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There’s a ad on TV that claims that the oldest trees produce the sweetest fruit. I grew up on an orchard, and I know that this is wrong. The oldest trees produce the sourest fruit. At 89, Harper Lee has proved the truth of this in her new book, Go Set a Watchman. In it, one of America’s greatest fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, is portrayed as a segregationist. Worse, the story is set years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird, suggesting that he has acquired has prejudice as he has grown older and, sadly, less wise.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee says that it’s a sin to kill one. Well, that’s just what she’s done by mistakenly publishing this text, which should certainly have remained in the safety deposit box where it was found.
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A research team has taken the application of brain-machine interfaces one step further–and successfully managed to network the brains of groups of animals, into what they call a "brainet". So, what does this mean to you? Just this: if, in the future, you could join a hive mind, you’d be a lot smarter…but also–well–a lot less alone.
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THERE ARE SECRETS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. Then there are secrets hidden just plain out of sight.

What can one person do with knowledge of ancient Egypt, skills with a GPS and contacts to get a high resolution satellite-based scan done? A scan, by the way, that is so sophisticated it can go 6 kilometers into the earth and see what is out of sight.

Well, if you are Dr. Carmen Boulter, you might just use it to solve a 2,500 year old mystery. Not just any mystery. One of the greatest mysteries in all of human history.
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What is thought? What is time? Who are we? Why is there a striking contrast between the Western mind and the First Peoples mind asking these same questions? We’ll discuss it with Lakota activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse before delving into the deeper reality of Mother Earth. Star Nations, and what it means to be common.

To learn more about Tiokasin, please visit: www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org

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