Episode #1081

Episode #1081 - March 28th, 2026

Back To Basics: Confirmation Bias
News Items: NASA Announces New Moon Plans, The Limits of Cloning, Giant Insects, Pushing Exorcism, Update on 3I-Atlas
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1080 - March 21st, 2026

Interview with Professor Kristian Andersen
Update on Conspiracy Teacher
News Items: Cannabis Review, AI Agents Breaks Out Of Testing Area, Life On Exomoons, Man Producing Carbon Fiber, Bigfoot Hoax Revealed
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1079 - March 14th, 2026

Back to Basics: Fundamental Attribution Error
News Items: Improved Photosynthesis, Birth of a Magnetar, US Bioweapons Research, False Health Information from Chatbots
Your Questions and E-mails: Consistency
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1078 - March 7th, 2026

Quickie with Bob: Thatcher Effect
News Items: Lunar Chickpeas, Sea Level Rise, Latest Study Shows Reiki Does Not Work, Brain Cells Playing Doom
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Glyphosate Safety
Science or Fiction

Episode #1077 - February 28th, 2026

Swindler's List: Tax Fraud
News Items: Universal Nasal Respiratory Vaccine, Origins of COVID, Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel, Birding Brain Boost
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Starting A Skeptical Group
Science or Fiction

Episode #1076 - February 21st, 2026

News Items: Banana Resistance to Fungal Disease, Drug Advertising, AI Powered Prosthetics, Laser Written Glass Storage, UFO Balloons
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Mental Illness and Culpability
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1075 - February 14th, 2026

Quickie with Evan: Erich von Däniken dies at 90
News Items: Review of ADHD Treatment, Religious Nones, EPA Ends Endangerment Ruling, The Physics of the Quintuple Jump, Crotchgate
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: More on the yellow sun, The Turkey Illusion
Science or Fiction

Episode #1074 - February 7th, 2026

Quickie with Bob: The Death of 8k TV
News Items: Faith-Based Addiction Programs, Noise and Sleep, A Fully Renewable Grid, Moltbook for AI Agents Only
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections
Science or Fiction

Episode #1073 - January 31st, 2026

News Items: Artemis Getting Ready for Launch, New Extinct Branch of Life, Why We Need Wikipedia, Ideological Bias in Research, Expanding the Habitable Zone
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Kesterite Solar Panels
From TikTok: Coincidence?
Science or Fiction

Episode #1072 - January 24th, 2026

What's the Word: Culture
News Items: Increasing Life Expectancy, AI 2027, Deep Reading, Spray on Wound Treatment, Monkeys and AI
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Global Warming Falsifiable
Science or Fiction

Episode #1071 - January 17th, 2026

News Items: Donut Lab's Solid State Battery, Artemis Update, EPA Change, Life on Planets Around Red Dwarfs, Malaysia Air Search Resumes
Special Report: RFK on Vaccines and the Food Pyramid
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Birding and Memory
Science or Fiction

Episode #1070 - January 10th, 2026

Live From Not-A-Con 2025, with guests George Hrab, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Brian Wecht, and Adam Russell
What Are You Most Proud Of
What Is Your Quirky Pet Peeve
If You Could Change One Thing
Here Me Out
Science or Fiction

Episode #1069 - January 3rd, 2026

Psychic Predictions for 2025 and Rogue Predictions
News Items: Psychology Intervention for ADHD, Biological vs Artificial Consciousness, Fentanyl Vaccine, Possibility of Orbital Disaster
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1068 - December 27th, 2025

2025 Year End Review, with special guest Ian 🍉
Best of SGU
Best Science of 2025
Skeptical Hero and Jackass of the Year
In Memoriam
Science or Fiction

Episode #1067 - December 20th, 2025

News Items: Animals Adapting to Humans, Pig Organ Transplants, Japan Plans to Beam Energy from Space, Ant Yogurt, First Evidence of Fire Making
Your Questions and E-mails: Mercury in Fish, Compounding Pharmacies
From TikTok: Inventor of the Diesel Engine
Science or Fiction

