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Scientifically, we are much closer to teleportation that you can imagine. This week, William Henry interviews writer Sherry Baker about her new article in the June issue of Discover Magazine, and you are going to be absolutely amazed at what we are finding out about what seem to be completely impossible, even magical, things such as instantaneous movement.

Our world is changing fast–much faster than we think. Don’t miss the boat. Sherry Baker has her hands on the tiller, and she’s going to take us up the river into a future of things like teleportation, body swapping and out-of-body movement.

Read Sherry’s Discover article. Click here.
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I recently read a magazine article that said something to the effect of, "Women can have it all" (meaning a career, a happy marriage, and motherhood)–"They just can’t have it all AT ONCE." I think men are now in the same leaky boat.

Longer life spans and the recession have combined to mean that both sexes live their lives in stages.

For women, it used to be education (sometimes), job (sometimes), marriage, motherhood, then empty nest.
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Think your desk is filthy? What about your hotel room? We all hope the room we rent is clean and hygienic, but we have no way of knowing how clean it really is. If recommended NASA cleaning standards are adopted by hotel chains, you can be sure that your hotel is at least as clean as a spaceship.

When a group of researchers decided to find out by swabbing surfaces in hotel rooms in Indiana, Texas and South Carolina, they found the bedside lamp switch and the TV remote control were the areas where most of the bacteria were found.
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A member of the Russian parliament accused the Kremlin of using chemicals to induce the torrential downpours that soaked tens of thousands of demonstrators at an anti-Putin demonstration, causing them to disband more than an hour before the protest was scheduled to end. Opposition leader Ilya Ponomaryov wrote on his blog. "An anomalously high content of silver iodide" was found in rainwater collected during the day and analyzed by chemists.

But if Putin was a rainmaker, wouldn’t he do something about the drought that is destroying Russian agriculture?
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