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Cloud Seeding

Episode 971, January 14, 2025

Cloud seeding would seem like an easy and obvious way to create rain where none existed before. Is it really that simple?

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Economic Nationalism: Bounty or Bust?
Episode 970, January 7, 2025
Economic nationalism, while attractive to many populists, is not the path to economic success some believe it to be.

Listener Feedback: Bats and Pyramids
Episode 969, December 31, 2024
Skeptoid answers another round of feedback emails sent in by listeners.

Waldorf Schools
Episode 968, December 24, 2024
These schools combine an atypical education with a New Age spirituality called anthroposophy.

Cryonics: A Chilling Prospect
Episode 967, December 17, 2024
Cryonics promises an opportunity for you to be frozen and revived at some distant point in the future — though with plenty of controversy.

Student Questions: Exploding Teeth and Reproductive Rocks
Episode 966, December 10, 2024
Skeptoid answers another round of questions from students all around the world.

The Legend of the Dover Demon
Episode 965, December 3, 2024
What could explain a strange creature living in the suburbs, but only ever witnessed once?

Fixing a Flood of Flaws
Episode 964, November 26, 2024
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors in previous episodes.

Hunting the Gloucester Sea Serpent
Episode 963, November 19, 2024
This alleged sea serpent terrorized a New England fishing village for two years in the 19th century.

Bats and Rabies
Episode 962, November 12, 2024
Bats are scary and rabies is deadly, but do you need to worry about you or your pets catching the disease from them?

The Man from Taured
Episode 961, November 5, 2024
A mysterious man is said to have arrived in Japan in 1959 from a country that never existed.

I Know What Scares You
Episode 960, October 29, 2024
Seven creepy stories from seven listeners, and seven guesses by me.

Finding the Black Olmec
Episode 959, October 22, 2024
A thoroughly discredited idea, that the Mesoamerican Olmec people were Black Africans, continues to gain traction.

The Rock Wall of Texas
Episode 958, October 15, 2024
This buried rock wall found throughout Rockwall County has people wondering about its origin.

Click Clack Bark: Dogs Who Type
Episode 957, October 8, 2024
Can dogs be taught to speak intelligently using floor buttons that represent words?

18 for 18
Episode 956, October 1, 2024
Highlights from 18 years of the Skeptoid podcast.

Pop Quiz: Astonishing Aviation Tales
Episode 955, September 24, 2024
Fifteen trivia questions from previous aviation themed episodes of Skeptoid.

15 Sleep Myths
Episode 954, September 17, 2024
15 popular myths about sleeping, debunked.

Pet Pheromone Products
Episode 953, September 10, 2024
Lots of companies sell pheromone products claiming to calm down your dog or cat, but there's a very big problem with that basic claim.

Finding Slumach's Gold
Episode 952, September 3, 2024
Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time?

Dying of Excited Delirium
Episode 951, August 27, 2024
Turns out that the cause of death known as excited delirium is not an actual cause of death at all.

A Modern Skeptic Podcast Host
Episode 950, August 20, 2024
If I were to summarize how and why I do what I do, I might put it this way.

Hunting the Graveyard of the Elephants
Episode 949, August 13, 2024
Does a mythical place where the elephants go to die actually exist?

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death
Episode 948, August 6, 2024
The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.

How Your Driving Is Being Tracked
Episode 947, July 30, 2024
Is your phone really tracking your driving habits and selling the data? Maybe more so than you know.

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