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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Technology
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Can We Talk?
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Animal Instinct
50 min
478
Group Think
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479
Some Like It Cold
We all may prefer the goldilocks zone – not too hot, not too cold. But most of the universe is bitterly cold. We can learn a lot about it if we’re willing to brave a temperature drop.A chilly Arctic island is the closest thing to...
50 min
480
Math's Days Are Numbered
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481
Skeptic Check: Science Blunders
50 min
482
The Heat is On
50 min
483
Life Back Then
50 min
484
Shutting Down Science
50 min
485
Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds
50 min
486
Emergence
50 min
487
You Say You Want an Evolution?
50 min
488
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
50 min
489
Catch a Wave
50 min
490
Rife with Life
50 min
491
Getting a Spacelift
50 min
492
Material Whirl
50 min
493
Exoplanets
50 min
494
Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird
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495
Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
50 min
496
Stomach This
50 min
497
Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program
50 min
498
Seth's Wine Cellar
50 min
499
Anthropocene and Heard
50 min
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Happy Daze
50 min