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Be REALLY Romantic: Name a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach After Your Valentine

February 14, 2012
Valentines Day is upon us and there is no better way to say “forever” than with the gift of a cockroach. The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo is offering you a way to make sure your loved one knows your... continued

Do You Have a Fat PERSONALITY?

February 13, 2012
A new study shows that people with personality traits of high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are likely to go through cycles of gaining and losing weight throughout their lives. Impulsivity was the strongest predictor of who would be overweight, the... continued

Love Makes Our Brains Bigger

February 13, 2012
Mother love is important: School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. As part of a study, the children were closely observed... continued

Internet Dating is Now the Norm

February 13, 2012
Online dating has not only shed its stigma, it has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States other than meeting through friends. According to one industry estimate, social networking attracted 25 million unique users around the world in... continued

New Subscribers Get a Collector’s Item: The Original Key

February 11, 2012
When Whitley published the new, UNCENSORED version of The Key (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) with Tarcher Penguin (which you can get at your local bookstore or from the Whitley Strieber Collection), he had to stop selling... continued

Do You Sleep After Sex?

February 10, 2012
Science is finally studying what happens after sex--sleep or cuddling. It's not that men sleep and women cuddle, it's more subtle than that. A recent study shows that the tendency to fall asleep first after sex is associated with a... continued

A Peek Inside the Neanderthal Mind

February 10, 2012
Since many of us may carry Neanderthal genes, it may be comforting to know what it was like to be one of these ice-age Europeans who flourished between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago, and then mysteriously disappeared. The biggest difference... continued

It’s Now Against the Law to be a Kid

February 10, 2012
More and more US schools have their own police forces. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the cafeteria floor. The state has taken over discipline from the classroom teacher and is... continued

Weeds as a Terrorist Weapon

February 9, 2012
Weed control has become a matter of national security. Along US southern coastal rivers, most particularly Texas' Rio Grande, an invasive species of plant known as giant reed is encroaching on the water, overrunning international border access roads, and creating... continued

Discovery of a Perfect Planet

February 9, 2012
An Earth-like planet recently spotted outside our solar system is the first that atromomers have found that could support liquid water and harbor life. Liquid water is what astronomers look for, and the newly found planet is located at the... continued