Catching a fly ball may look easy, but scientists know that it’s anything but: it turns out it’s the hardest hit to catch.

Researcher Ken Fuld became curious about this when his son began playing professional baseball. He says, “An outfielder is computing a collision course between the ball and the fielder in much the same way as a bird of prey tries to intercept another bird also in flight for its meal or an insect tries to contact a member of the opposite sex for the purpose of mating. Fielders must figure out the trajectory of the ball and combine that with information about their own movement in a way that requires a quick initial calculation of this information and then constant updating of information to correct for slight errors.”
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Starfire Tor is among the world’s most unusual people, because she could be a time traveler, or connected in some way that not even she understands to the future. Listen as she and her longtime friend and co-researcher Brandon Scott tell some of the strangest and best documented stories of apparent time travel ever told. Then Linda Howe reports on strange cat deaths.

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Anne Strieber interviews Starfire Tor and Brandon Scott about shamanic powers, psi, and how they relate to the near death experience and parallel universes. She asks Starfire the question, “could mediums not be contacting the dead, but actually entering parallel universes where people who are dead in our world are still alive?” Starfire’s answers to this and other questions are completely unexpected, new, and very refreshing.

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