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Why Humans Read So Well

August 15, 2011

 

Interview with Mark Changizi, author of the book Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Humans have been reading and writing for only a few thousand years a relatively short time in human history and yet we are incredibly good at it.

 

Mark Changizi:
If you were an alien and you watched us every day what humans do, you’d think that we evolved to read because we’re good at it - but we know we couldn’t possibly evolved to read. 
 
Mark Changizi

The Speed Of Life

August 10, 2011

 

Interview with Vincent Poscente, author of the book The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Life seems to be moving at a faster and faster pace and often that increasing speed of life is viewed as a negative.

 

Vincent Poscente:
Speed is vilified - "haste makes waste, slow and steady wins the race" but I don't know how many races people win by going slow.
 
Vincente Poscente

Weird Things That Don't Make Sense

August 5, 2011

 

Interview with Michael Brooks, author of the book 13 things that don't make sense

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Might it just be that we have received communication from aliens? You see there was a signal...

 

Michael Brooks:
This was a signal that was received by a telescope in Ohio in 1977 and it looks exactly like a signal that we were expecting from aliens.
 
Michael Brooks

Is The World Really A Dangerous Place?

July 29, 2011

 

Interview with Daniel Gardner, author of the book The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger

 

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Mike Carruthers:
"We live in a dangerous world" - a lot of people say that but the fact is…

 

Daniel Gardner:
There have been spectacular declines in child mortality rates - historically unprecedented. In fact it's no exaggeration to say we're the healthiest and safest people who ever lived.
 
Daniel Gardner

What Summer Heat Can Do To You

July 25, 2011

 

Interview with Dr. Bruce Kaler, author of the book Owners Manual for Injury Prevention

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Now that we’re in the hot days of summer the heat can be a problem for everyone.

 

Dr. Bruce Kaler:
Mind you some people die from heat related problems and it’s usually the people who failed to recognize these early warning signs and failed to head it off.
 
Dr. Bruce Kaler

Why You Believe What You Believe

July 21, 2011

 

Interview with Michael Shermer, author of the book The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Any political, social or religious view you have had to come from somewhere.

 

Michael Shermer:
The #1 predictor of anybody’s political party or their religious faith is that of their parents – not everybody’s like that there’s intervening variables, if you have high conflict with your parents you’re likely to go the opposite way.
 
Michael Shermer

Medical Myths - Part 2

July 13, 2011

 

Interview with Aaron Carroll, M.D., author of the book Don't Cross Your Eyes...They'll Get Stuck That Way!: And 75 Other Health Myths Debunked

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In a public bathroom which is better to dry your hands a paper towel or the blower?

 

Dr. Aaron Carroll:
There have been some amazing studies that have been done which have compared air dryers to paper towels and all kinds of things. One; they looked at how well they dry and paper does a much better job than the air.
 
Dr. Aaron Carroll

Medical Myths

July 12, 2011

 

Interview with Aaron Carroll, M.D., author of the book Don't Cross Your Eyes...They'll Get Stuck That Way!: And 75 Other Health Myths Debunked

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Remember when your mother told you not to cross your eyes or they’ll get stuck that way? Well mom was wrong.

 

Dr. Aaron Carroll:
Your eyes absolutely won’t get stuck; obviously your eyes are perfectly capable of moving in almost any direction and so whether they’re moving together or not will have no bearing upon whether they stick.
 
Dr. Aaron Carroll

Solutions To Household Problems

July 7, 2011

 

Interview with Jeff May, author of the book Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips: A Workbook for Detecting, Diagnosing, and Eliminating Pesky Pests, Stinky Stenches, Musty Mold, and Other Aggravating Home Problems

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you like to burn candles in your home you should be aware of what happens when you burn "jar candles" - you know the candles that come in the glass jars.

 

Jeff May:
Jar candles produce a lot of soot. If you look at a jar candle at the rim you can see it's all black and that's the soot.
 
Jeff May

The 4th Of July

July 4, 2011

 

Interview with Kate Kelly from AmericaComesAlive.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The 4th of July is when we celebrate the anniversary of our nation’s independence. But on July 4th 1776 we were far from independent yet.

 

Kate Kelly:
What it actually commemorates is the fact that the Continental Congress finalized the Declaration of Independence.  From there we still had to go through a Revolutionary War and also needed to do a Constitution, so we had several more steps to go.
 
Kate Kelly


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