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There is No Oil Shortage

April 5, 2012
So why are gas prices so high? High international oil prices are bad news for everyone--even for oil-producing countries. People who have to pay $4 for a gallon of gas don't have money to spend on other things, and eventually... continued

Why Our Immigrants are Dying

April 4, 2012
One of the reasons some people are anti-immigration has to do with worry about paying for their health care. But the irony is this: The longer minority immigrants stay in the US, the higher their risk of experiencing poor health.... continued

QUIET!

April 4, 2012
At our Dreamland Festival in May, one of the main things we're going to investigate are the mysterious sounds that are being heard all around the world (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show and they get 10% off... continued

What You Can’t Say in School

April 4, 2012
One would assume this refers to cussing or name-calling, but that's not it: ordinary words such as "dance," "dinosaurs," "birthday," "Halloween," "divorce," and have been banned from standardized tests in New York City, lest they offend certain religious groups. In... continued

Here Comes Trouble!

April 3, 2012
Do you make decisions quickly based on incomplete information? Do you often lose your temper? Are you easily bored? Is your desk a mess? In the February 14th edition of the New York Times, John Tierney writes: "Those are the... continued

Plants Remember the Dry Days

April 3, 2012
When plants talk to each other, what do they say? Some of them compare notes on how to survive a drought and plants that have been subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks... continued

We’re Reaching the Tipping Point on Climate

April 3, 2012
We recently reported that changes in the Arctic could halt the Gulf Stream--maybe changing our climate permanently. Now climatologists are warning us that the world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter. We have only... continued

Discovery of a Water Planet

April 2, 2012
The most common type of star in the Milky Way is called a red dwarf--these are smaller, cooler, and longer-lived than our sun. There are 160 BILLION of them in our galaxy and 40% of them have Earth-like planets orbiting... continued

Faster Than Light Speed? Slow Down!

April 2, 2012
When a group of physicists who called themselves "Opera" announced in September that a group of subatomic particles called neutrinos had traveled faster than the speed of light, many physicists assumed something had gone wrong with the experiment, since it... continued

You’re More Likely to Die if You Take Sleeping Pills

March 30, 2012
Some foods can kill you, and it turns out that a good night's sleep can do it too--IF you use sleeping pills. According to a recent study, patients taking prescription sleep aids on a regular basis were nearly five times... continued