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We speak with cosmologist and science communicator Dr. Paul Sutter about his upcoming book, Rescuin

First off... I'M BACK ON OPENING ARGUMENTS!!! Good court thingies! Please please please go check it

Dr. Jesse Preston, Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick, joins to discus

Astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis is back! And here's here to talk about... sperm? Well, when a scien

For the Bonus this month, Dr. Rick Sullivan, SIO's resident synthetic biologist, joined me to comme

On a recent episode of Tucker Carlson's show, fossil fuel shill Dr. Willie Soon came on to

he 2nd half of my conversation with Alejandro Ruiz! We get deeper into examples of technological an

We have a guest expert today! Alejandro Ruiz, a graduate of MIT, joins us to discuss a topic that h

Lydia Smith of Where There's Woke joins us to break down a fascinating online dating study that feat

Joe Magestro is back! First we get an update with what's going on in Wisconsin, and then we pick up

When it comes to climate change, for example, it can certainly feel that way. Dr. Timothy Waring fr

And how does that differ from the minimum wage? Or, for that matter, the federal poverty line?Califo

THE SIMULATION SERIES FINALE!   After much philosophy and physics reading, and after the excellen

Ok, so we've done a bunch of philosophizing about whether or not we live in a simulation, but what a

The elusive man-hating feminist avoided scientific detection in the previous episode, but the chase

I decided to call an audible and give us a mini-break from the intense philosophy and physics stuff,

Do you like philosophical thought experiments and probability theory and have a structured

Good news, everyone!   Today we embark upon a bit of a miniseries! Dr. Bryan Gillis and I began w

It's an Emergen-C episode with Dr. Rick Sullivan! With the holidays approaching, you may be wonderi

For Seriously Awful Movies 4, we reviewed S6E15 of House called Black Hole. We brought Dr. Steve Pro