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People have been trying to predict earthquakes (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) for thousands of years. Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth. In National Geographic News, Richard Lovett quotes the ancient Roman writer Claudius Aelianus as saying, "After these creatures departed, an earthquake occurred in the night,. The city subsided; an immense wave flooded and Helike disappeared."
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Are you fat and happy? (If you’re NOT happy about being fat, you need Anne Strieber’s famous diet book!) Scientists have discovered that the major genetic contributor to obesity is also associated with an 8% reduction in depression. In other words, it’s both a "fat gene" and a "happy gene."

This study challenges the common perception of a reciprocal link between depression and obesity: That obese people become depressed because of their appearance and social and economic discrimination; depressed individuals may lead less active lifestyles and change eating habits to cope with depression that causes them to become obese.
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There is no reason to doubt that this object is not a genuine unknown. Its shape is typical of many such objects, it is moving at far too high a speed to be a balloon or a radio controlled toy. It is an unknown object.
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