Episode #1066 - December 13th, 2025

News Items: Young Cancer, Adapting to Modern Life, Safety of mRNA Vaccines, Cosmic Rays Ground Aircraft, Reverse Aging Claim
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: EU Gene Editing
Who Said That
Science or Fiction

Episode #1065 - December 6th, 2025

News Items: Cognitive Legos, China's Planting Lots of Trees, Misinformation and Birth Control, Dark Matter Detection, Asteroid Bennu Ingredients for Life
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Denial, Calcium Cardiac Scans
Science or Fiction

Episode #1064 - November 29th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Helion Fusion Update
News Items: CRISPR Wheat Sources Nitrogen, LLMs and Collective Intelligence, Origins of Theia, Holiday Scams, Hypervelocity White Dwarves
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Cellulose Correction
Science or Fiction

Episode #1063 - November 22nd, 2025

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Noah's Ark
News Items: Using AI to Design Viruses, Creatine for Cognitive Function, Earth Digital Twin, Quiet Supersonic Jet, Tet For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Wolf Tool Use
Science or Fiction

Episode #1062 - November 15th, 2025

Live from Kansas
Special Segment: Nightmares
News Items: The NeuroWorm, Ant Gives Birth to Different Species, Primordial Black Holes, Cultish, Tooth Eye, Snake Oil, Flowing Water on Asteroid
Science or Fiction

Episode #1061 - November 8th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Nanotech Cancer Drug
News Items: NEO Robot, UN Climate Report, Human Toolmaking, Worst Panspermia Headline Ever, AI-Powered Wound Healer
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Horse Evolution, Stranded Taikonauts
Science or Fiction

Episode #1060 - November 1st, 2025

News Items: Therapeutic Nanoparticles, What Killed Napoleon's Forces, Making Better Photosynthesis, Second Generation Black Holes, More on 3I-Atlas
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Human Instinct
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1059 - October 25th, 2025

What's the Word: Peristalsis
News Items: Dimming the Sun, LLMs Will Lie to be Helpful, Should We Stop Quest for Superintelligence, CT Ghost
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: COVID Vaccines
Science or Fiction

Episode #1058 - October 18th, 2025

News Items: Why People Believe Misinformation, Measles on the Rise, Is Therapy Speech, Solar Activity Increasing, Possible Wormhole
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
From TikTok: Earth in a Vacuum
Science or Fiction

Episode #1057 - October 11th, 2025

Interview with David Kyle Johnson
Quickie with Steve: Liver Xenograft
News Items: Nobel Prizes 2025 for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Long COVID Discovery
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1056 - October 4th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Galaxy Wave
News Items: Redrawing the Human Family Tree, Fig Wasps, ALS May Be Autoimmune, Complex Chemistry on Enceladus, Genius Act
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Kea Intelligence
Science or Fiction

Episode #1055 - September 27th, 2025

What's the Word: Autism
News Items: New NASA Mission Control, Element l120, Scalable Quantum Computer, Using AI Increases Lying, Scams and Fraud
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen as a Propellent
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1054 - September 20th, 2025

News Items: Conspiracy Physics, Cancer Misinformation, Improved Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, Oldest Mummies, Not The Screwworms
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics in Research
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1053 - September 13th, 2025

Quickie with Evan: Earth's Quasi-Moon
News Items: Guiding Tiny Robots, Tylenol and Autism, Music Choices as we Age, Wearable for Subtle Communication, Decreasing Science Scores
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Gold Nanowire Gel Batteries, Otters
Science or Fiction

Episode #1052 - September 6th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Real Interstellar Technosignatures
News Items: Sexless Seeds, Spouses Share Psychiatric Disorders, CRISPR Improvement, Robotic Bee, Tin Man Syndrome Retraction, Super Wood
Who's That Noisy
Taxing Deductions
Science or Fiction

