Episode 72 of the Mindcast is up!

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Show Topics:

Booster Shot on CCD - Karl gets in an Aggie article about the disappearing bees, and the Rapture must be taking away the bees! Irradiated hive boxes demonstrate recovery of bees, Varroa mite now in Hawaii, and a new bee virus discovered.

Most Earth-like extra-solar planet discovered, may support liquid water, sounds a lot like Krypton from the Superman comics, and coincidentally “Kryptonite” is discovered… sort of. Now named Jaderite. “The Great Global Warming Swindle” film criticized, and China decides to make it rain before the 2008 Olympics so it won’t rain during the games, first evidence for pre-colonial metal smithing in the Americas, questions about the inheritance of archaic traits in Neanderthals and early humans - were they social equals?

Interview with Dr. Ellis “California” Jones, Sociology professor and author of The Better World Handbook and The Better World Shopping Guide. We talked about making ethical choices with our dollars, and the sociology of science fiction. Ariela also joined us in the studio for the interview.

Theme = Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark by John Williams.