Sometimes cures are discovered by accident, as when one medicine not only helps cure the disease it was designed for, but turns out to cure another condition as well. The hair restoring drug Rogaine was one of these–when it was administered to heart patients, they all began to grow (and regrow) hair. Now a cancer drug designed to kill colon cancer cells seems to cause weight loss (in mice, anyway).
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New research shows that The higher up in latitude you live, the bigger your brain AND eyeballs will be. But does this mean that people who live in these regions are better thinkers? Relatively few innovations have come from people living in these parts of the world, but this may be because the populations of polar countries have always been relatively sparse.
Their brains may be bigger simply to help them cope with the cold. And what about the eyeballs? There’s less oxygen available at higher altitudes. Many high altitude areas are cold and thus snowy. It turns out that people need to see better in places that receive less light than areas that closer to the equator.
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For Halloween, Anne Strieber tells some of the greatest ghost stories you will ever hear. She starts out, "Whitley and I often see ghosts…" and it goes from there, as we listen to a whole series of ghostly encounters and encounters with the dead that Whitley and Anne Strieber have had over the years. This wonderful Halloween special offers great insight not only into the highly unusual lives of Whitley and Anne Strieber, but also into the whole nature of ghosts and apparitions. Not to be missed!
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Whitley Strieber sat down, leaned into the microphone and told this story without so much as a note. Is it an incredibly scary and yet beautiful short story, a prophecy, the revelation of an extraordinary secret–or all of the above? When your Dreamland editor asked him, he just laughed. Whatever it is, it’s an all time classic Halloween Screamland, in the finest tradition of this radio program!
"Darkness Absolute" by Whitley Strieber is Copyright 2011 by Walker & Collier, Inc.