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In our new Insight, Whitley writes, “We live in an increasingly polarized society. Much of the media is also polarized. Talk radio is overwhelmingly dominated by fringe elements of the far right. Now there is a new far left network starting up. There is, however, no network that serves the vast American center, which still dominates our political life to a much greater extent than either extreme would like us to believe?The media is so polarizing our country that the center is now coming to seem more radical than the extremes. ‘You’re with us or you’re against us’ is the modern byword. But that isn’t America. No indeed, America is about balance, not consensus.” Also check out his new Journal, and find out why Whitley thinks we’re on the Razor?s Edge.

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Scientists have discovered that plants, like animals, have a 24-hour biological clock. Just as our body clock tells us to wake up, plants have clocks that tell them to prepare for the sun. Plant clocks are set to go off around the same time every morning, usually just a few hours before noon. This tells them to prepare for intense sunlight, triggering photosynthesis, the process that help plants make food.
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Black holes may enable us to travel to different universes. Physicist Lior Burko says travel through a black hole is theoretically possible, despite the fact that most scientists think the holes would destroy a spacecraft. But Burko says not all black holes are alike.

Black holes are invisible pits of gravity that have no surface, but instead have a spherical “event horizon,” which can be several miles across. Once inside them, light and matter can’t escape, which is why black holes are invisible. At the center of a black hole is a point called a singularity, where matter is crushed to infinite density, making these holes incredibly heavy.
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You may be a vegetarian, but your ancestors not only ate meat, they occasionally ate each other. Cannibalism was common among our prehistoric ancestors, according to a new study of the Fore, an isolated tribe living in Papua New Guinea. Researchers Simon Mead and John Collinge found DNA evidence that a gene variant protected some of the Fore against a deadly prion disease related to Mad Cow Disease, that’s transmitted by cannibalism. The Fore used to practice cannibalism, but don’t anymore. Next they found that this protective gene variant is present in people all over the world, leading them to conclude that it evolved when cannibalism was widespread, in order to give protection from prion diseases.read more