The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Science Podcasts
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org
Location:
New Haven, CT
Description:
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org
Twitter:
@SkepticsGuide
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.theskepticsguide.org
Episodes
The Skeptics Guide #1029 - Mar 29 2025
3/29/2025
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
The Skeptics Guide #1028 - Mar 22 2025
3/19/2025
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
The Skeptics Guide #1027 - Mar 15 2025
3/15/2025
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
The Skeptics Guide #1026 - Mar 8 2025
3/5/2025
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
Duration:01:35:33
The Skeptics Guide #1025 - Mar 1 2025
3/1/2025
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
Duration:01:58:27
The Skeptics Guide #1024 - Feb 22 2025
2/22/2025
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
Duration:01:36:13
The Skeptics Guide #1023 - Feb 15 2025
2/15/2025
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
Duration:01:49:43
The Skeptics Guide #1022 - Feb 8 2025
2/8/2025
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
Duration:01:47:33
The Skeptics Guide #1021 - Feb 1 2025
2/1/2025
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
Duration:01:47:30
The Skeptics Guide #1020 - Jan 25 2025
1/25/2025
Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Roy; News Items: Unexpected Scientific Results, Trust In Scientists, Red Dye #3, Andromeda Mosaic, Telepathy Tapes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Duration:01:43:26
The Skeptics Guide #1019 - Jan 18 2025
1/18/2025
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
Duration:01:51:07
The Skeptics Guide #1018 - Jan 11 2025
1/11/2025
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
Duration:01:33:26
The Skeptics Guide #1017 - Jan 4 2025
1/4/2025
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
Duration:01:44:54
The Skeptics Guide #1016 - Dec 28 2024
12/28/2024
2024 Year End Review; Best of 2024; Science Hero and Jackass of the Year; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
Duration:01:38:08
The Skeptics Guide #1015 - Dec 21 2024
12/21/2024
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
Duration:01:48:22
The Skeptics Guide #1014 - Dec 14 2024
12/14/2024
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
Duration:01:48:52
The Skeptics Guide #1013 - Dec 7 2024
12/7/2024
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
Duration:01:31:40
The Skeptics Guide #1012 - Nov 30 2024
11/30/2024
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
Duration:01:41:08
The Skeptics Guide #1009 - Nov 9 2024
11/9/2024
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
Duration:01:58:35
The Skeptics Guide #1007 - Oct 26 2024
10/26/2024
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
Duration:01:37:26