Big Picture Science
The surprising connections in science and technology that give you the Big Picture. Astronomer Seth Shostak and science journalist Molly Bentley are joined each week by leading researchers, techies, and journalists to provide a smart and humorous take on science. Our regular "Skeptic Check" episodes cast a critical eye on pseudoscience.
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The Evolution of Evolution
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Asteroids!
Everyone knows that a big rock did in the dinosaurs, but smaller asteroids are millions of times more common and can also make a violent impact. Yet unlike the bigger asteroids, we’re not tracking them. Find out what we’d need to...
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They Know Who You Are
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Are We Over the Moon?
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Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
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Raising the Minimum Age
We all try to fight it: the inexorable march of time. The fountain of youth doesn’t exist, and all those wrinkle creams can’t help. But modern science is giving us new weapons in the fight against aging. So how far are we willing to...
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Microbes: Resistance is Futile
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Science Fiction True
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Skeptic Check: The Me in Measles
50 min
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Surviving the Anthropocene
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How to Talk to Aliens
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Shocking Ideas
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Living Computers
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Moving Right Along
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Surfeit of the Vitalest
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Tale of the Distribution
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Who's Controlling Whom?
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Land on the Run
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Replace What Ails You
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Apt to Adapt
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A Stellar Job
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You Think; You're So Smart
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Look Who's Not Talking
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Happily Confused
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Climate Conversation
50 min