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SIO531: Your Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs, According to a New Stanford Study

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SIO530: Did AI Actually "Solve" That Famous Math Problem?

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SIO529: AI in Schools Makes Students Feel Smarter. The Tests Say Otherwise.

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SIO528: The Marshmallow Test Is Mostly BS, and It's Not the Only Classic Psych Test Like That

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SIO527: The Science of Why We Ask Why, with Dr. Tania Lombrozo

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SIO526: Why Is College So Expensive?

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Some More News Is COMPLETELY WRONG About Spider-Man Brand New Day

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SIO525: Dude Who Said Autism Is "Extreme Male Brain" Walks It Back

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SIO524: Why We Haven't Cured Cancer Yet, Part 2 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)
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SIO523: What Cancer Actually Is, Part 1 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)

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SIO522: College Is Impossibly Expensive. But It's Not Because of Bogus Degrees.

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SIO521: The Daily Is Sane-Washing Trump's War on Higher Ed

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SIO520: My Talk at SkeptiCal - Selective Skepticism Is Not Skepticism

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SIO519: People Are Misinterpreting Obsession in Very Revealing Ways

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SIO518: Biological Definitions Do Not Do What Richard Dawkins Says They Do

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SIO517: How Is It That 9 Days in Space Means Weeks of Rehabilitation?

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SIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler
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SIO515: A Vast, Global Network! ... of 3 Guys

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SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct

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SIO513: Debunking Butler Conspiracy Theories in Descending Order by Scope

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SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.

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SIO511: What a Recent Chappell Roan Incident Teaches Us About Sexism

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SIO510: Digging Into the Science of the Placebo Effect

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SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology

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SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.

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SIO507: Shirley You're Joking, Minnesota Fraud Man!

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SIO506: Minnesota Fraud and the Death of Information

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SIO505: The ICE Whistleblower Hearing Was Astonishing. It Needs More Attention.

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SIO504: The Other Kind of Nut Allergy. Well, Both Kinds, I Guess?

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SIO503: Viral Post Claims Texas Has More Democrats Than Republicans. Is That True?

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This Is The Dark Place. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?

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SIO501: What Pluribus Gets Right about Neuroscience

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SIO500: A New Study Suggests Brain Imaging Might Have Significant Flaws

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SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared

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SIO498: The Science of Hallucinations, Ear-worms, and Phantom Limbs

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SIO497: The Mamdani Machine Exposed! Part 2

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SIO496: Asra Nomani Has EXPOSED the Mamdani Machine!

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SIO495: Can AI Chatbots Make You Delusional? A Psychologist Explains

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SIO494: Autism and ADHD, Part 2

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SIO493: Kids with ADHD/Autism Struggle with Mental Health. New Study Says Maybe It's the Stress of Being Different

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SIO492: How Radicalized Was Kirk's Killer, Really?

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SIO491: What Do We Actually Know About Tyler Robinson? Why Did He Kill Charlie Kirk?

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SIO490: The "Leaky Pipeline" of Academia

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SIO489: TikTok Banned #Skinnytok and It Was Right to Do So

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SIO488: She Filmed Her Harassment and It Went Viral on TikTok

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SIO487: How Close Is Iran Actually To Nuclear Weapons?

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SIO486: Good News! According to The Economist, College Is Totally Affordable!

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SIO485: It's Not Rocket Science

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SIO484: Lawsuit Alleges Voting Irregularities in 2024. Is There Any There There?

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SIO483: Jordan Peterson Debated a Bunch of Atheists. So... How Did That Go? Part 2

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SIO482: Jordan Peterson Debated a Bunch of Atheists. So... How Did That Go?

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SIO481: Ok What Was the Deal With the Direwolves

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SIO480: Abortion Legislation Gets Embryonic Terminology and Facts All Wrong

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SIO479: Does Speaking Your Partner's "Love Language" Foster a Happier Relationship?
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SIO478: This AI Is Not My Girlfriend, It's My... Social Agent...

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SIO477: Debunking Bad AI Research, and Bad Coverage of AI Research

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SIO476: Greg Palast Claims the Election Was Stolen. Let's Check His Work. PART 2

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SIO475: Greg Palast Claims the Election Was Stolen. Let's Check His Work.

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SIO474: They've Been Telling Us They'd Do This for a Long Time. Many Just Weren't Listening

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SIO473: A Strange Man Is Inside Our Government

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SIO472: Anti-woke Crybabies Call ASL Interpreters Unnecessary. Here's the Fascinating Science Behind Why They Are Vital

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It's 2025. Please Stop Playing Dumb. It Was A Nazi Salute.

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Trump’s Health Nominees Are a Steaming Pile of Grift

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Dr. Rick on Trump’s Terrible HHS, Continued; and, Trump's Surgeon General Nominee

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Trump's Health and Human Services Agency, with Dr. Rick Sullivan

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You Don’t Actually Need to Condemn the Murder of the CEO Guy

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Epidemiologist Claims MAGA Is An Epidemic Caused By "Brain Flaws." Only Problem Is, That's Completely Unscientific and Based On Almost Nothing.

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No, She Didn't 'Lose' 15m Democratic Votes

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SIO464: All About Synesthesia, Part 2

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SIO463: Synesthesia - How Does It Work?
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SIO462: The Day the Dinos Died

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SIO461: So You Want To Destroy the Earth...

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SIO460: Actual Experts Debunk the Cass Review
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SIO459: Understanding CRISPR with Dr. Eric Jaffe

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SIO458: How Eye Color Reveals the Complexity of Genetics
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SIO457: Facilitated Communication is Fake, with Kelly Burke

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SIO456: Are You a Good Drug or a Bad Drug?

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SIO455: This Is Your Brain on Drugs, With Dr. Jenessa Seymour

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SIO454: Bret Weinstein's Incredibly Curious PhD Thesis

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SIO453: How Could Bret Weinstein Have Been So Wrong About COVID?

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SIO452: Ambivalent Attitudes Promote Support for Extreme Political Actions

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SIO451: IUD Insertion Videos on TikTok - 0/10 Do Not Recommend

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SIO450: From Trump Voter in 2016 to Progressive Making a Real Difference in 2024

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SIO449: The Northern Lights Went South for the Summer

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SIO448: How To Build A Dinosaur

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SIO447: Steve Vladeck on the Shadow Docket

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SIO446: Believe It Or Not, The Right Has An Effective Youth Movement

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SIO445: The Science of 3 Body Problem with Paul Sutter

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SIO444: Climate Change Made "the Blob." It Killed Tons of Marine Life
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SIO443: Dr. Jo Boaler Tried To Improve Math Education. Then An Anti-woke Mob Came For Her

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SIO442: Is Quantum Technology Actually Better?

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SIO441: Elon Musk's Neuralink - Real Or Just Hype? Part 2

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SIO440: Elon Musk's Neuralink - Real or Just Hype?

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SIO439: God and Country with Katherine Stewart

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SIO438: That's Absurd Please Elaborate

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SIO437: Zoë Schiffer on Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

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SIO436: They’re Retconning George Floyd’s Murder, but Radley Balko Is Fighting Back

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SIO435: The Radical Idea That We Shouldn’t Work Ourselves to Death

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SIO434: Biden Is Failing On Israel-Palestine. So What Do We Do?

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SIO433: The Robot at the End of the Universe

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