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And yes, despite all the warnings (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), there really IS going to be a 2013, and you can make yours especially beautiful by using Lucy Pringle’s magnificent, mysterious and uplifting new calendar–her annual selection of gorgeous images from her huge photo collection cannot be beat!

And this year, for ONE WEEK ONLY, if you input the coupon code CAL13 as you check out, you’ll get $2.00 off this beautiful calendar! This offer expires on October 15 at midnight.
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Planets die (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this provocative interview). The Earth is still alive, despite having had at least two major extinctions in the past.

The most-studied mass extinction in Earth history happened 65 million years ago and is widely thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. New research has discovered that a separate extinction came shortly before that, triggered by volcanic eruptions that warmed the planet and killed life on the ocean floor.
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A black hole is a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes billions of times bigger sive than our sun may be at the heart of most galaxies, and astronomers have now discovered one in the center of a galaxy 50 million light years away that contains the mass of 6 billion suns–and measured its radius.
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What kind of shape is YOUR brain in? Have you had an injury that has affected the way it functions? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows). Help is on the way: researchers have created a prosthetic device capable of restoring decision-making in people who have reduced capacity due to brain disease or injury. It works in non-human primates, and they believe that one day it will be possible in people. This could be the END of Alzheimer’s.
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