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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesClowns have a habit of terrifying many of us. So why shouldn't we be surprised to see mass clown panics?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesToday marks the 1000th Skeptoid episode. And it's time to raise the question: What are you going to do for it?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesMedieval tales of walking corpses reflect common misunderstandings of death and the era's blurred line between myth and reality.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesWhat began as 19th-century mind-cure mysticism has morphed into a billion-dollar culture that may be hurting more minds than it helps.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesUsing real science to investigate the question of whether some people can "hear" the aurora.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesThe 1928 murder of a folk healer ignited a media frenzy and moral panic, revealing how superstition and magical thinking can fuel real-world tragedy.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesWe’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—h...
Is there good science backing up the idea that you should eat based upon which of three body types you have?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesWill our improvements to AI's voracious appetite for electricity keep pace with the exploding demand?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesDo you really need to pay quite so much attention to which foods you eat, and which you avoid?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesSince psychic abilities do not exist outside the delusions of true believers, involving psychics in searches for missing persons is worse than useless.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA roundup of all the biggest and scariest real sea monsters — from today and from prehistoric times.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesHow one special moment redefined how a science teacher does her job.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesTheir exciting nature, combined with the fact nobody's ever won one, make paranormal challenge prizes important educational tools.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesHere are many popular myths about chocolate. How many can you tell are true or not?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesShe may have gotten her start as Houdini's sidekick, but Rose Mackenberg became a giant of unmasking fraudulent mediums.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesYou're going to get to enjoy some new guest hosts for a month or two on Skeptoid.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesSuper mushrooms are claimed by some to provide vague health benefits beyond their known nutritional values.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA roundup of the world's riskiest volcanoes and fault zones — and they're not necessarily the most hazardous.
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