After eating that big turkey dinner, you’re probably feeling fat, and most of us are fat and getting fatter–why is this? Most people would say it’s because we eat too much and exercise too little. But that answer, while valid, may be a little too simple–there may be many other causes for obesity.
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At 18 hospital emergency rooms here and in the UK, researchers have put pictures on the ceilings to test whether patients who are brought back to life after cardiac arrest can remember seeing the them during an NDE–an out-of-body experience. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). In the Wall Street Journal, Melinda Beck quotes critical care physician Sam Parnia as saying, "We’ve added these images as objective markers." People who experience NDEs remember leaving their bodies and watching themselves from above.read more

The one thing that is not being made clear about WikiLeaks is how they are getting the files that they are releasing. How in the world could a supposedly small group like that obtain 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables? Where did they come from? Who released them and how? I know enough about our security systems to know that, since 911, classified documents have been well protected. Something is deeply wrong somewhere and, as usual, the public isn’t being told.
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