FULL EPISODE: Catching Uranus At A Bad Time - December 10, 2025

Astrophysicist Jesse Rogerson joins us for science news with the following: Voyager 2 may have caught Uranus at a bad time, solving a 40-year mystery; NASA spacecraft were vulnerable to hacking for 3 years, AI found and fixed the flaw in 4 days; and Cats meow more than twice as much at men. Jesse fields listener science questions. (Got a general science question? Call in and record it at 1-888-505-6644!) Editor at The Point and philosophy professor Anastasia Berg opines on why AI use is so bad for us. Then, if you thought with weapons that could destroy the world, there would've been only a small number of accidents over the years: You'd be wrong. On Conspiracy Corner, political science professor Dr. Lee Kuhnle unpacks the numerous accidents that have occurred with nuclear weapons. ⁠(Check out Lee's podcast The Uncover Up here⁠.) For Therapy Thursdays on a Wednesday, therapist and social worker Gary Direnfeld is joined by David and foreign correspondent Tony Five to have a frank discussion about grief and loss. Assistant professor of marketing Jin Ho Yun shares details of his study showing that learning via ChatGPT leads to shallower knowledge than using Google search. Segments: (00:00) Introduction (01:04) Jesse Rogerson pt. 1 (10:00) Jesse Rogerson pt. 2 (20:00) Anastasia Berg (30:00) Dr. Lee Kuhnle pt. 1 (39:50) Dr. Lee Kuhnle pt. 2 (49:50) Gary Direnfeld & Tony Five pt. 1 (59:50) Gary Direnfeld & Tony Five pt. 2 (1:09:50) Jin Ho Yun (1:19:16) Sign-off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices