Who are the Raëlians? Are they members of a new religion? Members of cult? Something else? Today we give an overview of the modern history of UFO religions and take a closer at Claude Vorilhon, aka Raël, and the interesting belief system born out of either a series of alien encounters, or his imagination/plagiarism of ancient astronaut beliefs.

Rambling

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

287 - Raëlism: UFO Sex Cult?

Confirming what dog owners already know, new research shows that dogs really do want to help us when we're sad or upset. Learn how the experiments worked in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/your-dog-really-wants-to-help-when-youre-upset.htm Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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BrainStuff

BrainStuff Classics: Yes, Your Dog Wants to Help When You're Upset

Linda from Ambler, PA has a boyfriend who is a medical doctor AND a cheapskate. We know he's a cheapskate not just because he drives an old Ford Escort Wagon, but Linda says it moans constantly when in motion. Can Tom and Ray save this patient? Check out this episode of the Best of Car Talk for this, more calls and a new puzzler!

The Best of Car Talk

#2221: Calling Dr Cheapskate

From our planet's underwater caves to its ancient soils, there are entire worlds right beneath our feet. This hour, we explore the subterranean forces that shape our lives above the ground. Guests include cave diver Jill Heinerth, death care advocate Katrina Spade, soil scientist Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, and paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim.

TED Radio Hour

What Lies Beneath

Pharma and insurance companies play devious, clever games, competing for dollars. They’re sharks! It’d be fun to track, but they’re eating us alive. If anyone could beat the sharks at this game, we’d pick <a href="http://anomalily.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lillian Karabaic</a>, who runs the personal finance show/community called <a href="https://www.ohmydollar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oh My Dollar!</a> — and is SUPER on-top-of her stuff.  But Lillian recently got socked with an unexpected $3,000 charge— and expects to lose her very-organized fight against it.<img src="https://armandalegshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lillian-Tweet-1-Feb-18.jpg">Understanding how Lillian got here — how pretty much any of us could, and how we can start to fight back, together — means understanding the games these big sharks are playing. Which is exactly what we do in our latest episode, with Lillian’s expert — and often very-funny — guidance.  This episode goes deep on a shark game called a “copay accumulator” policy. In short, they’re an invention by the insurance industry to make sure only YOUR money counts toward your yearly deductible — not any assistance you may receive from a drug company.  One thing we learned: Finding out if your insurance plan even includes one of these policies can be extremely tough: Otherwise, Lillian — who did her extremely-good best to check for this very information — wouldn’t have gotten taken by surprise. We’ve got a little bit of help to offer: Researchers from a nonprofit called The AIDS Institute also researched this question, looking at hundreds of plans across the country. And they developed a tip sheet <a href="https://armandalegshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AIDS_Institute_Tips_for_CAAP_Search.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a tip sheet to help guide their search</a>: How to search online, what questions to ask if the information just isn’t online (which happens).   More resources:<ul><li>For tips on how to avoid overpaying for drugs — when that’s possible — check out the <a href="https://firstaidkit.substack.com/p/avoiding-prescription-drug-ripoffs?s=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">latest edition of our First Aid Kit newsletter</a>.</li><li>There’s a third bunch of sharks involved in this drug-pricing game: Middleman companies called Pharmacy Benefit Managers. If you want to understand the role they play, <a href="https://firstaidkit.substack.com/p/avoiding-prescription-drug-ripoffs?s=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here’s an Arm and a Leg episode about them</a>.</li><li>A dozen states have banned copay accumulators, and more are considering it. This short report includes a <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/copayment-adjustment-programs.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">list of those dozen states</a>. </li></ul> Here’s a <a href="https://armandalegshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Web-transcript_-S7_Ep01_Copay-Accumulators-Mar-7.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">transcript of the episode</a>.  Send your stories and questions: <a href="https://armandalegshow.com/contact/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://armandalegshow.com/contact/</a> or call 724 ARM-N-LEG And of course we’d love for you to <a href="https://armandalegshow.com/match/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">support this show</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Health

An Arm and a Leg

Swimming with sharks

a lot of people have cheated their way to the top in this world. people have fucked over others, or lied to get ahead, and for what? fame they didn’t know what to do with? power but with a terrible conscious? and we’ve all been tempted to do it, me included. but i think there’s something to be said for going about life doing things the right way. maybe you won’t get ahead as fast, but you will eventually, and you’ll be in a much better place when you do get there.
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integrity

Water may have flowed on Mars for a billion more years than was previously thought, giving possible life an extra billion years to thrive.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann

If you hopped in a time machine for a cup of coffee from a 17th-century London coffeehouse, you would probably be a bit disappointed by their stale, bitter brews. We told you the story of how coffee jumped from its native soil in Africa to achieve near-world domination in Grounds for Revolution, the first episode in our two-part series. This episode, tune in for the story behind how new technologies, over-the-top advertising, and a forgotten female coffee visionary helped coffee go from bad, to a little better, to downright terrible, before reaching today’s Nirvana of coffee choice and quality. After all, why is a recipe with just two ingredients so hard to get just right? For the answer, we explore the science of coffee brewing, roasting, and flavor, and meet the people who shaped humanity’s pursuit of the perfect cup. All that plus Frank Sinatra, unicorn Frappuccinos, and a whole latte more in our fresh-brewed episode.
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Food

Gastropod

Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again

Ram Dass joins Alan for a look at the tools that the Bhagavad Gita offers us to face life's challenges head-on.

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Spirituality

Alan Watts Being in the Way

Ep. 11 – Essential Teachings from the Gita w/ Ram Dass & Alan Watts

The Minimalists talk about how much stuff is enough stuff, and how much stuff is too much stuff, and they answer the following questions: How do we avoid apathy when we’re sorting generations of stuff? (02:25) What does “letting go” mean to you? (04:51) When you have too much stuff, how do you determine what to let go and where to send it—yard sale, online consignment, donation center, or, very worst-case scenario, landfill? (08:54) What is The Minimalists’ process for letting go? (10:17) How do we appropriately address a loved one’s consumerism that causes us discomfort? (16:45) Detailed show notes: <a href="http://theminimalists.com/podcast/">minimalists.com/podcast</a> Join The Minimalists Private Podcast: <a href= "http://theminimalists.com/support/">minimalists.com/support</a>

Philosophy

The Minimalists

330 | Too Much Stuff

As The New Yorker’s film critic from 1968 to around 1991, the influential Pauline Kael gave voice to her visceral reactions: she wrote as a moviegoer, not a cineaste. Fifty years ago, in the March 10, 1972, issue, she <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/03/18/alchemy-pauline-kael">wrote</a> about a new film by the hot-shot young director Francis Ford Coppola. “If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art,” Kael wrote, “ ‘The Godfather’ is it.” She noted that Coppola took Mario Puzo’s potboiler of a novel, and the familiar outline of the gangster melodrama, and imbued them with “a new tragic realism,” which reflected a darker view of Americanism in the Watergate era. 
Edie Falco performs an excerpted version of Kael’s review. 
Some of Pauline Kael’s best work for The New Yorker is collected in “The Age of Movies,” published by the Library of America.

Arts

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Pauline Kael on “The Godfather”

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Soothing

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Bedtime Story - Alice in Wonderland

Sipress endured years of rejection before finally landing a gig with The New Yorker in '98. "I wasn't about to let all that rejection get in the way," he says. His new memoir is What's So Funny?

Fresh Air

New Yorker Cartoonist David Sipress

Do you ever stop to wonder if the way you see the world is how the world really is?  Economist Abhijit Banerjee has spent a lifetime asking himself this question. His answer: Our world views often don't reflect reality. The only way to get more accurate is to think like a scientist — even when you're not looking through a microscope.

Psychology

Hidden Brain

Putting Our Assumptions to the Test

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was an excellent feminist despite her limitations as a woman in the 16th century. 

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History

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Catch Up on 1500's Feminist History, Or Catch Some Z's

This episode is brought to you by <a href="http://rupahealth.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rupa Health</a> and <a href="http://paleovalley.com/hyman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paleovalley</a>. Globally, the rate of chronic disease is double the rate of infectious disease. The single most important thing you can do every day to reduce your risk of chronic disease and change your biology is choose the right foods. What you put on the end of your fork matters, as food works with all seven of our body systems for optimal function, and it contains phytochemicals critical to our evolution that helps us achieve optimal health. In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about what foods will help you live longer and how food affects every single body function, and we even answer some questions from our community. Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at<a href="https://rupahealth.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> RupaHealth.com</a>. Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off their entire first order. Just go to<a href="https://paleovalley.com/hyman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> paleovalley.com/hyman</a> to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal. In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): <ul><li>The most important foods for longevity (4:45 / 1:30) </li><li>How food affects all the systems in your body (10:09 / 6:35) </li><li>The astounding amount of chronic disease and death attributed to food and diet (19:14 / 15:41) </li><li>Why the conventional medicine approach overlooks nutrition (21:42 / 18:03) </li><li>Questions from my community on bitter foods and avoiding cancer (30:19 / 26:53) </li></ul> Mentioned in this episode:<a href="https://drhyman.com/foodasmedicine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Food As Medicine PDF</a><a href="https://drhyman.com/shoppingguide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shopping Guide</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nourishment-Animals-Rediscovering-Nutritional-Wisdom/dp/1603588027" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nourishment by Fred Provenza</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Dr. Hyman Show

How To Use Food As Medicine

Collin Morikawa returns to the pod for the first time since the pandemic began to recap the last two years which have seen him claim his first two major championships. We get into his wins, improvements in putting, equipment, learning from Tiger, recent developments on tour and a ton more.
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Sports

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

NLU Podcast, Episode 526: Collin Morikawa

This was recorded while walking on the McCloud River Trail beneath the full moon in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Siskiyou County, California. The McCloud River Trail winds along the McCloud River and passes three creatively named yet nonetheless beautiful waterfalls, Upper, Middle, and Lower, the largest being Middle Fall at over fifty feet tall and one hundred feet wide. This recording takes you down the trail from just above Upper Fall, to below Middle Fall.  Sound By Nature is produced by me with the generous support of listeners like you. If you enjoy these recordings and value natural sound recorded on location with no advertising, which have been gathered mindfully with respect for nature, perhaps you would like to support the podcast as well. Can you help me provide you with these recordings by becoming a supporter? Your support will be used to help me continue giving you ad free natural sounds. I hope that if it is within your means you will consider becoming a supporter. To those of you that are already supporting the podcast, thank you so much. Your support has helped me acquire new equipment, which is hopefully improving your listening experience.  If you have any questions, comments, or criticisms(hopefully constructive), please e-mail me at soundbynaturepodcast@gmail.com. And please visit the Facebook page for the podcast, which I have started updating again, and like it while your there. You can find it by searching for Sound By Nature. Thanks! Please vote. Please vote. Please vote. Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soundbynature/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soundbynature/support</a>

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Sound By Nature

Episode 53: McCloud River Trail- From Upper to Middle Fall under the Full Moon

There's nothing better than finishing an incredible and realizing that you only have one pan to clean, so this week we're featuring a recipe from Anna Jones' book, One: Pot, Pan, Planet that uses minimal energy to make maximum flavor.

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