Spies are everywhere these days (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) and their new tools–Smartphone cameras connected to social media networks–give them more power than ever. The OLD spies–in places like the Soviet Union and East Germany–would have envied the technology the average person has at his fingertips today.
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When our brave Navy SEALS captured Osama bin-Laden, who turned out to be hidden in plain sight in the vicinity of a military academy in Pakistan, many of us in the US began to wonder if Pakistan is really a US ally, and whether the Pakistani military or covert agents–or both–actually knew his whereabouts all along.
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No, it’s not Chernobyl, although the Ukraine is encouraging tourism there. Private companies are poised to take over space travel and now the newest thing in travel thrills is private submarines, which are heading for the abysmal deep, where the ocean is in perpetual darkness and strange marine creatures lurk.
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Retired NFL player Dave Duerson had endured so much pain that he killed himself–but he did it in such a way that he could will his brain to medical science so it could be studied in order to find out more about the damage that repeated concussions do to the human brain.
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