We’ve heard good things and bad things about the method of extracting natural gas from shale that’s known as "fracking."
Fracking not only uses chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater, it also releases large amounts of natural radioactivity from the ground into the air, ¬including Radium-226, which has a half-life of 1,600 years.
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A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study CONFIRMS the existence of a the hominin hybrid species living in North America that is commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch" (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Their extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown human species.
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Here’s something to think about when you go to some of those holiday blockbusters (NOTE–Subscribers can still listen to this show): Movies COST lots of money, but they MAKE lots of money too–they’re one of this country’s major exports. Since filmmaking is such a high dollar business, you’d think films would show capitalists as heroes, but they don’t–most money men in movies are villains.
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Capitalism would die if we didn’t, but it doesn’t do much for our spiritual life (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). As "Black Friday"–the biggest shopping day of the year in the US–approaches, it’s something to think about.
In the Guardian, Heidi Moore quotes British comedian Louis CK as saying, "We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots."
Moore quotes product designer Thomas Wensma as saying, "We want something new, something pretty, the next shiny thing." read more