Some Fascinating Facts That You Should Know

February 1, 2012

Interview with Pamela Oakes, author of the book Car Care for the Clueless: (...or How To "Make Money" While Maintaining Your Vehicle) (Volume 2)

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Mike Carruthers:
Does it really matter what brand of gasoline you put in your car? Apparently it does.

Pamela Oakes:
A group of automotive manufacturers got together with petroleum companies and said you know for our vehicles to have the best miles per gallon and the least emissions we need the specific formula in our fuel. 
 

January 30, 2012

Interview with Winifred Gallagher, author of the book New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change

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Mike Carruthers:
Unlike any other species on the planet human beings crave novelty and change.

Winifred Gallagher:
We are natures novelty specialists who are primed both biologically and psychologically to engage with the new and different and to adjust to change.
 

January 11, 2012

Interview with Sam Sommers, author of the book Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World

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Mike Carruthers:
We think of people in our lives as having certain set characteristics yet actually the context in which we see them affects everything.

Sam Sommers:
You know seeing your surgeon who’s supposedly this world renowned physician having trouble reading a map or parallel parking – that’s disconcerting to us because we don’t think about this person in these other mundane contexts.
 

December 26, 2011

Interview with Alex S. Key, author of the book The Third Basic Instinct: How Religion Doesn't Get You (Revised Edition)

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Mike Carruthers:
Every creature on the earth has two basic instincts, survival and reproduction and what makes humans different from other creatures is our third basic instinct.

Alex S. Key:
And I propose that the third basic instinct is innate human curiosity - our desire to stimulate our minds, our desire to learn, the instinct to learn.