If you’re a student trying to learn something new, stop studying and take a nap–but make sure you dream! (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
Napping after learning something new can help you commit it to memory, and The researchers think that dreams are a sign that unconscious part of the brain is working hard to process the information you just heard.
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Starfire Tor considers whales and dolphins the people of the sea. They are sentient, they are sensitive, they are emotionally complex and have good minds, and they are hunted down and eaten by countries like Japan, Iceland, Norway and others.
In this edition of Dreamland, she issues a call to arms, to completely change the way we look at them, to stop even calling them animals and refer to them instead as the people of the sea, and extend to them the same rights to freedom from interference and the sanctity of life that we extend to each other.
Listen as she tells us about her stirring idea, and how simple–and absolutely free–it is to join the effort to keep countries like Japan from overturning the whaling ban that is now in effect.
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Whitley Strieber reads the exciting prologue to the Omega Point. Get your copy from your local bookstore or anywhere books are sold today!
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Starfire Tor continues with Whitley Strieber talking about the BP oil spill in ways that you have never heard before. Is there a secret submarine that could be deployed to help fix this? And why aren’t more of the world’s highly sophisticated submersibles in action at the site of the break, and what, if anything, is being done about controlling the underwater plumes of oil?
Why is the government so passive, and does it mean anything that the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig took place on Hitler’s Birthday. (It did, and Starfire has her own special thoughts about this.)
You will never hear anything quite like Starfire’s theories about the BP spill, why it is being handled as it is, and what is unfolding behind the scenes.
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