The Skeptics Guide #1049 - Aug 16 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

News Items: Jim Lovell Dies at 97, Music Anhedonia, Lithium and Alzheimer's, CHAT GPT-5, Dangerous Worm Cleanse; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mini Nuclear Reactors; Who Am I; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.7	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.7	Hey, everybody.
0:20.3	Kara Santa Maria. Howdy? Jay Novella. Hey, this week are Bob Novella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy?
0:21.9	Jay Novela. Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, folks. Welcome back, Jay. How was Alaska?
0:28.7	Yeah, it was, um, it was awesome. It was really more than I expected. You know, you know how you pick up
0:34.5	information as you live your life and you just kind of have an impression of something?
0:38.8	My impression of Alaska was, it was just covered in forests and there's tons of animals.
0:43.3	And I have to admit, I didn't know that parts of Alaska have amazing mountains and that's where I was.
0:48.9	I was in a town called Gurdwood.
0:51.4	That's where Bob's daughter, Ashley, lives with her boyfriend. And I'm super
0:56.2	close with both of those guys, not just because, but a big, a big addition to it was that they got
1:02.1	stuck at my house for COVID and they were here for years, you know. Yeah, these guys moved out there
1:07.2	and they're both conservationists and Ashley is working at a animal conservatory where they have
1:13.9	everything.
1:14.7	They've got bears and bobcats.
1:17.5	Porcupines.
1:18.5	Porcupines, a bald-headed eagle.
1:20.9	They've got like reindeer.
1:22.6	Just, you know, black bear, brown bears.
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