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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Bare Bones (rebroadcast)
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Make Space for Animals
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Testing Your Metal
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Into the Deep (rebroadcast)
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What's a Few Degrees?
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Mycology Education (rebroadcast)
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Attack of the Mutants
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Hubble and Beyond (rebroadcast)
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Skeptic Check: Identifying UAPs
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Talk the Walk (rebroadcast)
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Skeptic Check: Shroom With a View (rebroadcast)
Can psychedelics treat disease?
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Suitable For Life?
Europa, Mars, and Exoplanets
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Your Inner Tree
Stopping the assault on biodiversity
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Dimming the Sun
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Skeptic Check: Brain Gain (rebroadcast)
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Radical Cosmology (rebroadcast)
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Fuhgeddaboudit
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Home Invasions (rebroadcast)
As we struggle to control a viral invader that moves silently across the globe and into its victims, we are also besieged by other invasions. Murder hornets have descended upon the Pacific Northwest, threatening the region’s honeybees. In Africa,...
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AI: Where Does It End? (rebroadcast)
The benefits of artificial intelligence are manifest and manifold, but can we recognize the drawbacks … and avoid them in time? In this episode, recorded before a live audience at the Seattle meeting of the American Association for the...
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Skeptic Check: Science Denial [rebroadcast]
Climate change isn’t happening. Vaccines make you sick. When it comes to threats to public or environmental health, a surprisingly large fraction of the population still denies the consensus of scientific evidence. But it’s not the first time –...
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Animals Being Jerks
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De-Permafrosting
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True Grit (rebroadcast)
Without sand, engineering would be stuck in the Middle Ages. Wooden houses would line mud-packed streets, and Silicon Valley would be, well, just a valley. Sand is the building material of modern cities, and we use more of this resource than...
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You've Got Whale (rebroadcast)
SMS isn’t the original instant messaging system. Plants can send chemical warnings through their leaves in a fraction of a second. And while we love being in the messaging loop – frenetically refreshing our browsers – we miss out on...
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Phreaky Physics
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