Episode #1051 - August 30th, 2025

Why Didn't I Know This: First Portable Computer
News Items: Brightest Fast Radio Burst, Trash into Biochar, Declining Reading Rates, Most Americans Skeptical of Paranormal, Quantum Alternative to GPS
Who's That Noisy
From TikTok: Mammograms
Science or Fiction

Episode #1050 - August 23rd, 2025

Quickie with Steve: Using Fusion to Make Gold
News Items: Older Americans Using AI, Semi-Solid State EV, Ad Hominem Attacks Online, Non-Surgical LASIK, Now 3I-ATLAS is Glowing
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and Emails: Elemental Drugs
Science or Fiction

Episode #1049 - August 16th, 2025

News Items: Jim Lovell Dies at 97, Music Anhedonia, Lithium and Alzheimer's, CHAT GPT-5, Dangerous Worm Cleanse
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Mini Nuclear Reactors
Who Am I
Science or Fiction

Episode #1048 - August 9th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Water from Air
News Items: Depleted Uranium Batteries, Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes, New Shroud of Turin Analysis, Web of Space
Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Powder, Lab Leak
From TikTok: Lyme Lab Leak
Science or Fiction

Episode #1047 - August 2nd, 2025

From TikTok: More on 3I/Atlas and Aliens
News Items: Artery Calcium Scan, Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling, World's Largest Cargo Plane, Dental Floss Vaccine
Your Questions and E-mails: Apes Sign Language, Mama Cass
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1046 - July 26th, 2025

What's the Word: Fossil Words
News Items: New Supermaterial, Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis, Belly Fat Jab, Hormone Therapy, Death by Haunted Doll
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1045 - July 19th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Weird Exoplanet
News Items: Voyager Thrusters Brought Back to Life, Space Tourism, Global Temperature and Ice Sheet Melting, Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most Powerful Solar Storm
Your Questions and E-mails: EV Charging, Off the Hook
Science or Fiction

Episode #1044 - July 12th, 2025

Dumbest Word of the Week: Orthomolecular
News Items: Ban Left Turns, Bird Flu Shenanigans, Interstellar Comet, Artificial Blood, Beekeeping Benefits
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: AI Tech Support
Science or Fiction

Episode #1043 - July 5th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Quantum Electronics
News Items: AI Research Collaborators, AI Carbon Footprint, Curing Deafness, Food Myths, AI Enzyme Engineering
Who's That Noisy
Why Didn't I Know This: The Great Attractor
Your Questions and E-mails: Why Scientists Fall for Woo
Science or Fiction

Episode #1042 - June 28th, 2025

What's the Word: Eco
News Items: Vaccinating the World, How Children vs AI Acquire Language, Vera Rubin Observatory, Visible Nova, Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1041 - June 21st, 2025

Guest Rogue: Justin Daab
From TikTok: Mysterious Moon
News Items: Scopes 100 Year Anniversary, Smells and Hunger, GMOs May Save Florida Citrus, Black Hole Supercollider, Antarctica Radio Pulses
Special Report: Does AI Think?
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1040 - June 14th, 2025

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Premium Water
News Items: NASA Budget, RFK Jr Sacks Vaccine Panel, Digital Life After Death, Light Out of Nothing, Possible New Treatment for HIV
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Replicating Eratosthenes
Science or Fiction

Episode #1039 - June 7th, 2025

Interview with Emily Schoerning
Quickie with Bob: Prepping for Q-Day
News Items: Seed Oils, Lead into Gold, American Lysenkoism, The Screwworm is Coming, Galactic Collision
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Dream Learning
Science or Fiction

Episode #1038 - May 31st, 2025

Quickie with Steve: Global Warming and Ocean Currents
News Items: Infrared Contact Lenses, Trees Respond to Solar Eclipse, Affective Polarization, The Brain's Motor Switchboard, New Dwarf Planet Candidate
Discussion: The Effect of Science Fiction
Your Questions and E-mails: HHS Cancels Vaccine Contract
Science or Fiction

