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How Cat Colors Affect YOUR Genes

October 2, 2012
Figuring out how cat coloration comes about could help scientists understand our immune system's resistance to infectious diseases. On NPR.com, Joe Palca quotes researcher Stephen O'Brien as saying that they're trying to explain why "some cats are spotted, some cats... continued

Arctic Melt Good News for Business

October 2, 2012
For the last 60 years, the Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the Earth, and some Asians business people are taking advantage of this fact. The thawing at the top of the globe gives access to... continued

Twitter Can Detect Psychopaths

October 1, 2012
So if you're corresponding with someone online who uses certain words and phrases, cut off the contact--FAST! There are more of these folks around than you might suspect. This might also be something to pay attention to when you evaluate... continued

Junk Food Can Destroy Your Brain

October 1, 2012
Here's a scary new theory about Alzheimer's disease--it may be at least partly caused by eating "junk food." We now know that process food fumes can be dangerous to breathe, and here's further evidence that it's dangerous to eat as... continued

Secret Spray

October 1, 2012
A team of investigative reporters has discovered that the government sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide on thousands of unsuspecting citizens who lived in a St. Louis housing project during the 1950s and 60s. While the Army admits it added a florescent... continued

Your Treasure May Not be Real

September 28, 2012
Most of us have already figured out that our money isn't real (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Manhattan gold merchant Ibrahim Fadl discovered this we he found that several 10-ounce gold bars, normally worth around $100,000, were... continued

Lose Those Tatts!

September 28, 2012
Is your tattoo a time bomb that you now want removed? Tatts are usually removed with a laser (the light from the laser helps the pigments in the tattoo ink the ink break down and eventually "float away" via the... continued

Star Trek Travel May be Possible

September 28, 2012
It may turn out to be possible to actually build a warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel (the way people traveled in TV's Star Trek). A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a... continued

Great Artists From the Past Were Not Yet Human

September 27, 2012
The wonderful prehistoric cave paintings found in Europe were not made by humans--not by modern humans, anyway. A new way of determining the age of some of those paintings reveals that they were made by Neanderthals (NOTE: Subscribers can still... continued

Magic Mushrooms

September 27, 2012
You can do more with mushrooms than just ingest them (especially the magic ones that make you "high" (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show, which is one of the pieces to Anne Strieber's "Green Man" revelation and subsequent... continued