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Interview with David Grossnickle; What's the Word: Iatrogenic; News Items: Universe Expanding Faster than Thought, Illusion of Choice, Is Hands Free Safer; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Noel Edmonds; Your Questions and E-mails: Antibiotics in Mexico, Mythbuster Science; Science or Fiction

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Andrew Benson; News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer Again, Total Bacterial Resistance, Bumble Bees Sense Electric Fields, What's Happening to our Oceans; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Cauliflory; Science or Fiction

Special Guests: Richard Wiseman and Hai-Ting Chinn; What's the Word: Autotomy; News Items: Watch Pseudoscience, Tabletop Particle Accelerators, GMO Sugar, Facebook News Algorithm, Blinking; Science or Fiction

SGU Live from NECSS with special guest: Bill Nye; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Cecilia Helena-Payne Gaposshkin; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Prince Charles and Homeopathy; News Items: Failure is an Option, Prosecuting Climate Change Denial, Lost Myan City, Why is Space 3D; What's the Word: Group Animal Names; Science or Fiction

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Yvonne Brill; News Items: Growing Human Embryos, Overprescribing Antibiotics, Earth-sized Exoplanets, Mike Adams Slanders Skeptics; What's the Word: Amphidromic, Questions and E-mails: Muad'Dib; Science or Fiction

SGU 11 Year Anniversary; What's The Word: Propaganda; News Items: Repealing Canadian Science Censorship, Bulletproof Biohacking, Origin of Gravity Waves, Slime Mold Memory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Talc and Cancer; Science or Fiction

Interview with Michael Whelan; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Annie Maunder; News Items: Zinc Flash at Conception, Plant Prion Memory, Parents Convicted in Toddler's Death; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Hyperthymesia; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Geodesic; News Items: Neural Bypass, Dinosaur Extinction, Universe in the Lab, Genetic Superheroes; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Homophily; News Items: Metal Foam, Pig Heart Transplants, Should We Hide from Aliens, Computer Artists; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fishmato; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: words without English equivalents; News Items: Food Production, Swearing, Laser Propulsion; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Predictions; Your Questions and E-mails: Carter UFO Follow Up; Science or Fiction

Special Guest: Kevin Folta; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dorothy Hodgkin; News Items: Ghosts in the Brain, Neuronal Feedback, Tribeca Pulls Anti-Vax Film, Minimal Genome, Vegetarians and Cancer; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Chemiosmosis; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Equilux; News Items: Supernova Shock Wave, Desk Exercise, Angry Suns, Moderate Drinkers and Health; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Shouting Fire; Science or Fiction

Interview with Bruce Hood; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose; News Items: AI Assistant, Cryotherapy; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Sciolism; Your Questions and E-mails: Valsalva Revisited, Non-Newtonian Fluids; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Thixotrophy; News Items: Overconfidence, AI vs Go Champion, Minority Report; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Piloting and Valsava; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Guest Rogue: George Hrab; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Norman Borlaug; News Items: Uploading Memories, A Year in Space, Fast Radio Bursts, Imaging Alzheimer's Disease, Galaxy Symmetry; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Guest Rogue: Julia Galef; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dr. Moona Hanna-Attisha; News Items: Air Pollution and Public Health, Mystery Moon Music, Gender Bias Among Programmers; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Free Speech vs Social Justice; Science or Fiction

Interview with Kevin Folta; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nikolai Vavilov; News Items: 14 Billion Year Memory, 3D Printing Body Parts, Eating Mammoth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: David Suzuki; Science or Fiction

What's the Word: Pleochroism; News Items: Robotic Chef, Brain Electrodes, Diagnosing Cancer, Gravitational Waves; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: RFID; Science or Fiction

Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lorna Wing; News Items: Concussions in the NFL, Zika Conspiracy, Planetary Defense System, Lab-Grown Meat; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word; Science or Fiction

Interview with SciBabe; What's the Word; News Items: The Viability of Conspiracies, The Aliens are Dead, Marvin Minsky, Probiotics Hype; Your Questions and E-mails: Fake Skeptic Scam; Science or Fiction