Today’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results because of random error or weird samples or study design. But sometimes science gets things wrong because it’s done by humans, and humans are fallible and imperfect.
Human Evolution: Lucy and Neandertals
Brain Enhancement: October Issue of Scientific American
New Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak and Surrogates Film Director Jonathan Mostow
Clean Energy Contest; and Counting Crickets and Katydids
Where There Was Smoke, There's Science
Origins of Everything: The September Scientific American Magazine
Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax
To Bee or Not to Bee
Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid
Swimming In Spacetime and Other Stories
Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy
Movie Magic (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Part 3
Movie Magic (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Part 2
Movie Magic (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Part 1
Atul Gawande Redux
Hello Moon, Good-Bye Rennie
Panamania!: A Visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
High Achievement High Schoolers
Beauty Is Truth (and Science)
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