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SGU Prem #112 - Feb 10 2019

Bionic Limbs

2019-02-10 14:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #709 - Feb 9 2019 (Ad Free)

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

2019-02-09 17:00:42 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Prem #111 - Feb 3 2019

Outtakes: Going to Mars, Cell Phone Battery Life, Anne Hathaway Prank

2019-02-03 14:28:55 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #708 - Feb 2 2019 (Ad Free)

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

2019-02-02 16:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #707 - Jan 26 2019 (Ad Free)

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

2019-01-26 16:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Swag Giveaway!

Hey Patrons. Click the link and sign up for our brand new news letter. If you do you will be entered into our giveaway to be announced on the 7th. 3 people will win a box of SGU swag and one ...

2019-01-25 21:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #706 - Jan 19 2019 (Ad Free)

News Items: Microbes on Mars, Memory Works Backwards, Elephants without Tusks, Dunning Kruger and GMOs, Room Temperature Superconductivity; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questio...

2019-01-19 21:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Prem #110 - Jan 13 2019

Segment #1: EMDR

Segment #2: Human Composting

2019-01-13 21:21:49 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #705 – Jan 12 2019 (Ad Free)

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nancy Grace Roman

News Items: Face Scanning for Disease, Cancer Stats and Crowdfunding Quackery, Cleaning Up Ocean Trash, Butterfly Decline, When Galaxies Co...

2019-01-13 02:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #704 - Jan 5 2019 (Ad Free)

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

2019-01-05 21:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy New Year!

I wanted to send everyone a quick thank you from the SGU. We hope you had a great 2018 and that the year to come is full of science and happiness ☺️

We hit an amazing goal right before t...

2019-01-01 00:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #703 - Dec 29 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-12-29 16:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #702 - Dec 22 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-12-22 14:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Prem #109 - Dec 16 2018

Why were humans the only primate to lose their fur?

2018-12-16 11:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #701 - Dec 15 2018 (Ad Free)

Interview with Susan Gerbic
Guest Rogue Brian Trent
What's the Word: Philopatry
News Items: Release Active Drugs, Voyage 2 Update, Fast Radio Bursts Alien Hypothesis, China's Moon Mission, Th...

2018-12-15 17:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Prem #108 - Dec 09 2018

Live Q&A recorded at the Smithsonian

2018-12-09 13:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #700 - Dec 8 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-12-08 16:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #699 - Dec 1 2018 (Ad Free)

News Items: Global Warming Report, The New Kilogram, Insight Mars Lander

Who's That Noisy

Your Questions and E-mails: Atlantis Claim

Science or Fiction

2018-12-01 20:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #698 - November 24, 2018 (Ad Free)

Live from QED

Audience Q&A

Personal Heroes

Science or Fiction

2018-11-24 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #697 - November 17, 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-11-17 17:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron-only Livestream // November 2018

Going live at 8pm ET

Patron-only Livestream // November 2018

2018-11-13 00:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post

November 2018 Live Stream

Hey everyone we will be doing a patron live stream tomorrow (Monday) at 8 pm EST 12 UTC. We will send a link about 15 minutes before.

2018-11-11 18:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #696 - November 10, 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-11-10 17:33:48 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #695 - November 3, 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-11-03 17:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post

SGU Prem #107 - Oct 28 2018

Book Tour Lecture at the Strand, NYC

2018-10-28 20:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #694 - October 27, 2018 (Ad Free)

Live from QED 2018; Special Guest: Michael Marshall; Name That Pseudoscience; News Items: GMO-Free Himalayan Salt, Drugs in your Supplements, Fast Radio Burst Update, How Many Faces Do You Know, The S...

2018-10-27 14:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post

If you happen to be free...

Hey Guys this is Jay. My wife produced a play called The Shape of a Girl, that’s happening in NYC at the International Fringe Festival. She’s letting me offer you a promo code for tickets in cas...

2018-10-24 17:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #693 - October 20, 2018 (Ad Free)

SGU Debate Club:

Debate #1: Genetic Engineering of humans - full speed ahead, or put on the brakes?

Debate #2: Is college for everyone, and is it worth it?

Debate #3: Book vs Movie...

2018-10-20 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #692 - October 13, 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-10-13 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The Skeptics Guide #691 - October 6, 2018 (Ad Free)

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

2018-10-06 14:37:13 +0000 UTC View Post