2019-03-01
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Be a SPY with your Smartphone
August 11, 2011Spies 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, 2011When 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, 2011No, 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, 2011Retired 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, 2011Is 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, 2011As 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, 2011Engineers 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, 2011Past 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, 2011Can 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, 2011People 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