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William Henry interviews Andrew Collins about his search for lost civilizations. As we get closer to a real understanding of the human past, people like Andrew Collins are making mind-opening strides. From the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian “Island of the Egg” to the growing understanding of the effect of cosmic rays on the human mind, William Henry and Andrew Collins take us on a crucially important journey.

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Will there ever be a cure for AIDS? A British man may be the first person to recover after testing positive for HIV. A year later, the virus seems to have completely left his body. 25-year-old patient Andrew Stimpson says, “My doctor came into the room and kept saying, ‘You’ve cured yourself, you’re fantastic.’ There was massive relief, but I was also deeply confused. And the doctors seemed to be as confused as me.”

AIDs researcher Lisa Power says, “I have never heard of this happening before?Nobody has ever been proved to have spontaneously cleared themselves of HIV.”
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The US and Russia used to be considered the two superpowers. Then Europe formed a union and Russia broke apart, and now India and China are poised to be the superpowers of the future. The Worldwatch Institute says that the rise of these two countries represents one of the gravest threats?and greatest opportunities?facing the world today.

The choices these countries make in the next few years in business, oil consumption, politics, pollution protection and agriculture will effect the rest of the world?for good or for ill.
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When we think of extinction events, we usually think about the asteroid that hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. But it turns out the worst extinction since that happened 65 million years ago is going on right now?and we humans are the cause of it.

Robert Roy Britt writes in LiveScience.com that changes to the earth’s biodiversity have happened faster in the past 50 years than at any time in human history. Today, over 16,000 entire species face extinction in the near future.
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