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What Ever Happened to the Flying Car?
April 23, 2012We've seen it in comic strips and graphic novels, but it never appears in auto shows. But it turns out that more than a dozen flying cars are in development, and Terrafugia, a firm based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is about... continued
Fish Still Deformed from BP OIl Spill
April 23, 2012Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexio--in the worst offshore spill in US history--deformed fish and eyeless shrimp are still being found (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows). The release of... continued
What Caused the Legend of Noah’s Ark?
April 20, 2012A worldwide flood that took place 14,600 years ago is almost certainly the origin of some of the oldest of all human stories, the flood tales of Native America, the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and Noah's Flood. Scientists now know... continued
Alien Dinosaurs on Other Worlds?
April 20, 2012Most scientists think that insects will take over from humans in the future, but what would have happened if dinosaurs hadn't died off? These giant lizards may have survived and evolved high intelligence on other planets, which would explain the... continued
Life on Mars? The Answer is Probably Yes
April 20, 2012It now appears almost certain that the Viking Lander's life experiment succeeded, and that there is life on Mars. However, NASA interpreted the results too conservatively, and the chance to direct exploration of Mars toward the discovery of life was... continued
Whitley and Anne at Los Angeles Book Festival on Sat., April 21
April 19, 2012The Festival is held at the University of Southern California (USC) campus and tickets are free! They will be signing books from 1-1:45 in booth #372 and on a panel at 3:30. To find out more about the Festival, click... continued
Bilinguals are Smarter
April 19, 2012If you speak two or more languages, it's not just handy for traveling, it actually makes you smarter. In the March 18th edition of the New York Times, Yudhijit Battacharjee writes: "There is ample evidence that in a bilingual's brain... continued
What if We Invent a Machine to REMOVE Carbon Dioxide?
April 19, 2012A climate change prediction that Whitley Strieber used as research for his book Nature's End thirty years ago has proved to be not only accurate, but to have understated the intensity of global warming by 30%. Global warming has, sadly,... continued
Ants May Help Us Understand ETs
April 19, 2012The biologist Edward O. Wilson has made a protracted study of the behavior of ants, as a way of understanding human culture. Since Whitley (and other contactees) often report that "the grays" seem hive-like, it may shine a light on... continued
Commonly Used Fertilizer May Lead to Breast Cancer
April 18, 2012Not everything is happy down on the farm. Weed killers are killing us and some of the pesticides used on crops can prevent breast feeding and dietary cadmium, a toxic metal found in many farm fertilizers, may lead to an... continued