SIO526: Why Is College So Expensive?
David O'Brien , higher education policy scholar with the California Community Colleges System, is back to answer the question Thomas posed l...
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20 of 842 episodesSome More News Is COMPLETELY WRONG About Spider-Man Brand New Day
I cannot stop thinking about Cody from Some More News's video in which he could not stop thinking about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Cody is I...
SIO525: Dude Who Said Autism Is "Extreme Male Brain" Walks It Back
... and other autism/ADHD research! So pleased to have Dr. Jenessa Seymour back - this time with a variety of studies in the Autism and ADHD...
SIO524: Why We Haven't Cured Cancer Yet, Part 2 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)
Part 2! Dr. Eric Jaffe returns to actually treat the cancer this time: why radiation is basically catching your kid smoking and making him f...
SIO523: What Cancer Actually Is, Part 1 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)
Part 1! Dr. Eric Jaffe , the biology teacher who keeps naming proteins after cartoon characters, returns for a two-part cancer deep dive. To...
SIO522: College Is Impossibly Expensive. But It's Not Because of Bogus Degrees.
Part 2! Thomas is joined again by David O'Brien , a higher education policy scholar with the California Community Colleges system, to finish...
SIO521: The Daily Is Sane-Washing Trump's War on Higher Ed
Thomas is joined by David O'Brien , a higher education policy scholar who works for the California Community Colleges system, to pick apart...
SIO520: My Talk at SkeptiCal - Selective Skepticism Is Not Skepticism
Thanks so much to the folks at SkeptiCal for inviting me! Though the talk does deal with the Butler shooting, I thought some way different s...
SIO519: People Are Misinterpreting Obsession in Very Revealing Ways
The "nice guy" is the villain. We watched Obsession and cannot stop thinking about it. It has so much to say about gender, consent, "nice gu...
SIO518: Biological Definitions Do Not Do What Richard Dawkins Says They Do
Thomas is joined by Dr. Eric Jaffe , biologist, dinosaur enthusiast, and high school biology teacher, for a conversation that starts with a...
SIO517: How Is It That 9 Days in Space Means Weeks of Rehabilitation?
Thomas is joined by Dr. Jenessa Seymour to dig into the brain science behind a surprisingly strange phenomenon: why do astronauts who spent...
SIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler
The history of disability rights is often treated as a modern story, but what if that framing misses centuries of earlier, more complicated...
SIO515: A Vast, Global Network! ... of 3 Guys
Continuing the discussion of the CNN Rape Academy article. It gets even worse. And also, how our information environment is ruined and getti...
SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct
You might have seen the CNN article from a while back entitled Exposing a global ‘rape academy’ . While most of the article is technically t...
SIO513: Debunking Butler Conspiracy Theories in Descending Order by Scope
We continue the pruning of idiotic Butler Shooting conspiracy theories. Once we establish the facts using actual sources, what room is there...
SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.
It wasn't staged. None of them were staged. Yes Trump was shot in the ear. I thought you all were doing a bit, but apparently you weren't. T...
SIO511: What a Recent Chappell Roan Incident Teaches Us About Sexism
Well, what do you know - it's a day that ends in y so the internet has a woman to hate. You might have seen some of the chatter about child-...
SIO510: Digging Into the Science of the Placebo Effect
Popular media will tell you that placebos, inert inactive substances taken as if they’re medication, can work miracles. …Placebos don’t “wor...
SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology
Everyone's favorite biologist and dinosaur enthusiast Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! Project Hail Mary is a very fun, and quite good, sciency movie...
SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.
“Yes we can” vote and protest our way out of authoritarianism. It’s a classic case of academic literature never making it to mainstream cons...