When people tell me they are wondering who they should spend the rest of their lives with, I always suggest that they consult their ghosts. One piece of ghostly advice I got before I was married was to go to a comedy movie on the first date. It worked for us. We went to the Producers on our first date, laughed our heads off, and had a wonderful evening together.
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The humble honey bee, so small and insignificant. Yet could the possible extinction of this tiny creature have a severe and profound impact on our future?
Bee populations have been slowly dwindling for decades, threatened by a variety of different environmental adversaries, yet little is being done to recognise the profound impact their extinction would have on agriculture, our food supplies and our lives.
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This world is full of things that are out of place and time. Incredibly, we take things like the Baghdad Battery for granted. Established archaeology prefers to ignore them. In fact, the Baghdad Battery disappeared during the Iraq War and, as Whitley Strieber comments here, "it will soon disappear from the textbooks, too."
From strange artifacts to time travel, Marie and Whitley discuss the fascinating evidence. Is there evidence that people from the past could see into the future? There are some things out there that seem to have no other explanation.
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In the news today: a Japanese woman has just divorced her husband because…he didn’t like the Disney movie "Frozen."
This bizarre snippet of news inspires the question: why has this movie inspired such global acclaim, even bordering on obsession in some? Has Disney imbued it with hidden, subliminal messages?
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