2019-03-01
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What You’ll Eat in the Future
March 9, 2012In the future (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), it's predicted that the population of the world will swell to 2.5 billion--how will we feed them all? Certainly not with the conventional meat-and-potatoes diet that we're used to... continued
The Shut Up Machine
March 9, 2012Ever wish you could "turn off" that annoying cell phone chatter we hear everywhere around us these days? Well maybe you can: Japan has invented a "shut up" machine that painlessly forces people to be quiet. And it's portable! It... continued
What Do Presidents Know About ETs?
March 9, 2012Do US Presidents know a lot more about ETs than they're willing to admit? Retired New Hampshire state representative Henry McElroy Jr., says that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower had 3 meetings with what we call the Visitors at Holloman... continued
More Wildfires on the Way
March 9, 2012In some places, forest fires make up an important part of the natural ecosystem. Wild fires burn is an area of land greater than the country of India every year. Catastrophic wildfires are on the rise in the western United... continued
Doctors Die Differently From You and Me
March 9, 2012Near-death experiencer Dannion Brinkley (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) once said, "In the US, we TORTURE our old people to death." But doctors know this, which is why most of them eschew extreme treatments when they get... continued
Biggest Solar Storm in 5 Years Takes Aim at Earth
March 8, 2012An X-5 solar flare has sent a coronal mass ejection directly toward earth. The CME is now impacting earth's atmosphere, and has the potential to disrupt satellites, unprotected power grids and global positioning systems. While there may not be a... continued
Plants Talk to Each Other
March 7, 2012Sometimes it seems like plants are communicating--but this seems impossible. But biologists now say it's TRUE--we just need to learn their "language." Researchers added the protein luciferase (which makes fireflies glow in the dark) to the DNA of cabbage plants,... continued
New Law Means More Gun Crimes Than Ever
March 7, 2012Congress is passing more laws than ever, and some of them are downright dangerous. For instance, a new study finds that the number of guns that were subsequently linked to crime sold by a single store--a Milwaukee-area gun shop called... continued
Proposed Ban on Internet Whale Meat Sales
March 7, 2012Amazon.com customer Melissa Sehgal has created a petition calling for the world's largest online retailer to permanently ban the sale of whale and dolphin meat on its site. So far it's gotten over 9,000 signatures. A report published by the... continued
How Long Does it Take to Evolve?
March 7, 2012Evolution doesn't happen overnight: large changes in body size take a long time. There have been increases and decreases in mammal size following the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Now biologists estimate that a mouse-to-elephant size change... continued