Disgusting But Fascinating
Gross and disgusting things are fascinating to Valerie Curtis. She's a "disgustologist" who joined me on America weekend to discuss her book, "Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion." We talked about how being disgusted has helped us evolve...
The Uselessness of Food Expiration Dates
You go to the refrigerator for milk and notice that the date stamped on the bottle was yesterday. Do you drink it, or throw it away? Most people do the latter, which leads to far too much food being wasted, because those dates on the labels don't mean anything. That's...
Homeopathic Exploitation
After reading Susan Perry's MinnPost column about how homeopaths are exploiting the world's most vulnerable people, I invited her onto my America Weekend show to explain why spreading such pseudo-science and non-medicine to the developing world is harmful. She talked...
Heisenberg’s Favorite Podcast
Before you watch the "Breaking Bad" series finale tomorrow night, check out my interview with the show's science adviser, Donna Nelson (as heard last month on my America Weekend show). While we're on the subject, here's the animated version of Badger's Star Trek...
Everything Causes Cancer
It seems like every week, there's a report about something else we eat that causes cancer. But Dr. Steven Novella of Science Based Medicine, explained on my America Weekend show that while it seems like everything causes cancer, it turns out that very little of it...
NASA’s Flying Frog
If you look carefully at this official NASA photo, you'll see the LADEE spacecraft launching on its way to the moon last Friday -- plus a frog that's a lot further off the Earth than it ever expected to be. For a larger image, and an explanation of how it happened,...
Golden Rice
You've heard of white rice, brown rice, and long grain and wild rice. But you may not have heard of Golden Rice. It's the brainchild of some scientists who recognized a problem and used genetics to try to solve it. They recognized that in many rice-eating cultures in...
Michael Mann, Climate Change Expert
Today on KTRS, I continued the conversation I began a few weeks ago with Michael Mann, one of the world's leading climate researchers. Since he began publicly warning about the Earth's rising temperatures and the effects of climate change 15 years ago, he and his...