The Reality Check

Podcasts

Canada's weekly podcast that explores a wide range of controversies and curiosities using science and critical thinking.

Episodes

TRC #734: AI Privacy Threats + Goodhart's Law and Fast Food Order Status Screens

TRC #733: What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like? + Book Review: Chokepoints by Edward Fishman

TRC #732: Our Windy Solar System + Classroom Windows on the Left Side

TRC #731: Movie Franchise "Use It Or Lose It" Clauses + Anthropic's Mythos

TRC #730: How Old Are Sharks? + Jim Carrey: Clone, Doppleganger or Mask?

TRC #729: Digital Devices in Schools + Books Reviews: Enshittification & Breakneck

TRC #728: Does Moltbook AI Matter? + Family Feud Surveys

TRC #727: Things Your Parents Said Were Illegal + Canada's Apology Laws

TRC #726: Are Orange Cats Weird? + What Kind of Cat is Garfield?

TRC #725: Infant Simulator Programs + Book Reviews: The Thinking Machine, The Philosopher in the Valley & Peak Human

TRC #724: Mistletoe + Christmas Tree Lights

TRC #723: The Introduction to Darren McKee's Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World

TRC #722: Effective Giving + The Mona Lisa

TRC #721: Our 2023 Interview with Yoshua Bengio

TRC #720: Diabetes and DKA + Name That: Spot The Fake

TRC #719: The Disney Point and Smoking + Book Reviews: Shadow Cell and Algospeak

TRC #718: Philosophical Zombies + Vampires and Tuberculosis

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

TRC #716: Depicting Intelligence in Fiction

TRC #715: Mashup: Trees