Is one of your resolutions (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) for 2013 to lose weight? If so, one of your main problems is probably sweets–why do we crave them, and what can we do about this? (NOTE: Anne Strieber’s diet book, now reduced to $3 from $5, has some good advice about this).
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If we encountered alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was? Technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear miraculous, just as an airplane or TV set would seem miraculous to prehistoric man.
Astrobiologist Paul Davis thinks that advanced technology might not even be made of matter, that it might have no size, shape or boundaries. It may not appear to do anything at all that we can figure out.
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In the wake of the recent Connecticut elementary school massacre–as well as similar massacres in the US over the years–some people are wondering if violence is in our genetic makeup or if it resides in our culture (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this talk). Since we share over 90% of our genes with chimpanzees, primatologists are studying animal violence in order to try to answer this question.
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Whitley Strieber tells me, "on a couple of occasions, we saw translucent figures at our old cabin in upstate New York." There is no obvious reason to doubt this photograph, but, as the experts mentioned in the story say, it’s impossible to be certain.
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