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Why We Crave Sweets
January 8, 2013Is 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:... continued
Alien Technology Working in Our World
January 8, 2013If 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... continued
Why We’re So Violent
January 8, 2013In the wake of the recent Connecticut elementary school massacre--as well as similar massacres in the US over the years--some people are wondering if violence is in our genetic makeup or if it resides in our culture (NOTE: Subscribers can... continued
911: Someone Blew Them Up
January 5, 2013Researcher André Rousseau, an expert on acoustic waves, says that his investigations of the seismic waves recorded on September 11, 2001 in the Palisades, over 20 miles away from the WTC site, and published by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of... continued
Are You a Zombie?
January 5, 2013There are parasites that infect certain insects and turn them into self-destructive zombies (and it turns out this can happen to people too--do you own a cat?) When a shrimp-like creature called a gammarid gets infected by a certain type... continued
Best Way to Search for Bigfoot: by Blimp!
January 5, 2013Many have tried to locate Bigfoot ON foot, looking and listening for him (NOTE: Subscribers may not be able to hear Bigfoot, but they can still listen to this show!), but few have succeeded. One researcher has decided that the... continued
Prodigies May be Autistic
January 3, 2013A new study of 8 child prodigies suggests a possible link between these children's special skills and autism. Of the prodigies studied, 3 had a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. In addition, half of the prodigies had a family member... continued
If Only We’d Known!
January 3, 2013Drinking to ring in the New Year may have left many of you suffering with the dreaded hangover. According to a 2009 study, the cure may be asparagus! The amino acids and minerals found in asparagus extract may alleviate alcohol... continued
Life Created From 4 Bottles of Chemicals
January 3, 2013A scientist has built a living bacterium from four bottles of chemicals. Biologist Craig Venter took the natural bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium and replaced its genetic structure with DNA they created from the chemicals. The Daily Mail quotes Venter as saying,... continued
What’s Tau Ceti HD 10700 E?
January 2, 2013It's a potentially habitable planet that's orbiting a nearby star, that's capable of having liquid water and thus supporting life as we know it. In the Huffington Post, Mike Wall quotes astronomer Steve Vogt as saying, "This discovery is in... continued