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Life Created From 4 Bottles of Chemicals

January 3, 2013
A 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, 2013
It'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

Data Collected to Use Against You

January 2, 2013
Spying has changed in the internet age--Now we leave a record of what we're doing and what we're interested in every time we click on a website, post on a social network or purchase something online. Homeland Security and police... continued

Wasting Time–A Good Thing?

January 2, 2013
"Haste makes waste"--it's an old adage, but it turns out to be true: Our brains make more mistakes when we act too quickly. Because the brain must make snap decisions based on less information than it uses for slower decisions,... continued

Times When We Function Best

January 2, 2013
By paying attention to our body clocks, we can figure out what times we function best at certain tasks, and decide whether to put them aside for later--or do them right away. This can range from manual tasks to creative... continued

Beware the FOODover

December 31, 2012
If you have get a hangover after New Year's Eve parties, it may not just be what you drank--it could be what those canapés you ate as well (and if you ate TOO MUCH, you need Anne Strieber's famous diet... continued

POP!

December 31, 2012
The force of a champagne cork can shatter glass--and it can also seriously injure your eye. Warm bottles of champagne and improper cork-removal techniques cause serious, potentially blinding eye injuries each year. Champagne bottles contain pressure as high as 90... continued

Alcohol Can Rewire Our Brains

December 31, 2012
Is it possible to rewire our brain? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Sometimes this may happen without our knowledge, such as when we drink too much. Doctors have long recognized a link between alcoholism and anxiety disorders... continued

Popular Furniture Brand Originally Built by Political Prisoners

December 28, 2012
When we're searching for simply-styled, low-cost furniture, fixtures and accessories, many of us head for Ikea. But there's something most of us don't know: This Swedish company originally used East German prisoners who were incarcerated for their political beliefs, to... continued

Changing the Speed of Time

December 28, 2012
We may not be able to manipulate the speed of light, but by tinkering with the neural connections that indicate its passage in our brains, we may be able to alter the speed of time--or at least with how fast... continued