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New Cure: Zap the Brain

August 3, 2012
Drug research is changing: instead of pills, researchers are concentrating on "bioelectronics" that "zap" the brain into healing the body through electronic signaling. A lot this has to do with implants (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Neurological... continued

Climate Skeptic Recants

August 3, 2012
Sometimes you think you know what's going on, but then discover that reality is completely different. Dr. Richard Mueller, who has been supported by the conservative Koch Brothers on climate change denial, has just announced that he has ceased to... continued

Spy Drones Can Follow You Forever

August 3, 2012
The silent drone that may be tracking you can stay on the job forever. It's like a permanent closed circuit camera, except it's not mounted in the local liquor store but it's following you around. Is there any way to... continued

Learn the Secret of Orenda

August 2, 2012
You may think you've read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN'T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has never been published--until... continued

Cheer Up!

August 2, 2012
Do you dread tomorrow? There are lots of things we can ingest can to cheer us up, and one of these is vitamin D. New research shows that the link between low levels of vitamin D (which we get mainly... continued

Chimp Gestures

August 2, 2012
Biologists have discovered that wild chimpanzees communicate using similar gestures to humans (do they give researchers "the finger?") This will give linguists a clue as to how language evolved among humans. Researcher Anna Roberts has identified 20 to 30 manual... continued

Asteroid Hunting

August 2, 2012
Asteroid impacts are rare, but they can cause incredible harm (look what one did to the dinosaurs!). In 1908, one of them flattened 800 square miles in the Russian countryside. What would have happened if it had hit a major... continued

Think You Know About Aurora Massacre? You Don’t!

August 2, 2012
In a dynamic new Insight, Jerry Mazza reveals that the alleged movie theater killer had ties to DARPA, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the US Dept. of Defense which is responsible for the development... continued

Fertility Drugs Produce Shorter Kids

August 1, 2012
Among children born full term, those conceived with the help of fertility drugs are slightly shorter than naturally conceived children but overall are physically healthy. Researcher Tim Savage says, "Reassuringly, these children remained well within the normal height range for... continued

The Bottom of the Earth is in Trouble Too

August 1, 2012
Greenland isn't the only place where glaciers are in trouble: While the TOP of the Earth is melting, the BOTTOM of the Earth--the Antarctic--is in trouble too. The polar regions are the most sensitive places on Earth to climate change,... continued