Episode #1037 - May 24th, 2025

Live from NotACon with Guest Rogue Adam Russell
News Items: New Cambrian Fossil, Best Archaeopteryx Specimen, Chimps Using First Aid, Treatment for Baldness, New Color - Olo, The Next Theranos, Bespoke Genetic Therapy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1036 - May 17th, 2025

Dumbest Word of the Week: Moxibustion
News Items: Cold Plunges, The End of Life, Floating Nuclear Power, Visualizing Special Relativity, Brainspotting Pseudoscience
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics of Pig Hearts, Are Flat Earthers Real
Science or Fiction

Episode #1035 - May 10th, 2025

Quickie with Bob: Fusion Rockets
News Items: Falling Space Debris, What Makes People Flourish, Pig Heart Xenografts, Chiropractic Stroke, Breathable Algae Drug Delivery
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Faster Than Light Expansion, Autism Self-Diagnosis
Science or Fiction

Episode #1034 - May 3rd, 2025

Interview with Melanie Trecek-King
News Items: Internet Fakes and Violence, Lab Grown Teeth, RFK On Autism, AI Designed Instruments
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Big Bang Miracle
Science or Fiction

Episode #1033 - April 26th, 2025

Quickie with Steve: Game Transfer Phenomenon
Geoengineering, Biosignature Candidate, Skull Rock on Mars
Commercial Perovskite Solar Panels
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Another Unified Theory
Science or Fiction

Episode #1032 - April 19th, 2025

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone
News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Separate the Art from the Artists, Does the Moon Rotate
Science or Fiction

Episode #1031 - April 12th, 2025

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

Episode #1030 - April 5th, 2025

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

Episode #1029 - March 29th, 2025

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

Episode #1028 - March 22nd, 2025

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

Episode #1027 - March 15th, 2025

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

Episode #1026 - March 8th, 2025

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

Episode #1025 - March 1st, 2025

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

Episode #1024 - February 22nd, 2025

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

Episode #1023 - February 15th, 2025

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

Episode #1022 - February 8th, 2025

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

Episode #1021 - February 1st, 2025

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

Episode #1020 - January 25th, 2025

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

Episode #1019 - January 18th, 2025

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

Episode #1018 - January 11th, 2025

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

Episode #1017 - January 4th, 2025

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

Episode #1016 - December 28th, 2024

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

Episode #1015 - December 21st, 2024

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

Episode #1014 - December 14th, 2024

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

Episode #1013 - December 7th, 2024

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

Episode #1012 - November 30th, 2024

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

Episode #1011 - November 23rd, 2024

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

Episode #1010 - November 16th, 2024

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

Episode #1009 - November 9th, 2024

Interview with Brian Cox
Quickie with Bob: Superheavy Element Chemistry
News Items: Biogenome Project, Ancient Solar Magnetic Field, MAHA, Miranda Ocean, Club 27 Myth
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1008 - November 2nd, 2024

Quickie with Bob: Predicting Earthquakes
News Items: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer, Gold from Earthquakes, Plastic in the Brain, Quantum Neural Network, Marmosets have Names
Your questions and E-mails: Beetles
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1007 - October 26th, 2024

What's the Word: Annular
News Items: Europa Clipper, Illusion of Information Adequacy, Seeding the Atmosphere, Exomoon, Psychology of Scare
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Replaceable Batteries
Science or Fiction

Episode #1006 - October 19th, 2024

Interview with Christian Hubicki
From TikTok: Fake Spacestation
News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Myopia
Science or Fiction

Episode #1005 - October 12th, 2024

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Dumbest Thing of the Week: Loch Ness Sonar
News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Fruit Fly Connectome, Shroud of Turin Again
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Cars
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1004 - October 5th, 2024

