The Shocking Power of the Placebo Effect!
A man attempted suicide by overdosing on a drug he was given in a clinical trial. He was rushed to a hospital in bad shape…shaking, breathing rapidly with a dangerously low pulse, and blood pressure t...
28 Touko 202443min
The Secret Life of Alligators!
Have you heard about Wally the 5-foot-long, 60-pound emotional support alligator? Wally’s owner sleeps with him, walks him on a leash, and even hosts children’s pool parties featuring the supposedly d...
21 Touko 202439min
Your Bad Customer Service was No Accident!
Today’s episode is all about our frustration with customer service… which by anyone’s standards is getting worse and worse! You experience it every time you encounter a phone tree, interact with a cha...
14 Touko 202439min
Free Will Might be an Illusion!
Dr. Robert Sapolsky a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner and professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University has rankled the scientific and philosophic communities by arguing one sim...
7 Touko 202443min
Blunt Truths on Marijuana
The cannabis available today is much, much stronger than the weed grandma was smoking back in her day and the effects on our brains are much more significant than previously thought. Really, no really...
3 Touko 202416min
What’s Driving Public Bad Behavior?
It’s becoming impossible to ignore the epidemic of public incivility. Tirades in supermarkets, performers pelted with projectiles, drunken movie goers brawling, tantrums on airplanes, and of course, t...
30 Huhti 202440min
Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course -What You’re Really Learning!
Harvard is teaching a course on…Taylor Swift? Yes! Harvard University, the one in Cambridge, Massachusetts has a new course about T-Swizzle whose Eras Tour has earned over 1 billion dollars so far. An...
23 Huhti 202441min
CNN’s Richard Quest: Is Airline Safety Declining?
This episode attempts to answer the question… “Are airlines putting dangerous planes into the sky?” Recently, a Boeing 737 Max 9 had a door plug blow out at 16,000 feet, creating a gaping hole that su...
16 Huhti 202442min
