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How to Spot Misinformation

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

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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811-Martian Meteorite Hunters

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

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801-Jacqui’s PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

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777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

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776-Naming Asteroids and Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA

Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

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770- Hycean Worlds

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)

Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

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764 Green Airglow

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson

The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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Science unscripted 08/30/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: End of August

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 08/16/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: What happens if, in an attempt to learn more about yourself, you find something ugly?

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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 08/02/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: We were so overwhelmed by your emails we could hardly keep your names straight!

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 07/19/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/10/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: The stuff you breathe out can tell an enormous amount about your health — and intentions.

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/03/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Studies out of South Africa indicate that our natural immunity to Omicron might already be waning.

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 04/19/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/29/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 02/15/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/25/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/04/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle

This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.

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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/21/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

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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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/14/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How do I keep the holidays focused on mistletoe instead of misinformation? And how will the pandemic play out in 2022?

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 11/23/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/12/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Like the COVID-19 vaccines? Then you'll love the way mRNA is being tried out on certain cancers. Also, a human stool sample...

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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/05/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

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 ...

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