The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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  1. The Skeptics Guide #662 - Mar 17 2018

    17 maart 2018

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    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 Lees meer
  2. The Skeptics Guide #661 - Mar 10 2018

    10 maart 2018

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    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

  3. The Skeptics Guide #660 - Mar 3 2018

    3 maart 2018

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    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

  4. The Skeptics Guide #659 - Feb 24 2018

    24 februari 2018

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    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

  5. The Skeptics Guide #658 - Feb 17 2018

    17 februari 2018

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    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

  6. The Skeptics Guide #657 - Feb 10 2018

    10 februari 2018

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    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

  7. The Skeptics Guide #656 - Feb 3 2018

    3 februari 2018

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    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

  8. The Skeptics Guide #655 - Jan 27 2018

    27 januari 2018

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    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

  9. The Skeptics Guide #654 - Jan 20 2018

    19 januari 2018

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    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

  10. The Skeptics Guide #653 - Jan 13 2018

    13 januari 2018

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    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

  11. The Skeptics Guide #652 - Jan 6 2018

    6 januari 2018

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

  12. The Skeptics Guide #651 - Dec 30 2017

    29 december 2017

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

  13. The Skeptics Guide #650 - Dec 23 2017

    23 december 2017

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    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

  14. The Skeptics Guide #649 - Dec 16 2017

    16 december 2017

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    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

  15. The Skeptics Guide #648 - Dec 9 2017

    9 december 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  16. The Skeptics Guide #647 - Dec 2 2017

    2 december 2017

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    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

  17. The Skeptics Guide #646 - Nov 25 2017

    25 november 2017

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

  18. The Skeptics Guide #645 - Nov 18 2017

    18 november 2017

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    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

  19. The Skeptics Guide #644 - Nov 11 2017

    11 november 2017

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    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

  20. The Skeptics Guide #643 - Nov 4 2017

    4 november 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  21. The Skeptics Guide #642 - Oct 28 2017

    25 oktober 2017

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    Private SGU recording made at DragonCon 2017

  22. The Skeptics Guide #641 - Oct 21 2017

    21 oktober 2017

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    What's the Word: Epicenter

  23. The Skeptics Guide #640 - Oct 14 2017

    14 oktober 2017

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    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

  24. The Skeptics Guide #639 - Oct 7 2017

    7 oktober 2017

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    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

  25. The Skeptics Guide #638 - Sep 30 2017

    30 september 2017

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    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

  26. The Skeptics Guide #637 - Sep 23 2017

    23 september 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  27. The Skeptics Guide #636 - Sep 16 2017

    16 september 2017

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    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

  28. The Skeptics Guide #635 - Sep 9 2017

    9 september 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  29. The Skeptics Guide #634 - Sep 2 2017

    31 augustus 2017

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    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

  30. The Skeptics Guide #633 - Aug 26 2017

    26 augustus 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  31. The Skeptics Guide #632 - Aug 19 2017

    19 augustus 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  32. The Skeptics Guide #631 - Aug 12 2017

    12 augustus 2017

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    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

  33. The Skeptics Guide #630 - Aug 5 2017

    5 augustus 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  34. The Skeptics Guide #629 - Jul 29 2017

    29 juli 2017

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

  35. The Skeptics Guide #628 - Jul 22 2017

    22 juli 2017

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

  36. The Skeptics Guide #627 - Jul 15 2017

    15 juli 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  37. The Skeptics Guide #626 - Jul 8 2017

    8 juli 2017

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    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.

  38. The Skeptics Guide #625 - Jul 1 2017

    27 juni 2017

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    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

  39. The Skeptics Guide #624 - Jun 24 2017

    24 juni 2017

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    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

  40. The Skeptics Guide #623 - Jun 17 2017

    17 juni 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  41. The Skeptics Guide #622 - Jun 10 2017

    6 juni 2017

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    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

  42. The Skeptics Guide #621 - Jun 3 2017

    3 juni 2017

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    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

  43. The Skeptics Guide #620 - May 27 2017

    27 mei 2017

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    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

  44. The Skeptics Guide #619 - May 20 2017

    20 mei 2017

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    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

  45. The Skeptics Guide #618 - May 13 2017

    13 mei 2017

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    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 Lees meer
  46. The Skeptics Guide #617 - May 6 2017

    6 mei 2017

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    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

  47. The Skeptics Guide #616 - Apr 29 2017

    29 april 2017

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    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

  48. The Skeptics Guide #615 - Apr 22 2017

    22 april 2017

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    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

  49. The Skeptics Guide #614 - Apr 15 2017

    15 april 2017

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    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

  50. The Skeptics Guide #613 - Apr 8 2017

    8 april 2017

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    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