 12th, 2017

    Interview with Jeffrey Hall
    What's the Word: Gestalt
    News Items: Wiring Taste, Portable Neutrino Detector, Are Atheists Moral, Anthrax Killing Chimps
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Almonds
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #630 - August 5th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mildred Dresselhaus
    News Items: Tracking Asteroids, Vaccinating Pets, The Return of Laetrile, Robot Safecrackers
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Recursive
    Your Questions and E-mails: Sonic Boom
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #629 - July 29th, 2017

    In Memorium: Joe Novella
    News Items: NFL Brains, Supersonic Flight, Soft Engines, Measles Vaccination, Moon Express
    What's the Word: Parsimony
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #628 - July 22nd, 2017

    Interview with Michael Mann about climate change and what we can do about it.

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    Episode #627 - July 15th, 2017

    Live from NECSS 2017
    Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders
    Greetings from the ISS
    News Items: The One Law of Robotics, Eusaurophargis dalsassoi, Gravitational Waves and Extra Dimensions, Homeopathy Ban from Pharmacies, Illness from Placentophagy, Planck's Constant, Cleaver Therapy, Disrupting Microphones
    What's the Word: Portmanteau
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Sex and DNA
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #626 - July 8th, 2017

    Live Recording from NECSS 2017 with special guest: George Hrab
    News Items: Glyphosate Update, Chimp vs Human Strength, Sub-2 Hour Marathon, NASA vs Goop
    Skeptical Spoonerisms
    Science or Fiction
    Live Questions: LED Lights, SGU E-mails, Snopes.

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    Episode #625 - July 1st, 2017

    Guest Rogue: Kavin Senapathy
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Virginia Apgar
    News Items: Organic Effect, Hawking on Mars, Science in Court, Solar Eclipse
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #624 - June 24th, 2017

    What's the Word: Nominal
    News Items: Relational Reasoning in Computers, Big Bang Problems, Breatharians, Biodynamic Farming, Coconut Snakeoil
    Questions and E-mails: Metabolism Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #623 - June 17th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Breatrice Shilling
    News Items: Deep Brain Stimulation, Fasting Exercise, The Sixth Extinction, Earliest Modern Human, Stars Born in Pairs
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Volatile
    Questions and E-mails: CRISPR Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #622 - June 10th, 2017

    Movie Review - Alien: Covenant
    News Items: Dinosaur Proteins Questioned, Another Gravitational Wave, Bigelow on Aliens, Don't Put Wasps Nests In Your Vagina
    Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction

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    Episode #621 - June 3rd, 2017

    Interview with Ed Stone
    What's the Word: Epigenetics
    News Items: Mandela Effect, Farming Land Use, Trump's Science Budget
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bible Time Frame
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #620 - May 27th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Julius Youngner
    News Items: Nature and Nurture of Numbers, Daryl Bem Follow Up, Smart Meter Hubbub
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Conceptual Penis
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #619 - May 20th, 2017

    What's the Word: Degenerate
    News Items: Are You Being Watched?, Mechanism Behind Dark Energy, Dinosaur Extinction, Rational Arguments for God?
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Indigenous Science, AI Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #618 - May 13th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lillian Gilbreth
    News Items: Satellite Broadband, Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience, Measles Outbreak, Giant Gas
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Confabulate
    Your Questions and E-mails: Electric Universe
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #617 - May 6th, 2017

    Interview with Marc Randazza
    What's the Word: Exaptation
    News Items: Exercise Metabolism, Earliest Humans in Americas, Cancer Evolution, David Young Update
    Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction

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    Episode #616 - April 29th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Peggy Whitson
    News Items: Worms That Eat Plastic, Artificial Photosynthesis, Historical Jesus, Hobbit Update
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #615 - April 22nd, 2017

    What's the Word: Reovirus
    News Items: Moisture Extinction, Life Without Oxygen, Mind Reading Hype, Alex Jones - Performance Artist
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Processed Food
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #614 - April 15th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Patricia Bath
    News Items: Deep Life, Short and Long Term Memory, Flat Earth, Cassini's Grand Finale
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Convergent
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #613 - April 8th, 2017

    What's the Word: Teleology
    News Items: TM and Violence, Citizen Science and Planet 9, Tentacle Robot, Boeing Deep Space Plans, Death by Turmeric
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Doctors Prescribing Homeopathy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #612 - April 1st, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jane Cooke Wright
    News Items: Redrawing Dinosaur Clade, Bird Evolution, Elon Musk on AI, Smelling Breast Cancer
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Frisson
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #611 - March 25th, 2017

