Popular Dreamland co-host William Henry will be on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory on Wednesday, Dec. 20, starting at 10 pm Pacific time. Our chats with William have been a huge success–don’t miss his conversation with George!
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Our War on Drugs is getting to seem more and more futile, especially since it has reached the point where marijuana is America’s most valuable cash crop, worth more to farmers than wheat and corn combined, despite the fact that both of those crops are heavily subsidized.
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Scientists who have studied primates in the wild have learned that yawning is “catching.” Now researchers think that laughter is catching too.
In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson quotes neuroscientist Sophie Scott as saying, “We’ve known for some time that when we are talking to someone, we often mirror their behavior, copying the words they use and mimicking their gestures. Now we?ve shown that the same appears to apply to laughter, too?at least at the level of the brain.”
Scott played a series of sounds?both positive and negative?to volunteers and measured their brain responses. All of them triggered responses in the part of the brain that prepares the muscles in the face to move in a certain way, depending on how the sound is interpreted.
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I’ve written diaries about my impressions upon seeing Fahrenheit 911 and about (not) seeing The DaVinci Code. I recently saw Mel Gibson’s controversial film Apocalypto, and I wanted to share my thoughts about that as well. I saw something so obvious in it, that I couldn’t believe that no critic mentioned it, something that DOESN’T have to do with the ancient Mayans!
Most of the reviews stress how graphically violent this film is. I did not find this a problem (and I’m someone who had to leave “Saving Private Ryan”). I did not find the subtitles a problem either; in fact, I think they are what “saves” the film, since it has a rather pedestrian plot.
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