Check out Surfshark https://surfshark.com/sgu Quickie with Bob: Lunar Mantle Partially Molten
News Items: Heart Function in Space, Schizophrenia Drug, Wood Vaulting, AI Finds Nazca Lines, LISA Gravitational Telescope
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Religious Skepticism
Science or Fiction

Episode #1003 - September 28th, 2024

Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones-Rooy
What's the Word: Pitch
News Items: Crystal Genome Storage, How Reliable are Political Forecasts, Myopia Epidemic, Biotwang Explained
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #1002 - September 21st, 2024

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

Episode #1001 - September 14th, 2024

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News Items: Embryo Models, Carbon Fiber Battery, Zeta Class Supercomputer, UFOs as a Societal Problem
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Residential Solar
Science or Fiction

Episode #1000 - September 7th, 2024

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

Episode #999 - August 31st, 2024

What's the Word: Bunk
News Items: Starliner Update, Therapeutic Roleplaying, The Search for Gravitons, Dinosaur Footprints, Schools vs Cell Phones
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Slippery Slope
Science or Fiction

Episode #998 - August 24th, 2024

Quickie with Steve: Killing Mammoths
News Items: Water on Exoplanets, Mpox, Darkling Beetles, Moon Gravity Assist, Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Who's That Noisy
From Tik Tok: The Sage Wall
Science or Fiction

Episode #997 - August 17th, 2024

Election Scams
News Items: Childhood Vaccines, Alien Solar Panels, Stuck in the ISS, Framing and Global Warming, Promoting Homeopathy
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #996 - August 10th, 2024

Interview with Forrest Valkai
News Items: Mark Edward, Moon Deep Storage, Pursuit of Happiness, Measuring Blood Pressure, First Complex Life on Earth, Life on Venus Update
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: AC vs DC
Science or Fiction

Episode #995 - August 3rd, 2024

OIympic Controversy
News Items: Progeria Treatment, Solid State Battery, The Cass Review, Mammoth DNA
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: The Bacterial Flagellum
Science or Fiction

Episode #994 - July 27th, 2024

What's the Word: Calculus
News Items: Water Harvesting, Chimp Communication, Dark Oxygen, Nuclear Clocks, Creationism Survey
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Your Questions and E-mails: The Logic of God
Science or Fiction

Episode #993 - July 20th, 2024

Conspiracy Theories
News Items: Lunar Cave, AI Love, AI Scams, Solar Clams
From TikTok: Antimony and Air Fryers
Your Questions and E-mails: Judith Curry
Science or Fiction

Episode #992 - July 13th, 2024

Robot Suicide
News Items: Mars Settlement Simulation, HIV Prevention, COVID Protection Gene, Nuclear Pasta, Eyeball Planet
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Water
Science or Fiction

Episode #991 - July 6th, 2024

Simulating Black Holes
News Items: DNA Nano Killbot, Bionic Leg, Neanderthal with Downs, Festival Fail, Kugelblitz Black Holes
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #990 - June 29th, 2024

Quickie with Steve: Multivitamin Supplements
News Items: GOES-U Satellites, Risks of Cannabis, Improved Enzymes, Geopathic Stress, Using AI to Predict Alzheimer's
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: The Pattern App, Processing Grief
Science or Fiction

Episode #989 - June 22nd, 2024

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

Episode #988 - June 15th, 2024

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

Episode #987 - June 8th, 2024

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

Episode #986 - June 1st, 2024

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

Episode #985 - May 25th, 2024

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

Episode #984 - May 18th, 2024

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

Episode #983 - May 11th, 2024

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

Episode #982 - May 4th, 2024

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

Episode #981 - April 27th, 2024

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

Episode #980 - April 20th, 2024

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

Episode #979 - April 13th, 2024

Live from Dallas with special guest Dustin Bates of Starset
Eclipse Science
News Items: AI Designed Drugs, AI Music, Music Getting Simpler, Aphantasia Spectrum, Nova and Comet Compete with Eclipse
Science or Fiction

