When We Choose to Die
2012-12-21
Most of us don’t want to die today (and most of us won’t have to), but a lot of us WOULD like to choose when and how we do it, when the time comes.
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What’s Your Death Day
2012-12-21
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Since the end of the world didn’t happen, we really don’t know. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
We all know our birthday, but hospice doctors know something we don’t: They know our death day. It turns out our genes do too–researchers believe they have found a gene that regulates the time of day a person is likely to die (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this provocative interview). read more
Another Medical Miracle
2012-12-21
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I’ve learned about yet another miracle. This keeps happening to me, and I don’t really know why, but I truly treasure these moments–when someone confides something to me which cannot be categorized, but which REALLY HAPPENED.
It all happened in a very mundane situation, when I was having an initial appointment with a doctor. He asked me my medical history (as they all do), and I, of course, told him about how I almost died 8 years ago from a burst aneurysm in my brain.
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Unusual lenticular cloud over Ankara
2012-12-21
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This appears to be an ordinary lenticular cloud, except for that steadily glowing ring at the base. To be shaped like that, a plasma would need to be generated artificially, and, in any case, no naturally occurring plasma would remain stable for more than a few seconds. One other explanation is that the cloud is being lit from below, but there is no indication of any large lighted area under it, such as a stadium with a ring of floodlights. Lastly, it could be lit from within. If so, then what would be in it?
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