Back to Basics: Scientific Skepticism; News Items: Synthetic Cells, Trust in Science, Geothermal Update, Solar Corona Heating; Quickie with Cara: Radiation Eating Fungus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Responses to Evan; Science or Fiction

Evan Leaves SGU; News Items: Paying attention, How Queen Bees are Made, Canceling Wind, Goodbye International Space Station, US Military Restores Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Guests George Hrab and Andrea Jones Rooy; SGU Down Under; News Items: Donut Lab Battery Follow up, Fungal Superhighway, Echochambers and Radicalization, Payam Method, Strength Training and Longevity; Who's That Noisy; ADIct game; Science or Fiction

Quickie with Steve: Ebola Update; News Items: Ben Franklin's Anti-Counterfeiting Innovations, Mars Maven, Human Cooperation, Pre Cambrian Animal Senses, Peudoscience Protection Bill; Your Questions and E-mails: Sucking, Audio Cables; Science or Fiction

Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; Quickie with Bob: Meteor over New England; News Items: While House Proposal on Science Funding, Medical Aid in Dying, AI Attention, Expensive Audio Cables; The Science of Survivor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

I Learned Today: How Toilets Flush; News Items: Autism Clinics, Errors in Climate Change Database, Weekly Exercise, Why Birds Fear Women, Latest Ebola Outbreak; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

News Items: Sleep and Aging, Mental Number Maps, Digital Privacy, ArXiv Bans AI Produced Work, T-Rex Leather; Who's That Noisy; Obsoletely; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

News Items: The Interstitium and Acupuncture, Climate Change Food Insecurity, Neanderthal Dentistry, Tiny Robots, More UFO Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Consciousness; Science or Fiction

Interview with Philosopher David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Exotic Matter; News Items: When Are Screening Tests Necessary, Dawkins Writes LLMs are Conscious, Iron Flow Batteries, Haunting with Friends; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Back to Basics: Pareidolia and Apophenia; News Items: Smart Watch Health Metric Errors, Space Debris Hitting the Moon, Evolvable AI, Merging Quazars, Longevity Escape Velocity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Hype; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Cryptomnesia; News Items: Belief in Unproven Health Claims, Regenerating Limbs, Suicide Hotline Seems to Work, Why is Rubber Strong; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mythos Follow Up, Americans' Knowledge of Mexico; Science or Fiction