Tickets to next week’s live show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quiz-o-tron-tickets-61129018540 Rebecca and Keith discuss why the majority of Americans want to ban numbers from public schools. Plus, Keith invents a new segment: Click Repellent! Arabic numeral poll: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/arabic-numerals-survey-prejudice-bias-survey-research-civic-science-a8918256.html…
Rebecca and Keith discuss research that suggests boys and wealthy kids are more likely to bullshit (in the scientific sense of the word). http://time.com/5578914/bullshit-study-bs-wealthy-male/?utm_source=reddit.com For two bonus questions (and access to all previous secret bonus…
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Host: Rebecca Watson
Guests: Kate Wing, Trace Dominguez, Justin Robert Young, Keith Lowell Jensen
Categories: SCIENCE!, Animals What Are Real, A Category Rebecca Made Up to Ask One Question, Animals What Ain’t Real
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Host: Rebecca Watson
Guests: Sarafina Nance, Drew Curtis, Alex Smith, Keith Lowell Jensen
Categories: SCIENCE!, Nerds and Losers, Animals, The Science of Coast to Coast AM
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Rebecca Watson and Keith Lowell Jensen discuss the 106th Indian Science Congress and the ridiculous things said there.
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In this week’s Quizlet, Rebecca chats with her old Skepchick comrades Maria D’Souza Walters and A B Kovacs about the difference between the brains of morning people and night owls!
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Rebecca chats with astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack about rubbing elbows at Sundance, the ethics of what you eat, and whether or not close members of Dr. Mack’s family experience true self-awareness.
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Link to a news article about the test the fish passed
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Trace Dominguez joins Rebecca to chat about how baby zebra finches learn to sing from mothers who don’t sing!
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Justin Robert Young joins Rebecca to talk about what could be worse for a kid than a potato. Oxford study we discuss:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
On SciAm:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-kids-who-use-tech-seem-to-be-all-right/
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