Episode #978 - April 6th, 2024

Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Rooy
Quickie with Bob: Silicon Spikes
News Items: Havana Syndrome, Robo Taxis in New York, Rebellions - Cultural Memory - and Eclipses, Gravitational Waves and Human Life
Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution of Gullibility
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #977 - March 30th, 2024

AI Created Music
News Items: Sweetened Drinks and Atrial Fibrillation, One Degree, Birth Control Misinformation, Iridology
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Mel's Mystery Hole, Positive Thinking
Science or Fiction

Episode #976 - March 23rd, 2024

Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission
Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR
News Items: Starship's Third Launch, Extinct Flu Virus, Keeping Voyager 1 Going, Death by Exorcism, Energy Demand Increasing
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Fighting Lions
Science or Fiction

Episode #975 - March 16th, 2024

Tax Scams
News Items: Pentagon UFO Report, Microplastic Risks, Parasite Cleanse, Gut Microbe Communication, Interstellar Meteorite
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Thou, Mach Effect Drive
Science or Fiction

Episode #974 - March 9th, 2024

Quickie with Bob: Colliding Neutron Stars
News Items: Sinking Cities, Hypervaccination, Conspiracy Theories and Disease X, Celebrities and Flat Earth, Superconducting Magnets and Fusion
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: IVF, Moon's Orbit
Science or Fiction

Episode #973 - March 2nd, 2024

News Items: First Private Landing on the Moon, Sex Difference in the Brain, Bee Venom for Breast Cancer, Learning Empathy, Brightest Object
jWho's That Noisy
Quotation Game
Your Question and E-mails: Correction
Science or Fiction

Episode #972 - February 24th, 2024

Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists
News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and Looksmaxxing, Titan Uninhabitable
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #971 - February 17th, 2024

Quickie with Bob - Metalenses
News Items: Flow Batteries, Green Roofs, LEGO MRI scanner, The Future Circular Collider, Mayo Clinic and Reiki
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #970 - February 10th, 2024

What's the Word: Cardinal
News Items: New Virus-Like Microbes Found, SLIM Lunar Lander, Misinformation and Wellness Influencers, Super Earth in Habitable Zone, Climate Change and Storms
Who's That Noisy, Name That Logical Fallacy, Science or Fiction

Episode #969 - February 3rd, 2024

Interview with Dustin Bates of Starset
News Items: Neuralink Implant, Love on the Brain, Amelia Earhart Plane Evidence, Hiding Sickness, Cicada Double Brood
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Moon Timeline, Long Acting Insulin
Science or Fiction

Episode #968 - January 27th, 2024

Swindler's List: Deep Fake Robot Call
News Item: Oxygen Bottleneck, NASA Opens Osiris Rex Canister, Learning and Longevity, DNA Directed Assembly, Bleach Peddler Sentenced
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Batteries
Science or Fiction

Episode #967 - January 20th, 2024

Interview with Robert Sapolsky
News Items: Betavolt 50 Year Battery, Moon Landing Delayed, Cloned Monkeys, Converting CO2 into Carbon Nanofibers, Bad Fen Shui
Who's That Noisy
From TikTok: Jellyfish UFO
Science or Fiction

Episode #966 - January 13th, 2024

Dumbest Thing of the Week
News Items: Dual Sympathetic Response, Peregrine Moon Mission, Solar Eclipse, Boy Beats Tetris
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Dimensional Weight
Science or Fiction

Episode #965 - January 6th, 2024

Psychic Predictions for 2023 and Rogue Predictions for 2024
News Items: Dosing Gene Expression, Solar Tower, Alzheimer's Virus, Quark Matter, Scientology RICO
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #964 - December 30th, 2023

2023 Year in Review
Best Science of the Year
Best SGU Moments
Best Interviews
Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of the Year
In Memorium
Science or Fiction

