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The Reality Check

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  • Canada's weekly podcast that explores a wide range of controversies and curiosities using science and critical thinking.
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  • TRC #690: Early Mammals + Would You Rather Encounter a Man or a Bear in the Woods?
    Jun 3 2024

    What were the first mammals like? Darren examines what characterizes a mammal and explores the world of early mammals, who coexisted with the dinosaurs. Adam investigates the discourse around a viral question which asks “Would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear?”, using some simple statistics to inform the issue.

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    32 m
  • TRC #689: The Science of Dune's Sandworms + AI Personal Assistants
    May 20 2024

    Could the huge Sandworms in Frank Herbert's Dune really exist? Adam looks at how scientifically plausible these odd creatures might be. In light of recent news about Open AI's GPT-4o and Google's Project Astra, Darren look at the latest advances in AI personal assistants, speculates where this could be leading and shares a passage from his book Uncontrollable on the topic.

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    37 m
  • TRC #688: Interview with Spencer Greenberg
    May 5 2024

    Spencer Greenberg is the founder Clearer Thinking, a web site which provides tools for critical thinking, as well as Transparent Replications, which does rapid replications of papers in psychology and behavioural studies. In this interview he discusses the replication crisis in scientific studies, what’s causing it and what can be done to reduce these problems.

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    33 m

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