I’m taking it easy today, preparing for a minor surgery tomorrow. (Yes, I got cataracts, no, I am not yet an old fart.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q1gksqqhLU&NR=1
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There’s an old saying: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." I experienced this recently when Whitley had cataract surgery in one eye. He was having terrific trouble driving at night, and I suspect this is why he got the warning dream from his dead little dog Candy when we were in the UK.
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The man who allegedly shot Representative Gabby Giffords is undoubtedly a psychopath–someone who is unable to put himself in another person’s shoes. Neurologists have found that people diagnosed as psychopathic have difficulty showing empathy, just like patients who have suffered frontal head injury of the type that affects football players. Does this mean we may find a way to "cure" these manmade monsters?
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Scientists think we live in a "multiverse" consisting of an infinite number of parallel universes (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows). Researchers have discovered four circular patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that could be "bruises" that our universe has incurred from being bumped four times by other universes.read more