Episode #963 - December 23rd, 2023

Special Guest: Eli Bosnick
Quickie with Steve: Iron Spheres are Terrestrial
News Items: Lunar Roads, Misinformation vs Disinformation, Gravitational Waves As Fast As Light, Fluoride and IQ, Dark GPT
Skeptics and Paranormal Experiences
Science or Fiction

Episode #962 - December 16th, 2023

Interview with Jessica McCabe of How to ADHD
Special Segment: Zelle Scams
News Items: Neuromorphic Supercomputer, Sodium Ion Batteries, Lab Grown Coffee, Lunar Anthropocene
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nazi Synthetic Fuel
Who Said That
Science or Fiction

Episode #961 - December 9th, 2023

Quickie with Bob: Ceramic Storage
News Items: Quantum Gravity, X-Prize for Health Span, ECT Effects on the Brain, Building New Materials with AI and Robots
From Tik Tok: Electric Car Without Charging
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #960 - December 2nd, 2023

News Items: Internet Use and Mental Health, Methane Capture, Bitter Revenge, Underground Microbes, PopSci Magazine Closes
Quickie with Steve: LK-99 Debunked
Who's That Noisy, Question and E-mails: Dr. GPT
Science or Fiction

Episode #959 - November 25th, 2023

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

Episode #958 - November 18th, 2023

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

Episode #957 - November 11th, 2023

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

Episode #956 - November 4th, 2023

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

Episode #955 - October 28th, 2023

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

Episode #954 - October 21st, 2023

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

Episode #953 - October 14th, 2023

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

Episode #952 - October 4th, 2023

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

Episode #951 - September 30th, 2023

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

Episode #950 - September 23rd, 2023

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

Episode #949 - September 16th, 2023

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

Episode #948 - September 9th, 2023

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

Episode #947 - September 2nd, 2023

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

Episode #946 - August 26th, 2023

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

Episode #945 - August 19th, 2023

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

Episode #944 - August 12th, 2023

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

Episode #943 - August 5th, 2023

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

Episode #942 - July 29th, 2023

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

Episode #941 - July 22nd, 2023

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

Episode #940 - July 15th, 2023

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

Episode #939 - July 8th, 2023

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

Episode #938 - July 1st, 2023

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

Episode #937 - June 24th, 2023

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

Episode #936 - June 17th, 2023

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

Episode #935 - June 10th, 2023

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

Episode #934 - June 3rd, 2023

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

Episode #933 - May 27th, 2023

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

Episode #932 - May 20th, 2023

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

Episode #931 - May 13th, 2023

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

Episode #930 - May 6th, 2023

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

Episode #929 - April 29th, 2023

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

Episode #928 - April 22nd, 2023

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

Episode #927 - April 15th, 2023

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

Episode #926 - April 8th, 2023

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

Episode #925 - April 1st, 2023

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

Episode #924 - March 25th, 2023

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

Episode #923 - March 18th, 2023

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

Episode #922 - March 11th, 2023

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

Episode #921 - March 4th, 2023

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

Episode #920 - February 25th, 2023

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

Episode #919 - February 18th, 2023

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

Episode #918 - February 11th, 2023

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

Episode #917 - February 4th, 2023

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

Episode #916 - January 28th, 2023

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

Episode #915 - January 21st, 2023

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

Episode #914 - January 14th, 2023

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

Episode #913 - January 7th, 2023

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

Episode #912 - December 31st, 2022

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

Episode #911 - December 24th, 2022

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

Episode #910 - December 17th, 2022

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

Episode #909 - December 10th, 2022

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

Episode #908 - December 3rd, 2022

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

Episode #907 - November 26th, 2022

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

Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction

Episode #906 - November 19th, 2022

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

Episode #905 - November 12th, 2022

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

Episode #904 - November 5th, 2022

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

Episode #903 - October 29th, 2022

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

Episode #902 - October 22nd, 2022

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

Episode #901 - October 15th, 2022

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

Episode #900 - October 8th, 2022

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

Episode #899 - October 1st, 2022

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