    Guest Rogue: Joshie Berger
    What's the Word: Factoid
    News Items: Cybersecurity and Neuromorphic Chips, Chiropractic Quackery, ASMR
    Special Reports: Animals in the Bible
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #610 - March 18th, 2017

    What's the Word: Fractal
    News Items: New Hominid Skulls, Solar Roadway Disaster, Dark Anti-Vax Conspiracies, Fast Radio Bursts and Aliens
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Tea and Coffee Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #609 - March 11th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Valentina Tereshkova
    News Items: The Science March, Giving Mars a Magnetic Field, Death of the Liberation Procedure, Supersolids
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Saturn V vs Falcon Heavy, Moving the Goalpost vs No True Scotsman
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #608 - March 4th, 2017

    What's the Word: Homologous
    News Items: Nightmare Robot, Returning to the Moon, Digital Age Brain Disorders, The ADHD Controversy
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Tinnitus Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #607 - February 25th, 2017

    Interview with Greg Dash
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Wang Zhenvi
    News Items: Restoring Hearing, Smartphone Tricorder, Science of Smoking Bans, Seven Earth-like Exoplanets
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Pathology
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #606 - February 18th, 2017

    Lawsuit Update
    News Items: Monkey Mirror Test, Immigration and Crime, Human Embryo Editing, Mission to Europa
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Momentum in Sports
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #605 - February 11th, 2017

    Interview with Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen
    What;s the Word: Impedance
    News Items: Super Bowl Drones, GM Wheat, Security Chips
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #604 - February 4th, 2017

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rudolf Diesel
    News Items: Human Pig Chimera, Life Review Experience, Communicating with the Locked In, Homeopathic Teething Products, Metallic Hydrogen
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Centrifugal Force
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #603 - January 28th, 2017

    Movie Review: Hidden Figures
    News Items: Restricting Science Communication, Fish Scales, Another Bogus Acupuncture Study, Video Games and Violence
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Atom
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #602 - January 21st, 2017

    Interview with James Randi
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dorothy Andersen
    News Items: E-Waste, IBM Predicts Future Tech, Returning to the Moon, Two Trillion Galaxies
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #601 - January 14th, 2017

    Interview with David Gorski
    What's the Word: Parallax
    News Items: Colliding Stars, Countering Fake News, Relaxing Music, A New Organ?
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Dino Tail Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #600 - January 7th, 2017

    Guest Rogue: George Hrab
    In Memoriam: Carrie Fisher and Vera Rubin
    Psychic Predictions
    News Items: Motivated Reasoning, Deep Sea Discoveries
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

  • 2016
    547 - 599
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    Episode #599 - December 31st, 2016

    SGU 2016 Year in Review
    Favorite Science News of 2016
    Best and Worst of 2016
    Skeptical Heroes and Skeptical Jackass of 2016, In Memorium
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #598 - December 24th, 2016

    Interview with Brian Switek
    Movie Review: Arrival
    News Items: Better Outcomes from Female Doctors, Wet Ceres, Light from Anti-matter, Purple Food
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #597 - December 17th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Barbara Liskov
    News Items: Trust of Scientists and GMOs, Cryogenic Energy Storage, Deorbiting Space Junk
    What's the Word: In Situ
    Your Questions and E-mails: Premium Gas, Porn Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #596 - December 10th, 2016

    Interview with Marty Klein
    What's the Word: Phylogenetic
    News Items: High Density Supercapacitors, Adaptation vs Evolution, Instacharge Scam
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #595 - December 3rd, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Telkes
    News Items: Fake News and Online Reasoning, Santa Myth, Farmer Ants, Diamond Batteries
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Endemic
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #594 - November 26th, 2016

    What's the Word: Autopoiesis
    News Items: Improving Photosynthesis, Turkey Domestication, EM Drive, Tweaking Mitochondria, Orca Evolving
    Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction

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    Episode #593 - November 19th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Percy Lavon Julian
    News Items: FTC and Homeopathy, Stoern Liquidates, STDs Rising, Finding Antibiotics in the Genome
    What's the Word: Isotropy
    Your Questions and E-mails: P-hacking
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #592 - November 12th, 2016

    What's the Word: Xerophile
    News Items: Wireless Brain-Spine Interface, Arctic Ice, Quantum Time, Hydrinos and Cold Fusion, Male Birth Control Study
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Democratization of Knowledge
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #591 - November 5th, 2016

