Podcast Episodes

Some More News Is COMPLETELY WRONG About Spider-Man Brand New Day

I cannot stop thinking about Cody from Some More News's video in which he could not stop thinking about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Cody is INCREDIBLY…

16 hours ago

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SIO525: Dude Who Said Autism Is "Extreme Male Brain" Walks It Back

Episode 525

... and other autism/ADHD research! So pleased to have Dr. Jenessa Seymour back - this time with a variety of studies in the Autism and ADHD realms.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

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SIO524: Why We Haven't Cured Cancer Yet, Part 2 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)

Episode 524

Part 2! Dr. Eric Jaffe returns to actually treat the cancer this time: why radiation is basically catching your kid smoking and making him finish the…

1 month ago

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SIO523: What Cancer Actually Is, Part 1 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)

Episode 523

Part 1! Dr. Eric Jaffe, the biology teacher who keeps naming proteins after cartoon characters, returns for a two-part cancer deep dive. Today: what …

1 month ago

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SIO522: College Is Impossibly Expensive. But It's Not Because of Bogus Degrees.

Episode 522

Part 2! Thomas is joined again by David O'Brien, a higher education policy scholar with the California Community Colleges system, to finish dismantli…

1 month, 1 week ago

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SIO521: The Daily Is Sane-Washing Trump's War on Higher Ed

Episode 521

Thomas is joined by David O'Brien, a higher education policy scholar who works for the California Community Colleges system, to pick apart Trump's ne…

1 month, 1 week ago

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SIO520: My Talk at SkeptiCal - Selective Skepticism Is Not Skepticism

Episode 520

Thanks so much to the folks at SkeptiCal for inviting me! Though the talk does deal with the Butler shooting, I thought some way different stuff for …

2 months ago

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SIO519: People Are Misinterpreting Obsession in Very Revealing Ways

Episode 519

The "nice guy" is the villain. We watched Obsession and cannot stop thinking about it. It has so much to say about gender, consent, "nice guys" and m…

2 months, 1 week ago

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SIO518: Biological Definitions Do Not Do What Richard Dawkins Says They Do

Episode 518

Thomas is joined by Dr. Eric Jaffe, biologist, dinosaur enthusiast, and high school biology teacher, for a conversation that starts with a deceptivel…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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SIO517: How Is It That 9 Days in Space Means Weeks of Rehabilitation?

Episode 517

Thomas is joined by Dr. Jenessa Seymour to dig into the brain science behind a surprisingly strange phenomenon: why do astronauts who spent just nine…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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