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The ability to spot misinformation is a key skill to have in today's world. How can we tell if something is real or fake? In this episode, Brian Du...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: A much-needed update for our COVID vaccines — and also, if it turned out tires were absolutely horrible for our health... w...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: An unusual experiment has cats staring at cat faces, while Dutch researchers go full sci-fi and "brain scan" an image out o...
- Added: May 20, 2022
- Length: 30:00
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.
- Added: Apr 16, 2022
- Length: 30:00
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 30:00
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...
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- Added: Dec 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.
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- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: The evidence is in. Just by focusing your thoughts every day, you really can reduce the stress inside your body. Also, a wi...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine works great on 5-to-11-year-olds — so why isn't Germany in a rush to vaccinate them? Also, if y...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2021
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This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...
- Added: Jun 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:12
This week on the show: If you’ve happened to hear about an asthma medication that will ameliorate or perhaps prevent COVID-19, think twice before ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Have people really gained more weight during the pandemic? How did brain researchers predict stock movements (or, by extens...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Are there COVID-19 vaccines that don't require a needle? How, exactly, do feelings of boredom affect the spread of the coro...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 30:00
If Beluga whales treat a Narwhal like he’s been one of their own, who’s to say he isn’t?
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30