    Interview with Brian Wecht
    What's the Word: Relict
    News Items: Expanding Universe Follow Up, Mystery Human Ancestor, Alaskan Lake Monster
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Memory, Halloween Candy Tampering
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #590 - October 29th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: David Young
    News Items: Alien Signals, Patient Zero, Expanding Universe, Mars Probe Crash
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #589 - October 22nd, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Stanislav Petrov
    News Items: Musk, Obama and Mars
    Encyclopedia of Life
    Science and Colonialism
    Who's that Noisy
    What's the Word: Taphonomy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #588 - October 15th, 2016

    Interview with David Pratt
    What's the Word: Autophagy
    News Items: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Longevity Debate
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Healthy Foods
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #587 - October 8th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rosa Smith Eigenmann
    News Items: Hawaii Telescope Hubbub, Marijuana Changes the Brain, Brain Training and Power Poses, Listening to Experts
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: ultracrepidarian
    Your Questions and E-mails: Net Metering
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #586 - October 1st, 2016

    What's the Word: Apophenia
    News Items: Europa Venting, Piezoelectric Roads, Unhackable, Change in Astrological Sign
    Who's that Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #585 - September 24th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Elizabeth Barber
    News Items: Tardigrade Radiation Resistance, Resistant Lice, Evolving Bacteria, Moon Formation
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Superfecundation
    Your Questions and E-mails: Lightning Strikes
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #584 - September 17th, 2016

    Special Guest: Ian Harris
    Special Report: Comedy and Skepticism
    News Items: GMO Brinjal, Do Dogs Understand Language, FDA Bans Antibacterial Soap, Space X Explosion
    What's the Word: Comorbidity
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #583 - September 10th, 2016

    Guest Rogue Brian Brushwood
    News Items: Lightning Reindeer Death, Space Train, Juno at Jupiter, Evolving Tasmanian Devils, Finding Galactic Missing Mass
    What's the Word: Thanatosis
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #582 - September 3rd, 2016

    Interview with Seth Shostak
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science:Peter Fleming
    News Items: NASA One Year Mars Simulator, Muscle Confusion, Biofuels Study, Building Solar Panels on the Moon
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Glycolysis
    Your Questions and E-mails: Exoplanet Gravity
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #581 - August 27th, 2016

    What's the Word: Inquiline
    News Items: Proxima Centauri b Confirmed, Anthropocene, World Wide Web 25, The Fight Against Pseudoscience, Pew Belief Poll
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #580 - August 20th, 2016

    Interview with Fraser Cain
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Janet Rowley
    News Items: Chemtrails, Supar Hyperactivity, Augmented Reality and Cognitive Load, Fifth Force
    Who's that Noisy
    What's the Word: Flocculation
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #579 - August 13th, 2016

    Guest Rogue: David Gorski
    What's the Word: Hypnagogia
    News Items: Now You Don't See It, Piltdown Case Closed, Black Hole Back Door, Cupping at the Olympics, Other Olympic Pseudoscience
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #578 - August 6th, 2016

    Interview with Grant Richey
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Elizabeth Rona
    News Items: Young Blood, Electroceuticals, Female Orgasm, Private Moon Mission
    What's the Word: Mondegreen
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Nimrod and Edgy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #577 - July 30th, 2016

    What's the Word: Neotony
    News Items: Vaxxed Lawsuit, Superatoms, Clone Follow Up, What's Cool
    Who's That Noisy
    Special Report: The Science of Race
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #576 - July 23rd, 2016

    Interview with Maria Cork
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Carlos Juan Finlay
    News Items: Replications in Science, Single Atom Data Storage, The Connectome, HAARP, Bio Bot
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Estivation
    Your Questions and E-mails: Snake Follow up, Archaic Words
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #575 - July 16th, 2016

    What's the Word: Apoptosis
    News Items: Solar Panel Impact, Ancient Supernovae, Kubrick Moon Landing Hoax, Neurasthenia, Tiny-Armed Dinosaur, New Dwarf Planet
    Who;s That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #574 - July 9th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Bryce Bayer
    News Items: A Psychiatrist Falls for Exorcism, fMRI Validity, Juno at Jupiter, First Autonomous Car Fatality
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Paroxysmal
    Your Questions and E-mails: Jet Fuel
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #573 - July 2nd, 2016

