We’ve just finished Christmas–a holiday that tends to make us both giving AND greedy, so it’s interesting to note that "paying it forward"–a popular expression for extending generosity to others after someone has been generous to you –is a heartwarming concept, but what happens MOST OFTEN is that people repay greed with greed.
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The NOAA-supported Northeast Regional Climate Center is currently reviewing temperature data for 2012 from throughout the 12-state region, and researchers have discovered that for most major sites–including Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia and New York City–it was the hottest year ever recorded–something we tend to overlook when we’re in the midst of storms and blizzards.
Climatologist Samantha Borisoff says, "The year 2012 was the warmest year on record for 23 of the 35 major climate sites in the Northeast.
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Is one of your resolutions (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) for 2013 to lose weight? If so, one of your main problems is probably sweets–why do we crave them, and what can we do about this? (NOTE: Anne Strieber’s diet book, now reduced to $3 from $5, has some good advice about this).
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If we encountered alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was? Technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear miraculous, just as an airplane or TV set would seem miraculous to prehistoric man.
Astrobiologist Paul Davis thinks that advanced technology might not even be made of matter, that it might have no size, shape or boundaries. It may not appear to do anything at all that we can figure out.
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