Episode #158

http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/index.htmBanachek is a premiere mentalist and scourge of those who would use mentalism to fake ‘psychic’ powers. He discusses his experiences as a mentalist, as a subject of the Alpha Project where he fooled scientists into thinking he had real powers, and his history with Uri Geller.

Item #1 Fiction
A new report warns travelers to the Beijing Olympics that the most common illnesses contracted by visitors are malaria and dengue fever.
Item #2 Science
New research shows that free radicals are used to signal satiety in the brain, suggesting that anti-oxidants may increase appetite.
Item #3 Science
NASA’s Cassini probe has confirmed for the first time surface liquid on a body other than earth – an ethane lake on the surface of Titan.

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” – Henri Poincaré