    What's the Word: Alluvium
    News Items: MEND Protocol, The Cost of Carbon, China's New Supercomputer, Music Chills
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mail:Politics and Gun Control
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #572 - June 25th, 2016

    Interview with Michael Marshall
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Edwards
    News Items: Electric Plane, Naturopathic Licensure, Black Holes and Dark Matter
    What's the Word: Crepuscular
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #571 - June 18th, 2016

    Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders
    News Items: Kinked Nanotubes, Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier, Gun Violence a Public Health Issue, Government Funding Pseudoscience, More Gravity Waves
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week, What's the Word: Eschatology
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #570 - June 11th, 2016

    Interview with David Grossnickle
    What's the Word: Iatrogenic
    News Items: Universe Expanding Faster than Thought, Illusion of Choice, Is Hands Free Safer
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Noel Edmonds
    Your Questions and E-mails: Antibiotics in Mexico, Mythbuster Science
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #569 - June 4th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Andrew Benson
    News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer Again, Total Bacterial Resistance, Bumble Bees Sense Electric Fields, What's Happening to our Oceans
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Cauliflory
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #568 - May 28th, 2016

    Special Guests: Richard Wiseman and Hai-Ting Chinn
    What's the Word: Autotomy
    News Items: Watch Pseudoscience, Tabletop Particle Accelerators, GMO Sugar, Facebook News Algorithm, Blinking
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #567 - May 21st, 2016

    SGU Live from NECSS with special guest: Bill Nye
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Cecilia Helena-Payne Gaposshkin
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Prince Charles and Homeopathy
    News Items: Failure is an Option, Prosecuting Climate Change Denial, Lost Myan City, Why is Space 3D
    What's the Word: Group Animal Names
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #566 - May 14th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Yvonne Brill
    News Items: Growing Human Embryos, Overprescribing Antibiotics, Earth-sized Exoplanets, Mike Adams Slanders Skeptics
    What's the Word: Amphidromic, Questions and E-mails: Muad'Dib
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #565 - May 7th, 2016

    SGU 11 Year Anniversary
    What's The Word: Propaganda
    News Items: Repealing Canadian Science Censorship, Bulletproof Biohacking, Origin of Gravity Waves, Slime Mold Memory
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Talc and Cancer
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #564 - April 30th, 2016

    Interview with Michael Whelan
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Annie Maunder
    News Items: Zinc Flash at Conception, Plant Prion Memory, Parents Convicted in Toddler's Death
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Hyperthymesia
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #563 - April 23rd, 2016

    What's the Word: Geodesic
    News Items: Neural Bypass, Dinosaur Extinction, Universe in the Lab, Genetic Superheroes
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #562 - April 16th, 2016

    What's the Word: Homophily
    News Items: Metal Foam, Pig Heart Transplants, Should We Hide from Aliens, Computer Artists
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Fishmato
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #561 - April 9th, 2016

    What's the Word: words without English equivalents
    News Items: Food Production, Swearing, Laser Propulsion
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Predictions
    Your Questions and E-mails: Carter UFO Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #560 - April 2nd, 2016

    Special Guest: Kevin Folta
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dorothy Hodgkin
    News Items: Ghosts in the Brain, Neuronal Feedback, Tribeca Pulls Anti-Vax Film, Minimal Genome, Vegetarians and Cancer
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Chemiosmosis
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #559 - March 26th, 2016

    What's the Word: Equilux
    News Items: Supernova Shock Wave, Desk Exercise, Angry Suns, Moderate Drinkers and Health
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Shouting Fire
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #558 - March 19th, 2016

    Interview with Bruce Hood
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
    News Items: AI Assistant, Cryotherapy
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Sciolism
    Your Questions and E-mails: Valsalva Revisited, Non-Newtonian Fluids
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #557 - March 12th, 2016

    What's the Word: Thixotrophy
    News Items: Overconfidence, AI vs Go Champion, Minority Report
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Piloting and Valsava
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #556 - March 5th, 2016

    Guest Rogue: George Hrab
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Norman Borlaug
    News Items: Uploading Memories, A Year in Space, Fast Radio Bursts, Imaging Alzheimer's Disease, Galaxy Symmetry
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #555 - February 27th, 2016

    Guest Rogue: Julia Galef
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dr. Moona Hanna-Attisha
    News Items: Air Pollution and Public Health, Mystery Moon Music, Gender Bias Among Programmers
    Who's That Noisy
    Special Report: Free Speech vs Social Justice
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #554 - February 20th, 2016

