2019-03-01
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December 31, 2012The 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, 2012Is 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, 2012When 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, 2012We 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
Want to Live a Long Life? Have Kids!
December 28, 2012Studies show that parents live much longer than people who do not have children--they even get fewer colds. Using statistics, Danish researcher Esben Agerbo discovered that women without children experienced an annual rate of death four times greater than those... continued
Habits: Good and Bad
December 27, 2012Habits are behaviors that are so deeply wired into our brains that we perform them automatically. They can be both good and bad: A habit can allow you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about... continued
Drinking Can SAVE Your Life
December 27, 2012If you have a car accident and are taken to the hospital, you're less likely to die if you've been drinking (as long as you weren't drinking so much that it CAUSED the accident!) It turns out that injured patients... continued
Europeans Related to Native Americans–BEFORE They Came to North America
December 27, 2012You may think you know who your ancestors were, but do you REALLY? Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations--including British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans--are descended from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations,... continued
Our DNA Doesn’t Predict What Will Kill Us
December 27, 2012If we could test every infant's DNA at birth, we could predict what future diseases they might have and guard against them early--right? Wrong! In the April 3rd edition of the New York Times, Gina Kolata quotes researcher Bert Vogelstein... continued
Why Our Brains May be Different
December 27, 2012We share a majority of our genes and abilities with chimps, so what makes us different? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). And here's another provocative question: If the Visitors come from another world, would their laws of... continued