Episode #898 - September 24th, 2022

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

Episode #897 - September 17th, 2022

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

Episode #896 - September 10th, 2022

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

Episode #895 - September 3rd, 2022

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

Episode #894 - August 27th, 2022

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

Episode #893 - August 20th, 2022

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

Episode #892 - August 13th, 2022

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

Episode #891 - August 6th, 2022

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

Episode #890 - July 30th, 2022

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

Episode #889 - July 23rd, 2022

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

Episode #888 - July 16th, 2022

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

Episode #887 - July 9th, 2022

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

Episode #886 - July 2nd, 2022

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

Episode #885 - June 25th, 2022

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

Episode #884 - June 18th, 2022

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

Episode #883 - June 11th, 2022

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

Episode #882 - June 4th, 2022

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

Episode #881 - May 28th, 2022

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

Episode #880 - May 21st, 2022

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

Episode #879 - May 14th, 2022

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

Episode #878 - May 7th, 2022

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

Episode #877 - April 30th, 2022

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

Episode #876 - April 23rd, 2022

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

Episode #875 - April 16th, 2022

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

Episode #874 - April 9th, 2022

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

Episode #873 - April 2nd, 2022

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

Episode #872 - March 26th, 2022

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

Episode #871 - March 19th, 2022

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

Episode #870 - March 12th, 2022

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

Episode #869 - March 5th, 2022

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

Episode #868 - February 26th, 2022

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

Episode #867 - February 19th, 2022

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

Episode #866 - February 12th, 2022

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

Episode #865 - February 5th, 2022

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

Episode #864 - January 29th, 2022

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

Episode #863 - January 22nd, 2022

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

Episode #862 - January 15th, 2022

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

Episode #861 - January 8th, 2022

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

Episode #860 - January 1st, 2022

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

Episode #859 - December 25th, 2021

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

Episode #858 - December 18th, 2021

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

Episode #857 - December 11th, 2021

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

Episode #856 - December 4th, 2021

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

Episode #855 - November 27th, 2021

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

Episode #854 - November 20th, 2021

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

Episode #853 - November 13th, 2021

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

Episode #852 - November 6th, 2021

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

Episode #851 - October 30th, 2021

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

Episode #850 - October 23rd, 2021

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

Episode #849 - October 16th, 2021

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

Episode #848 - October 9th, 2021

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

Episode #847 - October 2nd, 2021

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

Episode #846 - September 25th, 2021

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

Episode #845 - September 18th, 2021

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

Episode #844 - September 11th, 2021

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

Episode #843 - September 4th, 2021

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

Episode #842 - August 28th, 2021

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

Episode #841 - August 21st, 2021

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

Episode #840 - August 14th, 2021

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

Episode #839 - August 7th, 2021

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

Episode #838 - July 31st, 2021

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

Episode #837 - July 24th, 2021

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

Episode #836 - July 17th, 2021

COVID Update: Vaccine Booster
News Items: Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Rogue Planets, Space Tourism, Hydroponic Farming
Your Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic Wine
Science or Fiction

Episode #835 - July 10th, 2021

What's the Word: Osculant
News Items: FDA Approval of Aducanumab, New Kind of Supernova, Icelandia, Shorter Work Week
Your Questions and E-mails: Faith vs Belief
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction

Episode #834 - July 3rd, 2021

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Pioneers in Deep Sea Bathyspheric observations
News Items: Noisy Thinking, T-Rex Teens, Video Games and Mental Health, Forming the Milky Way, Dowsing Again
Science or Fictions
Live Questions

Episode #833 - June 26th, 2021

COVID Update: Delta Variant
News Items: Detecting Life, Update on Space Launch System, Brain Implant for Pain, Pupil Size and Intelligence
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Food from Air
Science or Fiction

Episode #832 - June 19th, 2021

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