    Interview with Kevin Folta
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nikolai Vavilov
    News Items: 14 Billion Year Memory, 3D Printing Body Parts, Eating Mammoth
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: David Suzuki
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #553 - February 13th, 2016

    What's the Word: Pleochroism
    News Items: Robotic Chef, Brain Electrodes, Diagnosing Cancer, Gravitational Waves
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: RFID
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #552 - February 6th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lorna Wing
    News Items: Concussions in the NFL, Zika Conspiracy, Planetary Defense System, Lab-Grown Meat
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #551 - January 30th, 2016

    Interview with SciBabe
    What's the Word
    News Items: The Viability of Conspiracies, The Aliens are Dead, Marvin Minsky, Probiotics Hype
    Your Questions and E-mails: Fake Skeptic Scam
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #550 - January 23rd, 2016

    Interview with Craig Good
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Stephanie Louise Kwolek
    News Items: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Charlie Sheen HIV, Arctic Humans, Geckos and Spiderman
    What's the Word: Agnatology
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #549 - January 16th, 2016

    What's the Word: Algorithm
    News Items: Bacterial vs Human Cells, GMO Labeling, Mites Run in the Family, Apple Car, Gravity Waves
    Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #548 - January 9th, 2016

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green
    News Items: FTC Smacks Down Lumosity, Picky Eaters, New Elements
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Fugacity
    Name That Logical Fallacy: Learning Styles
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #547 - January 2nd, 2016

    Psychic Prediction 2015
    News Items: HIV Blood Donations, The Genetics of Intelligence, British Smiles
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word
    Science or Fiction

  • 2015
    495 - 546
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    Episode #546 - December 26th, 2015

    2015 SGU Year in Review

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    Episode #545 - December 19th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: Phil Plait
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: James West
    Special Report: This Year in Astronomy
    News Items: Evil Robots, Hunting for Planet X, Antidepressants and Autism, More Problems for Supplements
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Solar NIMBY
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #544 - December 12th, 2015

    Interview with Michael Shermer
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science-Caroline Herschel
    News Items: More Free Energy, Storing Nuclear Waste, Gene Editing Ethics
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Consilience
    Your Questions and E-mails: Frame Dragging
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Thimerosal Revisited
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #543 - December 5th, 2015

    What's The Word: Hysteresis
    News Items: Male and Female Brains, Bird and Human Voices, Driverless Cars, Deep Nonsense, A Ring for Mars
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Tardigrade Genome
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #542 - November 28th, 2015

    What's the Word: Homeostasis
    News Items: Universe Resolution, Scientific Consensus, Hobbit Update, Gene Drive in Mosquitoes, A Century of General Relativity
    Your Questions and E-mails: Political Questions
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #541 - November 21st, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Birute Mary Galdikas
    News Items: DOJ and Supplements, Armadillos and Leprosy, Sun Stole Mars' Atmosphere, Meier's Paris Predictions
    What's the Word: Albedo
    Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptical Hoaxes, Microgravity
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #540 - November 14th, 2015

    Interview with Simon Singh
    What's The Word: Formication
    News items: Low Calories Sweeteners, Making Metals Stronger, JFK Hitman, Fossilized Brains
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Anxiety in Space, How Much Meat
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #539 - November 7th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Andrea Ghez
    News Items: Poop Power, Parallel Universe, Universe Simulation, 3D Printed Rhino Horns
    Special Report: Science and Faith
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Indolent
    Swindler's List: Ransomware
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #538 - October 31st, 2015

    Interview with Dr. Dean Edell
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Hamilton
    News Items: Red Meat and Cancer, Mega Poop, Tractor Beam, Whole Body Cryotherapy
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Canonical
    Your Questions and E-mails: Tom Hanks and Cancer Quacks, Back to the Future Predicts 9/11
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #537 - October 24th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Sibylla Merian
    News items: Placebos Getting Stronger, Danish Zoo Hubbub, Oswald Backyard Photo, Mars via the Moon
    Special Report: Back to the Future Day
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Consoling Atheists
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #536 - October 17th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Catherine Evans
    News Items: Stellar Mystery, Hallucinations
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Core Sci-Fi
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #535 - October 10th, 2015

    Lawsuit Update
    Forgotten Supervillains of Science
    News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine, and Chemistry, Peer-Reviewing The Martian
    Movie Review: The Martian
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #534 - October 3rd, 2015

