The Reality Check

TRC #713: Testosterone Replacement Therapy + Book Review Roundup: Apple in China, An Immense World, Canada Alone, Pronoun Trouble, Rise Above

TRC #712: AI Make Brain Dumb? + Mentalism

TRC #711: Are Dire Wolves Back? + Book Review Roundup: Nexus, Stoicism, CBT Made Simple, Philosophers in 90 Minutes

TRC #710: Remembering Dr. Stuart Farrimond

TRC #709: 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla + Evidence of Alien Life on an Exoplanet?

TRC #708: The Telepathy Tapes + AI Cheating At Chess?

TRC #707: Is Tim Hortons Canadian? + Mysterious Structures Under The Great Pyramid

TRC #706: An AI Generated Podcast by NotebookLM

TRC #705: Book Round Up: Family Unfriendly and One Billion Americans + Is The 401 The Busiest Highway In The World?

TRC #704: Remembering Joe Nickell

TRC #703: Jevons’ Paradox + American vs. Canadian ingredients in food

TRC #702: Talking Close Relationships with Dr. Cheryl Harasymchuk

TRC #701: How Many Birds Do Cats Kill? + Book Review Roundup

TRC #700: The Rise of Podcasts + Are False Beliefs More Common?

TRC #699: Was Lamarck That Wrong? + What Do Animals See On A TV?

TRC #698: Converting Office Space to Housing + Book Review: The Singularity is Nearer

TRC #697: Did Hedy Lamarr Invent Wi-Fi? + Name That: Spot the Fake

TRC #696: Did Sakana AI Change Its Own Code? + Who is Margaret Hello?

TRC #695: The Science of Sharknado + Book Review: Invisible Rulers by Renée DiResta

TRC #694: Can Meditation Be Harmful? + Did Cavemen Live in Caves?

TRC #693: When Is Soap Not Really Soap? + Book Review: Determined

TRC #692: Cultivating Critical Thinking + Letting Food Cool Before Refrigerating It

TRC #691: Why Can’t AI Do Laundry and Dishes?

TRC #690: Early Mammals + Would You Rather Encounter a Man or a Bear in the Woods?

TRC #689: The Science of Dune's Sandworms + AI Personal Assistants

TRC #688: Interview with Spencer Greenberg

TRC #687: Remembering Daniel Dennett

TRC #686: The Stanford Prison Experiment + Is AI Taking Over Creative Jobs?

TRC #685: AI More Creative Than Humans? + Safe Solar Eclipse Viewing

TRC #684: Aliens in Mexican Congress? + Book Review: Outlive by Peter Attia

TRC #683: AI News: Sora, Gemini 1.5 and Implications + Jailbreaks by Hiding Files in Cakes

TRC #682: Oppenheimer Movie Discussion

TRC #681: Are Poinsettias Poisonous? + Mickey Mouse and the Public Domain

TRC #680: Annual Predictions: 2024 Edition + Down Syndrome Strength + A Special Message From Pat and Cristina

TRC #679: A Chat With Author Darren McKee: Uncontrollable

TRC #678: Darren's AI Book is Out!

TRC #677: Interview with Yoshua Bengio

TRC #676: Phenylephrine Ineffective? + Bees Are Doing Fine

TRC #675: Mashup: The Centrifuge Brain Project + Avril Double + V-Steaming

TRC #674: How Does AI Image Generation Work? + Why Is A Bug Called A Bug?

TRC #673: UFO Whistleblower? + Will We Make Great Pets For An Artificial Super Intelligence?

TRC #672: Are Fingerprints Really Unique? + What’s A Buttload? + Why AI Researchers Don’t Quit

TRC #671: Uncertainty And AI Risk + Spot The Fake

TRC #670: Mashup: Fire and Smoke

TRC #669: Coronal Mass Ejection + The Technology Trap

TRC #668: Dark Chocolate Has Heavy Metals? + What Happened To The Dinosaurs?

TRC #667: Special Intro + A Chat With Karl Mamer

TRC #666: The Number Of The Beast Origins + Name That: Spot The Fake

TRC #665: Is It Safe To Stand In Front of Microwave Ovens? Interview with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy About The Simulation Hypothesis

TRC #664: Thundersnow + Customer Always Right? + A Look At “The Metaverse”