Skeptics Guide #1053
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1053 September 10th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Evan Earth Quasi-moon https://earthsky.org/space/earth-quasi-moon-2025-pn7/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Guiding Tiny Robots https://www.science.org/content/article/microscopic-robots-navigate-artificial-spacetimes News Item #2 – Tylenol and Autism https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-autism/ News Item #3 – Music Choices as we Age https://phys.org/news/2025-09-older-favorite-songs.html News Item #4 – Mind Reading Wearable...
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Skeptics Guide #1052
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1052 September 3rd 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Real Interstellar Technosignatures https://phys.org/news/2025-09-technosignatures-interstellar.html Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Sexless Seeds https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02753-x News Item #2 – Spouses Share Psychiatric Disorders https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02772-8 News Item #3 – CRISPR Improvement https://phys.org/news/2025-08-crispr-efficiency-triples-lab-dna.html News Item #4 – Robotic Bee...
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Skeptics Guide #1051
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1051 August 27th 2025 Segment #1. Why Didn’t I Know This First Portable Computer https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-worlds-first-laptop-weighed-24-pounds-and-had-a-five-inch-screen-but-it-changed-computers-forever/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Brightest Fast Radio Burst https://theness.com/neurologicablog/brightest-fast-radio-burst-discovered/ News Item #2 – Trash into Biochar https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44246-025-00207-7 News Item #3 – Declining Reading Rates...
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Skeptics Guide #1050
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1050 August 20th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Steve Fusion to Make Gold https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Older Americans Using AI https://theconversation.com/older-americans-are-using-ai-study-shows-how-and-what-they-think-of-it-262411 News Item #2 – Semi-Solid State EV https://electrek.co/2025/08/13/first-ev-with-semi-solid-state-battery-cleared-for-sale/?utm_source=chatgpt.com News Item #3 – Ad Hominem Attacks Online https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328550 News...
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Skeptics Guide #1049
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1049 August 13th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Jim Lovell Dies at 97 https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/ News Item #2 – Music Anhedonia https://neurosciencenews.com/music-anhedonia-auditory-neuroscience-29546/ News Item #3 – Lithium and Alzheimer’s https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/lithium-and-alzheimers-disease/ News Item #4 – Chat GPT-5 https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/openai-launches-chatgpt5-sam-altman-smartest-ai-chatbot/ News Item #5 – Dangerous...
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Skeptics Guide #1048
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1048 August 6th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Drinking Water from Air https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Depleted Uranium Batteries https://theness.com/neurologicablog/depleted-uranium-batteries/ News Item #2 – Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/a-parade-of-volcanoes-is-erupting-in-russia-following-an-8-8-earthquake News Item #3 – New Shroud of Turin Analysis...
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Skeptics Guide #1047
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1047 July 30th 2025 Segment #1. From TikTok More on 3I/ATLAS Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Artery Calcium Scan https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html News Item #2 – Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/superhot-geothermal-energy-could-unearth-power-needed-for-ai-era-.html News Item #3 – World’s Largest Cargo Plane https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250729-windrunner-the-company-that-wants-to-build-the-worlds-largest-aircraft News Item #4 – Dental Floss...
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Skeptics Guide #1046
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1046 July 23rd 2025 Segment #1. What’s the Word Fossil Words Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – New Supermaterial https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250721223831.htm News Item #2 – Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis https://theness.com/neurologicablog/avi-loeb-and-the-alien-technology-hypothesis/ News Item #3 – Belly Fat Jab https://newatlas.com/disease/obesity/worlds-first-targeted-fat-destroyer/ News Item #4 – Hormone Therapy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/health/antidepressants-ssri-pregnancy-fda.html AND...
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Skeptics Guide #1045
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
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Skeptics Guide #1044
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outlineDumbest 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