    Interview with Andy Weir
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Barbara McClintock
    News Items: Water on Mars, Looking for Life on Mars, Brain Connections, Skeptic vs Denier
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Isograd
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #533 - September 26th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Ruth Rogan Benerito
    News Items: Predatory Pharmaceuticals, Ocean Populations Declining, Election Graphology, Conspiracy Thinking
    Who's That Noisy
    What's the Word: Efferent
    Your Questions and E-mails: Proof of God
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #532 - September 19th, 2015

    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Stone UFO
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Hedy Lamar
    News Items: Solar Hydrogen, Homo naledi, Terraforming Mars, Metallic Glass
    What's the Word: Anosmia
    Your Questions and E-mails: Fibromyalgia
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #531 - September 12th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science:Fritz Haber
    News Items: Night Skies, Thinking Style and Paranormal Belief, Psychic Detectives
    Special Report: Time Travel
    What's the Word
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #530 - September 5th, 2015

    In Memoriam - Oliver Sacks
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Granville Woods
    News Items: Reproduction in Psychology, Brain Booster Drug, Defying the Standard Model, Rock Art Pterodactyl Debunked
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #529 - August 29th, 2015

    Interview with Miles Greb
    Forgotten Superheros of Science
    News Items: Anti-Vax Nonsense, Group Think Lie Detection, WiFi Lawsuit, Universal Flu Vaccine
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #528 - August 22nd, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Frances Kelsey
    News Items: Mars Simulation, Robot Evolution, Naming Exoplanets, Fusion Reactors, Building the Death Star, Does Science Prove God, Sunspots
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #527 - August 15th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Marie Tharp
    News Items: Skin Cells into Brain Cells, Registering Studies, Search Engines Influence Elections, Earth and Moon, Scotland Bans GMOs, Whos That Noisy, Science or Fiction

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    Episode #526 - August 8th, 2015

    Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Inge Lehmann
    News Items: Mystery Booms Solved, Convincing Antivaxxers, Needle Exchange Efficacy, Life on Earth's 'Cousin'
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #525 - August 1st, 2015

    Interview with Kevin Folta
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Gerty Corti
    News Items: EM Drive Revisited, Hope for Malaria Vaccine, Cannabis Oil, Washington DC Sinking
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #524 - July 25th, 2015

    Live from TAM 13
    Interview with James Randi and Ray Hyman
    Introducing Cara Santa Maria
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Henrietta Leavitt
    News Items: Pluto Close Approach, Village on the Moon, Giant Fighting Robots, Depression App, Teaching Science Wrong, New Winged Dinosaur, Pentaquark
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #523 - July 18th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: George Hrab
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Earl Palmer
    News Items: Pluto Update, New Zealand Illegalizes Trolling, New Seralini Study, Biological Age
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Jim Carrey
    Your Questions and E-mails: UFO Cube
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #522 - July 11th, 2015

    Forgotten Superhero of Science: Charles H. Townes
    News Items: New Sleep Recommendations, A Logic Lesson, Dragon Lizards and Climate
    Limits of Phase Change Computer Memory
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Cruciferous Vegetables, Education and Paranormal Belief
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #521 - July 4th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: Joanne Benhamu
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
    News Items: Bionic Lens, Inside Out and Brain Metaphors, Pyramids on Mars and Ceres
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Eddie Van Halen and Discovery Institute
    Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptical Questions
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #520 - June 27th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Vera Rubin
    Movie Review: Jurassic World
    News Items: Breast Milk Snake Oil, Volocopter, Kennewick Man Follow Up, Sixth Extinction
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Kim Jung-un
    Your Questions and E-mails: IT Rant
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #519 - June 20th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jerry Lawson
    News Items: Nutrition Research, Graphene Light Emission, Global Warming Challenge, Philae Wakes Up
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: David Tredinnick
    Your Questions and E-mails: Hive Mind
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #518 - June 13th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Chien Shiug Wu
    News Items: Implantable Electrodes, Biolimbs, Tredinnick Pseudoscience, Darpa Robotics Challenge
    Who's That Noisy
    Special Report: Memento Mori
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #517 - June 6th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Margaret Hamilton
    News Items: Laser Weapons, Chocolate Science Sting, How Many Species, In Memoriam-Dr. Wallace Sampson, Proton Spin
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Rape Statistics, Charity Effectiveness
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #516 - May 30th, 2015

