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Geek Counterpoint -- Your antidote to soundbite science!

Geek Counterpoint -- Your antidote to soundbite science!

62 episodes

Your own personal geek-to-English translator, in handy Podcast form! Equal parts topical science background, correction / explanation of poorly reported science & tech issues, and just plain interesting points to ponder. A 20 minute helping of critical thinking every week, presented in conversational style and with a dash of dry humor.

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GC061 So long, and thanks for all the fish...

Published: Sept. 12, 2007, 12:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds

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GC060 Climate Change Impacts

Published: June 2, 2007, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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GC059 Climate Change Proponents

Published: May 13, 2007, 6:23 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds

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GC058 Swindled!

Published: March 24, 2007, 10:41 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 27 seconds

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GC057 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 3)

Published: March 13, 2007, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 16 seconds

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GC056 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 2)

Published: Feb. 21, 2007, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds

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GC055 Space Weapons

Published: Feb. 10, 2007, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds

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GC054 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 1)

Published: Jan. 23, 2007, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 46 seconds

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GC053 Sergey Korolyov

Published: Jan. 12, 2007, 1:55 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 39 seconds

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GC052 Antikythera Mechanism

Published: Jan. 4, 2007, 1 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

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GC051 Stardust Preliminary Results

Published: Dec. 21, 2006, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds

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GC050 News Grab Bag #5

Published: Dec. 8, 2006, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 17 seconds

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GC049 Reactionless Drives

Published: Nov. 29, 2006, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds

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GC048 A Tale of Two Caves...

Published: Nov. 21, 2006, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds

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GC047 Climate Change and Logical Fallacies

Published: Nov. 13, 2006, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

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GC046 Flying Aircraft Carriers

Published: Nov. 1, 2006, 12:36 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds

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GC045 Climate Change 101

Published: Oct. 24, 2006, 12:29 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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GC044 The 2006 U.S. National Space Policy document

Published: Oct. 14, 2006, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds

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GC043 Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Published: Oct. 8, 2006, 4:06 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 15 seconds

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GC042 USAF Museum Tour

Published: Sept. 30, 2006, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds

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GC041 "Mr. O" Goes to Mars

Published: Sept. 19, 2006, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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GC040 News Grab Bag #4

Published: Sept. 10, 2006, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds

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GC039 Politics and Science

Published: Sept. 1, 2006, 11:20 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds

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Geek Counterpoint Administrivia

Published: Aug. 26, 2006, 3:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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GC038 Yellowstone Video Tour

Published: Aug. 23, 2006, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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GC037 What's in a Name?

Published: Aug. 11, 2006, 3:16 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds

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GC036 Meet the New Man

Published: Aug. 3, 2006, 4:40 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds

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GC035 Inflatable Spacecraft

Published: July 27, 2006, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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GC034 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Published: July 19, 2006, 4:25 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds

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GC033 Quantum Mechanics

Published: July 10, 2006, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds

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GC032 Net Neutrality

Published: June 24, 2006, 12:16 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds

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GC031 Stuck in the ITAR

Published: June 18, 2006, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds

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GC030 News Grab Bag #3

Published: June 11, 2006, 10:29 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 50 seconds

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GC029 The NSA and SNA

Published: June 3, 2006, 11:13 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds

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GC028 Love at Goon Park

Published: May 16, 2006, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 49 seconds

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GC027 General Relativity

Published: May 5, 2006, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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GC026 Down With The Old Canoe! (pt. 2)

Published: April 22, 2006, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 14 seconds

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GC025 Down With The Old Canoe! (pt. 1)

Published: April 15, 2006, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds

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GC024 A Bad Day on the Beach

Published: April 9, 2006, 1:26 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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GC023 Quantifying Chicken Little

Published: March 31, 2006, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 50 seconds

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GC022 Special Relativity

Published: March 18, 2006, 3:57 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 12 seconds

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GC021 News Grab Bag #2

Published: March 3, 2006, 12:43 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

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GC020 Gone to the Dogs (Scientists Behaving Badly #2)

Published: Feb. 23, 2006, 4:36 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds

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GC019 Vision Problems

Published: Feb. 15, 2006, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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GC018 Stem Cells

Published: Feb. 5, 2006, 3:36 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds

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GC017 Stardust: Return to Sender (part 2)

Published: Jan. 29, 2006, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 43 seconds

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GC016 Stardust: Return to Sender (part 1)

Published: Jan. 23, 2006, 2:08 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds

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GC015 The Hobbits of Flores Island

Published: Jan. 16, 2006, 1:46 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds

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GC014 The Fossil Record

Published: Jan. 9, 2006, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds

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GC013 RFID and You

Published: Jan. 2, 2006, 4:20 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds

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GC012 Beagle2--Lost Or Found?

Published: Dec. 25, 2005, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 33 seconds

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GC011 News Grab Bag #1

Published: Dec. 18, 2005, 9:46 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 42 seconds

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GC010 Polynesian Navigation

Published: Dec. 10, 2005, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds

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GC009 Piltdown Man (Scientists Behaving Badly #1)

Published: Dec. 4, 2005, 12:49 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds

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GC008 Geek Speak and Computer Security (part 2)

Published: Nov. 27, 2005, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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GC007 Geek Speak and Computer Security (part 1)

Published: Nov. 21, 2005, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds

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GC006 Covering All The Bases

Published: Nov. 12, 2005, 11:33 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds

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GC005 The Halloween Show

Published: Oct. 30, 2005, 9:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds

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GC004 Yes, But is it Science?

Published: Oct. 22, 2005, 9:52 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds

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GC003 Lemmings, Irony, and Mindsets

Published: Oct. 15, 2005, 11:56 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 3 seconds

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GC002 Has NASA Gone Hollywood?

Published: Oct. 4, 2005, 4:26 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 25 seconds

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GC001 Why This Show

Published: Sept. 28, 2005, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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