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Making a New Moon

January 21, 2013
NASA may be planning to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit, giving the Moon a moon of its own. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion--slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover--and it would take about... continued

Australian Gun Control–Did it Work?

January 21, 2013
As our Congress furiously debates gun control, it's interesting to see what happened in Australia when they banned certain types of weapons in 1996. John Howard was prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, and in the January 17th... continued

Chimp Depravity

January 18, 2013
Animals can be as depraved as humans--they can even watch porn. When Gina, a female chimpanzee at the Seville Zoo in Spain, was given a TV set, she began to watch pornography almost constantly. In the Huffington Post reports an... continued

Dumb and Dumber or Smart and Smarter?

January 18, 2013
Is the human race getting dumber? geneticist Gerald Crabtree thinks that human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and from then on, has been on a slow decline. His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99%... continued

NEW Bermuda Triangle Sucks Up Famous Fashion Designer

January 18, 2013
The Bermuda Triangle (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) is an area in the Atlantic Ocean between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where many ships are said to have "disappeared." Another Bermuda-like Triangle is the Devil's Sea, in... continued

Why Things Get Stale

January 17, 2013
Food gets stale (and if you're eating TOO MUCH of it before it has a chance to, you need Anne Strieber's famous diet book!) and experiences do too. For instance, a song that we hear over and over again eventually... continued

Cancer on the Job

January 17, 2013
Working with plastic parts containing BPA--in auto industries, for instance--may make women more vulnerable to breast cancer. Women in Toronto's plastic automotive parts factories have complained about pungent fumes and dust that caused nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and dizziness. In the... continued

Meteorite Reveals Extraterrestrial Life

January 17, 2013
A meteorite that recently landed close to a city in Sri Lanka may be "the most important scientific discovery in the last 500 years" since it brought "compelling evidence of life" from space. On the Island website, Walter Jayawardhana quotes... continued

More Pesticides Now Than Ever Before

January 16, 2013
Despite the upsurge in organic foods, American agriculture is using more pesticides than ever before. Coupled with antibiotics fed to livestock, the farm is becoming a dangerous place for humans! The Department of Agriculture says that the average American is... continued

What We Can Learn from Traditional People

January 16, 2013
What can we learn from indigenous cultures, who still live the same way that everyone did thousands of years ago? Geographer Jared Diamond points out that, for most of history, people lived in small groups as hunter-gatherers. Agriculture began 11,000... continued