Be a SPY with your Smartphone

August 11, 2011
Spies are everywhere these days (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) and their new tools--Smartphone cameras connected to social media networks--give them more power than ever. The OLD spies--in places like the Soviet Union and East Germany--would have... continued

Bin-Laden Killing: Everything We Were Told is a Lie

August 11, 2011
When our brave Navy SEALS captured Osama bin-Laden, who turned out to be hidden in plain sight in the vicinity of a military academy in Pakistan, many of us in the US began to wonder if Pakistan is really a... continued

Your Next Big Vacation Adventure

August 11, 2011
No, it's not Chernobyl, although the Ukraine is encouraging tourism there. Private companies are poised to take over space travel and now the newest thing in travel thrills is private submarines, which are heading for the abysmal deep, where the... continued

Why an NFL Player Killed Himself but Saved his Brain

August 10, 2011
Retired NFL player Dave Duerson had endured so much pain that he killed himself--but he did it in such a way that he could will his brain to medical science so it could be studied in order to find out... continued

China is Becoming Dangerous

August 10, 2011
Is China a friend or an enemy of the US? This is a country that can be dangerous--and not just because of the adulterated food and fake medicine they export. It turns out they are undertaking a massive spy operation... continued

Baseball is a Game Filled with Pranks

August 10, 2011
As the baseball season winds down, it's worth looking at the kinds of pranks that players play on each other. One prank that's been done is loading up an orange with shots of an oral numbing ointment and waiting for... continued

There’s a Spy in Granny’s Slippers

August 9, 2011
Engineers who work for giant telecommunications companies or small start-ups are inventing products that can send messages--from a diaper that lets parents know their baby needs changing, to slippers that can tell when your grandmother might be about to fall... continued

How Past Tragedies Can Predict the Present

August 9, 2011
Past nuclear disasters can give us a clue about what may happen to the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan. One of these is Chernobyl, where the same thing happened 25 years ago. Another is in Japan,... continued

Vote for the Candidate Who Seems the Most Depressed

August 9, 2011
Can depression be good for you--or make you more creative? Or is the whole depression thing a big hoax? It's been discovered that some of our greatest leaders were severely depressed people. We can understand why people become depressed AFTER... continued

Scientists Gossip About God

August 8, 2011
People do it, birds do it, and now quantum physicists do it: Gossip. Right now there are TWO competing particle accelerators smashing together subatomic particles--CERN (the Large Hadron Collider, which started operating outside Geneva) and the less well-known Tevatron, at... continued