SIO531: Your Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs, According to a New Stanford Study
We welcome back Dr. Eric Jaffe to help us understand a really cool, groundbreaking scientific discovery! Our brains are not one organ! Turns...
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20 of 847 episodesSIO530: Did AI Actually "Solve" That Famous Math Problem?
You've seen the headline: AI "solved" one of math's Millennium Prize problems. Thomas and Jenessa (here as a friend, not an expert) are join...
SIO529: AI in Schools Makes Students Feel Smarter. The Tests Say Otherwise.
How does AI use affect learning? You’d be surprised how much we already know. Dr. Jenessa Seymour takes us through the research on screen us...
SIO528: The Marshmallow Test Is Mostly BS, and It's Not the Only Classic Psych Test Like That
Kids are weird, like really weird, but in a fun way? Dr. Jenessa Seymour is back to tell us about some classic child development paradigms t...
SIO527: The Science of Why We Ask Why, with Dr. Tania Lombrozo
Dr. Tania Lombrozo , professor of psychology at Princeton University (affiliated with its philosophy and cognitive science departments), joi...
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...
Some 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...