2019-03-01
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Star Trek Travel by Tractor Beam
February 1, 2013Teleportation may be on its way. New technology utilizes a beam of light to attract objects (you and me?). Instead of boarding a plane, we'd pay to have someone at our destination turn on a gigantic lamp. A real-life "tractor... continued
Jocks Smarter Than Bookworms (At Some Things, Anyway)
February 1, 2013We don't know about football players, but English Premier League soccer players, NHL hockey players, France's Top 14 club rugby players, and even elite amateur athletes have better developed cognitive functions than the average university student. Optometrist Jocelyn Faubert studied... continued
Can We Predict Quakes Like We Can Predict the Weather?
January 31, 2013People have been trying to predict earthquakes (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) for thousands of years. Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth.... continued
Fat and Happy
January 31, 2013Are you fat and happy? (If you're NOT happy about being fat, you need Anne Strieber's famous diet book!) Scientists have discovered that the major genetic contributor to obesity is also associated with an 8% reduction in depression. In other... continued
You Could be Allergic to Your Cell Phone
January 31, 2013There are lots of reasons that cell phones can be dangerous, but here's one you never thought of: You can be allergic to them! Many of us are "allergic" to hearing so many inane cell phone conversations going on all... continued
The Real Cost of Jail
January 30, 2013It's sometimes hard to determine the REAL cost of things. The United States has the world's highest rate of jail incarceration, perhaps because the private the private prisons springing up across the country provide local jobs. But if the prison... continued
If Your Self-propelled Car Gets in a Wreck
January 30, 2013Who gets the blame? Fully driverless cars are years away, but car manufacturers think they'll be in showrooms by 2020, and insurance agencies and lawyers want to be prepared. So far, only California, Nevada and Florida have passed laws about... continued
Teleportation: One Step Closer
January 30, 2013For the last ten years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of "entanglement" may hold the key to eventual teleportation of quantum information--and human beings? Once considered impossible, in... continued
We’re Mutating!
January 29, 2013At least our genes are. The Nature website reports that establishing the age of each mutation in contemporary human populations is important to fully understand our evolutionary history and will help to us to develop new medicines for diseases caused... continued
How the Internet Changes Your Brain
January 29, 2013Lots of things change our brains (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). We know that reading changes the brain--according to the language you read. Does using the internet change your brain as well? If so, then people in... continued