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Your Next Teacher May Be a Mind-Reading Robot

June 29, 2012
AND despite being a machine, the robot may even be a BETTER teacher--NO WONDER machines are taking over our jobs! (NOTE: Subscribers have a coupon that gets you a beautiful, hardcover copy of hardcover copy of Whitley Strieber's wonderful novel... continued

Penguin Depravity

June 29, 2012
Animals misbehave at times. Is "penguin depravity" as bad as "panda porn?" How about human sexual variations? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). The handwritten notebook of George Murray Levick, who was a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott... continued

Poll Says Obama Best if Aliens Invade

June 29, 2012
A recent National Geographic poll says that the public believes that Obama would be more effective at dealing with an alien invasion than Romney. Whitley Strieber says, "They are all entirely unprepared. Any President would have to play catch-up, and... continued

How to Tell if You’re Depressed

June 28, 2012
Check your internet usage. Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications--from games to file downloads to chat rooms? Yep, you're depressed, all right. In the June 16th edition of the New... continued

The End of Hummers?

June 28, 2012
It's hard to believe, but true: the demise of a tall, willowy plant called the glacier lily, that grows in mountain meadows throughout western North America, could mean the end of hummingbirds. It flowers early in spring, when the first... continued

An End to the Controversy: There IS Water on Mars

June 28, 2012
A new study leads researchers to conclude that there is an extensive amount of water in the interior of Mars, a conclusion that is very different from earlier speculations. Astronomers discovered this by analyzing meteorites that originated from the surface... continued

Hotel Hygiene–How Clean is That Room?

June 27, 2012
Think your desk is filthy? What about your hotel room? We all hope the room we rent is clean and hygienic, but we have no way of knowing how clean it really is. If recommended NASA cleaning standards are adopted... continued

Russians Accused of Raining on Protest Parade

June 27, 2012
A member of the Russian parliament accused the Kremlin of using chemicals to induce the torrential downpours that soaked tens of thousands of demonstrators at an anti-Putin demonstration, causing them to disband more than an hour before the protest was... continued

Is That Fukushima Debris Dangerous?

June 27, 2012
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping almost a thousand tons per DAY of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean. Will the Pacific ocean dilute this enough so that it's harmless once it reaches our shores? And... continued

We are What We Wear

June 26, 2012
Women are often thought of as frivolous because of their obsession with fashion, but there's a sound psychological basis for this: It turns out that if you wear a white coat that you believe belongs to a doctor, your ability... continued