Podcast Episodes

Making AI Environmentally Friendly

Episode 994

Will our improvements to AI's voracious appetite for electricity keep pace with the exploding demand?

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/a…

11 months ago

View Episode

How to Decide What to Eat

Episode 993

Do you really need to pay quite so much attention to which foods you eat, and which you avoid?

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choic…

11 months, 1 week ago

View Episode

The Case of the Missing Beaumont Children

Episode 992

Since psychic abilities do not exist outside the delusions of true believers, involving psychics in searches for missing persons is worse than useles…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

View Episode

Real Sea Monsters

Episode 991

A roundup of all the biggest and scariest real sea monsters — from today and from prehistoric times.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

Rethinking Science Education

Episode 990

How one special moment redefined how a science teacher does her job.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1 year ago

View Episode

Are $1,000,000 Paranormal Challenges Effective?

Episode 989

Their exciting nature, combined with the fact nobody's ever won one, make paranormal challenge prizes important educational tools.

Learn about your a…

1 year ago

View Episode

Chocolate Myths

Episode 988

Here are many popular myths about chocolate. How many can you tell are true or not?

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1 year ago

View Episode

More than a Magician's Assistant

Episode 987

She may have gotten her start as Houdini's sidekick, but Rose Mackenberg became a giant of unmasking fraudulent mediums.

Learn about your ad choices:…

1 year ago

View Episode

A Brief Shake-Up at Skeptoid

You're going to get to enjoy some new guest hosts for a month or two on Skeptoid.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1 year ago

View Episode

Do Functional Mushrooms Function?

Episode 986

Super mushrooms are claimed by some to provide vague health benefits beyond their known nutritional values.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx…

1 year, 1 month ago

View Episode