NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

Source - NASA Science News for May 4, 2011

Today, NASA announced the results of an epic physics experiment which confirms the reality of a space-time vortex around our planet.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04may_epic/

Are We Alone for 06/14/10 - Written in Code

Are We Alone - Written in Code

Genes – what are they good for? Absolutely… something. But not everything. Your “genius” genes need to be turned on – and your environment determines that. Find out how to unleash your inner-Einstein, and what scientists learned from studying the famous physicist’s brain.

Also, the bizarre notion that your children inherit not just your genes, but also the consequences of your habits – smoking, stress, diet, and other behaviors that turn the genes on.

Plus Francis Collins on affordable personal genomes, and a man who decoded his own DNA in under a week.

Guests:

• Francis Collins – Geneticist, Director of the National Institutes of Health
• David Shenk – Journalist, and author of The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
• Stephen Quake – Biophysicist, Stanford University
• Dean Falk – Anthropologist and Senior Scholar at the School For Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Are We Alone for 01/03/10 - Time's Mysteries Part II: Warping Time

Are We Alone - Time's Mysteries Part II: Warping Time

ENCORE: Ever since Einstein, we’ve known that time doesn’t barrel willy-nilly into the future. Moving clocks tick at a different rates, and by riding a fast rocket, we can slow time to a crawl. Such tricks may give you a way to see the distant future, but can you go back in time?

Discover one man’s quest to build a time machine. Also learn how to put the brakes on aging by getting near a black hole.

Plus, does your entire life really pass before your eyes if you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge? Our perception of time.

Guests:

• Roy Gould – Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Ronald Mallett – Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut, and author of The Time Traveller
  
• Simon Steel – Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• David Eagleman – Neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action

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