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The Reality Check

The Reality Check

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 Canada's weekly podcast that explores a wide range of controversies and curiosities using science and critical thinking.Copyright The Reality Check 博物学 社会科学 科学 自然・生態学
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  • TRC #717: Air Conditioning in Europe + Book Reviews: Privacy and Surveillance and Quantum Mechanics

    TRC #717: Air Conditioning in Europe + Book Reviews: Privacy and Surveillance and Quantum Mechanics
    2025/10/07

    Why does air conditioning seem to be more common in North America than in Europe or other places around the world? Adam looks at the many factors that can encourage or hinder adoption of AC in various places. Darren gives us book reviews on a variety of topics with “What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics” by Adam Becker and “Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics” by Gary Drescher.
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    28 分
  • TRC #716: Depicting Intelligence in Fiction

    TRC #716: Depicting Intelligence in Fiction
    2025/09/22

    How is intelligence portrayed in works of fiction? In books, films and TV, we often see depictions of very smart of sometimes less intelligent people, but it’s never totally realistic. Darren leads a conversation about various fictional portrayals of intelligence from Ender Wiggin and Sherlock Holmes to Joey Tribbiani and Homer Simpson. When do they get it right and why, and what do they often get wrong?
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    29 分
  • TRC #715: Mashup: Trees

    TRC #715: Mashup: Trees
    2025/09/09

    Wood you believe that it’s all about trees on the latest episode of The Reality Check podcast? Here are two classic segments about trees. First up is an interview with tree expert Owen Clarkin who gets to the root of many tree facts. That segment may have planted the seeds for a future segment so we leave you with Pat who looks into claims that the Amazon rainforest is the Earth’s lungs.
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    29 分
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