    Interview with Paul Braterman
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Georges Méliès
    News Items: Scam Charities, Creationist Talking Points, Twitter Demons
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Feeders
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #515 - May 23rd, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Sherman Morgan
    Movie Review: Ex Machina
    News Items: Federal Anti-SLAPP, Anti-Bacterial Soap and Cancer, Light-Based Computing, Online Timelapse
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #514 - May 16th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Patrick Matthew
    News Items: Orbo Again, Solar Roadways Test, Glass Delusion, Illusion of Invisibility, Threat to Citizen Science
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Black Box Tech, Buying Local

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    Episode #513 - May 9th, 2015

    SGU 10 year anniversary live streaming event
    Special Guests: George Hrab, Brian Wecht, Julia Galef, Richard Saunders
    News and Discussion Items: Slapping Therapy Death, Black Box Tech, Tesla Home Battery, Podcast Patent Troll
    Science Fiction or Fiction
    Pseudoscience or Fiction

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    Episode #512 - May 2nd, 2015

    Live From New Zealand
    Special Guests Siouxsie Wiles and George Hrab
    This Day in Skepticism: Water on Mars
    News Items: Intermittently Wet Mars, Glowing Bacteria, Dunning Kruger, Dawn Whale, YouTubes Algorithms
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #511 - April 25th, 2015

    Special Guests: Brian Wecht and George Hrab
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Grace Hopper
    News Items: Terror Bird, A Rape on Campus
    Special Report: The Future of the LHC
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #510 - April 18th, 2015

    Special Guest: Bill Nye
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lise Meitner and Ida Tacke
    News Items: Parents No Longer Anti-Vaccine, Noticing Spiders, Solar Sail, NASA-ET Life in 20 Years, Lava Tubes on the Moon
    Special Report: Bill Nye on GMOs
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #509 - April 11th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Fazlur Kahn
    News Items: Self-Driving Cars, Google University, The Size of Aliens, Toxic Oceans, Return of Brontosaurus
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Cults, Power Lifting Suits
    The Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #508 - April 4th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sandra Faber
    News Items: Radio Bursts and Alien Signals, Peer-Review Scandal, Is The World Greener, Gravity Tunnel Revisited
    Special Report: Going Clear
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #507 - March 28th, 2015

    Interview with Chris Patil of Mars One
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Women of ENIAC
    News Items: Titius-Bode Law and Exoplanets, Largest Asteroid Impact, Gold from Crap, FDA and Homeopathy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Composting Follow Up
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: Ted Cruz
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #506 - March 21st, 2015

    Special Guest: Richard Saunders
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Irene Joliot-Curie
    News Items: Australia Pans Homeopathy, NYT and Wearable Tech, LHC Computer Grid, Naturopathy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Composting
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #505 - March 14th, 2015

    Interview with Kevin Folta
    Interview with Marc Randazza-Libel Reform
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Emmy Noether
    News Items: Bright Spots on Ceres, Clinical Science, Gravity Lensing, Edison's Plans to Record the Dead
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #504 - March 7th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: Alan Melikdjanian aka Captain Disillusion
    Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Oswald Avery
    News Items: Dress Color Hubbub, Ranking Websites by Factual Accuracy, Reverse Eyeball Evolution, Dawn at Ceres
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #503 - February 28th, 2015

    Interview with Timothy Caulfield
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Anning
    News Items: Marijuana Safety, Phantom Acupuncture, Liberal and Conservative Biases, Bladderwort Genome
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #502 - February 21st, 2015

    Guest Rogue: Jennifer Dixon
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Katherine Johnson
    News Items: Mammals vs Dinosaurs, Scott Adams on Science, METI Controversy, Anderson Cooper vs Dan Burton, DNA Barcoding of Herbs
    Who's That Noisy
    Dumbest Thing of the Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #501 - February 14th, 2015

    SGU 500 House Party
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Ada Lovelace
    News Items: Making Better Steel, Lars Anderson Archery, Did Williams Lie?
    Dumbest Thing of the Week: V-Steam
    Jewie or Fiction
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #500 - February 7th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: George Hrab
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Charles Drew
    News Items: Scientific vs Public Opinion, Ghost Gadgets, Conservapedia Disproves E=MC2, FDA Cracks Down on Supplements, Gravity Waves Update
    Who's That Noisy
    The Dumbest Thing I Heard This Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #499 - January 31st, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
    News Items: Green Coffee Bean Hoax, Disneyland Measles Outbreak, Galaxy-Sized Wormhole, Fail-Safe for Artificial Life
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Comparing DNA
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Crazy Stuff I Heard this Week
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #498 - January 24th, 2015

