I am mainly linking this for the Special Segment on Falsifiability in Science with a philosophy expert on it, which is really interesting. The rest of the podcast is interesting too and there is a great discussion on how AI Detection Tools for detecting AI Writing are extremely problematic.
Episode #1096 News Items Using AI To Detect AI Cheating Teens Using AI Chatbots NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method SETI Partly Explains Fermi Quickie with Bob https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html Special Segment What is “Falsifiability” Science or Fiction Item #1 An analysis of the scat of the California Gray Wolf finds a significant contribution of domesticated pets in their diet. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0351768 Item #2 A recent study finds that individual human neurons have significantly more computational information than rat neurons, which is likely one mechanism for increased human intelligence. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2533168123 Item #3 A new analysis finds that a bilaterally symmetrical species from the Ediacaran fauna shows signs of “handedness”, or one-sided preference. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53857-x Skeptical Quote of the Week. “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.” – Poul Anderson