The Skeptics Guide #1032 - Apr 19 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Skepticism, Paranormal, Psuedoscience, Science, Fringe-science, Skeptic

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone; News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Separate the Art from the Artists, Does the Moon Rotate; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:18.1	Joining me this week, or Bob Novella.
0:20.1	Hey, everybody.
0:20.7	Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jane Novella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.0	Howdy.
0:22.6	Jay Novella.
0:23.4	Hey, guys.
0:24.2	And the recently not doing taxes, Evan Bernstein.
0:28.7	Oh, so this is what sunlight looks like, right?
0:31.4	April 16th is one day after tax day.
0:34.1	So now you get a little bit of a breather.
0:35.6	I know you still have like other stuff to do.
0:37.4	Yeah, now we enter the second. Right. The extensions. It's fascinating because I become very
0:42.9	immersed in the work. I mean, just the volume itself takes up all of my time. For example, I will get up
0:49.8	at, uh, and be out of the house at seven in the morning, every morning, if not earlier. And I, in, in these later
0:55.8	days leading up to April 15th, I'd be getting home at two in the morning. I kid you not,
1:00.4	going right to sleep and then waking up and doing it again. And that's really how my last
1:04.3	couple of weeks of the season was this year. So there is, there is really not much else. It's amazing I've actually made the podcast as often as I had because that's the only other thing I've been able to kind of squeeze in here.
1:16.4	Haven't been doing which game first.
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