Skeptoid

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
  • Editor: Podcast
  • Duración: 229:39:16
  • Mas informaciones

Informações:

Sinopsis

Since 2006, the weekly Skeptoid podcast has been taking on all the most popular myths and revealing the true science, true history, and true lessons we can learn from each. Free subscribers get the most recent 50 episodes, premium subscribers (skeptoid.com) can access the full archive, all ad-free.

Episodios

  • Skeptoid #557: Who Were the Berserkers?

    07/02/2017 Duración: 13min

    These mighty Norse warriors fought with a frenzy that seems all but inexplicable.

  • Skeptoid #556: Exploring Kincaid's Cave

    31/01/2017 Duración: 13min

    Some say a marvelous cave of Egyptian wonders is hidden in the Grand Canyon.

  • Skeptoid #555: Thorium Reactors: Fact and Fiction

    24/01/2017 Duración: 14min

    These next-generation reactors have attracted a nearly cultish following. Here are the real facts.

  • Skeptoid #554: How Your Credit Card Got Stolen

    17/01/2017 Duración: 14min

    Here are the most likely ways that your credit card got stolen, and how you can prevent it in the future.

  • Skeptoid #553: How Your Password Got Stolen

    10/01/2017 Duración: 13min

    The facts, fiction, and real risk to you of all these high-profile data breaches online.

  • Skeptoid #552: The D. B. Cooper Mystery

    03/01/2017 Duración: 13min

    The world's only unsolved hijacking case is filled with misinformation.

  • Skeptoid #551: Space Missions You Should Know

    27/12/2016 Duración: 13min

    A roundup of the most exciting and important space missions you really need to know about.

  • Skeptoid #550: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

    20/12/2016 Duración: 13min

    In 1944, a strange night prowler is believed to have made poison gas attacks in Illinois. Here's what we know.

  • Skeptoid #549: The Simple Proof of Man-Made Global Warming

    13/12/2016 Duración: 14min

    The two most basic Smoking Guns proving that carbon from fossil fuels is warming the Earth.

  • Skeptoid #548: Bruce Lee Myths

    06/12/2016 Duración: 13min

    More mythology than fact surrounds this enigmatic figure from martial arts films.

  • Skeptoid #547: The Ghost Fighter Plane of Pearl Harbor

    29/11/2016 Duración: 12min

    Published accounts tell of a mysterious fighter plane that came into Pearl Harbor a year after the Japanese attack.

  • Skeptoid #546: There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There?

    22/11/2016 Duración: 13min

    Genetically, race does not exist; but there are still inconvenient places for it in science.

  • Skeptoid #545: First in Flight

    15/11/2016 Duración: 14min

    You always thought the Wright Brothers were the first to fly a plane? Well, it depends what country you're from.

  • Skeptoid #544: Feedback and Followups

    08/11/2016 Duración: 12min

    Some nifty extra information for a few recent episodes supplied by listeners in the know.

  • Skeptoid #543: White Hat Journal Hoaxes

    01/11/2016 Duración: 14min

    Sometimes the best way to scrutinize an open access journal is to hoax them.

  • Skeptoid #542: Photographic Memory

    25/10/2016 Duración: 13min

    Pop culture tells us that some people have photographic memories, but the truth is quite different.

  • Skeptoid #541: Defusing India's Ancient Atomic Blasts

    18/10/2016 Duración: 13min

    The facts behind an urban legend claiming a nuclear war in India some 12,000 years ago.

  • Skeptoid #540: Feng Shui Today

    11/10/2016 Duración: 13min

    Feng shui is much more than just a debunked way to magically arrange furniture.

  • Skeptoid #539: Radiation Hormesis: Is It Good for You?

    04/10/2016 Duración: 14min

    Some say that exposure to small amounts of dangerous radiation can protect you from cancer. No, it probably doesn't.

  • Skeptoid #538: The Belgian UFO Wave

    27/09/2016 Duración: 14min

    For two years, some say the Belgian skies were filled with triangular alien UFOs.

página 24 de 52