    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rosalind Franklin
    Edge Question: Artificial Intelligence
    News Items: The Boy Who Didn't Go to Heaven, Biofortified GMO, Omniprocessor
    Who's That Noisy
    Your Questions and E-mails: Deep Web Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #497 - January 17th, 2015

    Guest Rogue: Cara Santa Maria
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Edward Lorenz
    Movie Review: The Imitation Game
    News Items: Younger Dryas Extinction, Robot Poker, New Antibiotics
    Special Report: Suicide and Depression
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #496 - January 10th, 2015

    Interview with Tim Farley
    Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Annie Jump Cannon
    Psychic Prediction 2014
    News Items: The Science of God, Expected Science in 2015
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #495 - January 3rd, 2015

    SGU Live from Auckland with guest rogue George Hrab
    This Day in Skepticism: Lick Observatory
    News Items: Alternative Cancer Treatments, ESPN Twitter Kerfuffle, The Deep Web, Jet lag Pseudoscience, Gender in Education, Orion Capsule Test, Seeing Infrared
    Science or Fiction

  • 2014
    442 - 494
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    Episode #494 - December 27th, 2014

    SGU 2014 Year in Review
    SGU in 2014, Best and Worst of 2014, 2014 Mashups, Year in Science, In Memoriam
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #493 - December 20th, 2014

    Guest Rogue: George Hrab
    This Day in Skepticism: First Electronic Instrument
    Special Reports: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments
    News Items: DNA Survives Spaceflight, Hong Kong Pillows, Discovering New Particles, Graphene Armor, Survey on Apathy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #492 - December 13th, 2014

    Interview with James Randi
    Special Guests George Hrab and Richard Saunders
    This Day in Skepticism: Last person on the Moon
    News Items: Lunar Mission One, Ginkgo Biloba, Psychic Predicts Airline Crash, Politics vs Science, Nanosculpture, Saving Christmas, Teen Brains
    Special Report: Wind Power
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #491 - December 6th, 2014

    This Day in Skepticism: Polytechnique Massacre
    Live Q&A with SGU listeners

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    Episode #490 - November 29th, 2014

    Interview with Scott Sigler
    This Day in Skepticism: Kinetoscope
    Special Reports: Favorite Pseudoscience
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #489 - November 22nd, 2014

    This Day in Skepticism: JFK Assassination
    Review of Interstellar
    News Items: Landing on a Comet, Feeling of Presence, Doubting the Higgs, Food Babe Nonsense
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #488 - November 15th, 2014

    Interviews with Sheldon Helms and Siouxsie Wiles
    This Day in Skepticism: Sara Josephine Baker
    News Items: New Antibacterial, The Primeval Code, Curiosity Discovery, HAARP Closing, GMO Labeling
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #487 - November 8th, 2014

    Guest Rogue: David Young
    This Day in Skepticism: X-Rays
    News Items: Virgin Galactic Crash, Homeopathy for Ebola, Fanged Deer, Time Undone, Center of our Galaxy, Feng Shui
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #486 - November 1st, 2014

    Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders
    This Day in Skepticism: First Women's Medical School
    News Items: Stem Cell Cancer Treatment, Skydiving Record, The Pope and Evolution, Dowsing in Australia
    Who's That Noisy
    Name That Logical Fallacy
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #485 - October 25th, 2014

    Interview with David Gorski
    This Day in Skepticism: Accutron
    News Items: A TCM Challenge, Stem Cells for Spinal Cord injury, Giants of Arkansas
    Who's That Noisy
    Questions and E-mails: BICEP 2 and Inflation, Jack the Ripper Follow Up
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #484 - October 18th, 2014

    This Day in Skepticism: Venera 4
    News Items: AWARE NDE Study, Living on Mars, E-Cat Cold Fusion, Crocodilians, Sciencey, Sally Morgan Follow Up
    Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Ebola Hysteria
    Science or Fiction

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    Episode #483 - October 11th, 2014

    Guest Rogue: Andy Wilson
    This Day in Skepticism: Meriwether Lewis
    News Items: Nobel Prizes 2014, Rupert Sheldrake, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Sally Morgan's Thugs
    Who's That Noisy
    Science or Fiction

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