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Geek Counterpoint -- Your antidote to soundbite science!

Lorne Ipsum

Your own personal geek-to-English translator, in handy Podcast form! Equal parts topical science background, correction / explanation of poorly reported science & tech issues, and just plain...

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GC060 Climate Change Impacts

Now that we've gone through the science behind climate change, and knocked down most of the kooks surrounding the issue, it's time to talk a...

00:27:35Jun 2, 2007

GC059 Climate Change Proponents

Since the opponents of the climate change consensus have had their turn, now it's time to give the supporters of the consensus a little work...

00:28:53May 13, 2007

GC058 Swindled!

A couple of Geek Counterpoint listeners (thanks, Travis and Bill!) pointed me to a show recently aired on BBC channel 4 called "The Great Gl...

00:23:27Mar 24, 2007

GC057 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 3)

Now that we've simplified things by covering the more common arguments made by climate change skeptics, this episode is devoted to discussin...

00:27:16Mar 13, 2007

GC056 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 2)

A continuation of episode 54's treatment of general points used by climate change skeptics. Since this is the fourth episode in a series, I'...

00:25:05Feb 21, 2007

GC055 Space Weapons

When the Chinese government demolished one of its aging weather satellites a few weeks ago, they did more than just test out a potentially u...

00:34:13Feb 10, 2007

GC054 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 1)

It's taken some time to do a reasonable level of fact checking, but my climate cats have now been successfully herded, so it's (finally!) ti...

00:37:46Jan 23, 2007

GC053 Sergey Korolyov

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a giant of space exploration -- Sergey Korolyov (sometimes also transliterated as Sergei Koro...

00:16:39Jan 12, 2007

GC052 Antikythera Mechanism

Sure, it's not much to look at -- but this humble lump of corroded bronze completely demolished our previous understanding of the history of...

00:23:12Jan 4, 2007

GC051 Stardust Preliminary Results

Yes, I know -- I just talked about Stardust in episode 50. But in the meantime, the first batch of preliminary science papers was released o...

00:24:06Dec 21, 2006

GC050 News Grab Bag #5

Yes, it's time for another "grab bag" episode to get everybody caught up on recent and semi-recent developments in topics I've covered in pa...

00:34:17Dec 8, 2006

GC049 Reactionless Drives

It's the holy grail of flight -- propulsion without the expenditure of reaction mass. A practical reactionless drive system would render whe...

00:17:14Nov 29, 2006

GC048 A Tale of Two Caves...

I talked at length about the Neanderthals just a few months ago, and then as often seems to happen, a bunch of new Neanderthal news popped u...

00:21:10Nov 21, 2006

GC047 Climate Change and Logical Fallacies

This episode, the second in a series on climate change, is intended to give everybody a little background in logical fallacies. In particula...

00:28:15Nov 13, 2006

GC046 Flying Aircraft Carriers

A few weeks ago, researchers finished the first exhaustive study performed of the wreck of the USS Macon, a U.S. Navy airship. What's unique...

00:20:29Nov 1, 2006

GC045 Climate Change 101

At least in the U.S. (and judging by material on the net, increasingly in Canada and Australia as well), debate about climate change long ag...

00:27:37Oct 24, 2006

GC043 Social Darwinism and Eugenics

So-called social "Darwinism" and eugenics are two intertwined topics that always seem to come up whenever somebody wants to insult, or at le...

00:23:15Oct 8, 2006

GC042 USAF Museum Tour

We recently had a family reunion of sorts in Ohio, and after some pretty stiff negotiations, I managed to finagle some time at the "National...

00:05:29Sep 30, 2006

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