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Mat Roy Of Nat Geo WILD’s Fish Tank Kings chats with Dr. Alvin

Mat Roy 2 Mat Roy heads the dynamic “school” of aquarium specialists at Living Color in southern Florida are experts at fulfilling the wild aquatic requests of their fish-loving clientele. Last season they made a “splash” transforming a Volkswagen Minibus into an aquarium and building a fireplace around a fish tank. This spring, Nat Geo WILD “hooks up” once again with the Fish Tank Kings for an all-new season of custom-built tanks that seem to defy imagination. The new season of Fish Tank Kings premieres Monday, April 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Nat Geo WILD.

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CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Medical Marijuana chats with Dr. Alvin

01 Sanjay Gupta Click Here To Listen Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN has spent the past two years working and researching medical marijuana. Recently he wrote an editorial changing his personal opinion on it. His documentaries and editorials have received enormous attention and praise. Even politician, including Harry Reid said the film influenced them in reexamining the issue.

By |April 24th, 2014|Law, Medical, Politics, Science|Comments Off on CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Medical Marijuana chats with Dr. Alvin
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I Can Hear You Whisper by Lydia Denworth chats with Dr. Alvin

Lydia Denworth Click Here To Listen A mother notices her toddler is not learning to talk the way his brothers did… Is something wrong?  Her search for answers is a journey into the mysteries of the human brain. Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Her sweet boy with the big brown eyes had probably never heard her lullabies. Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: Deprivation.  How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound most of us take for granted? How would he communicate?  Would he learn to [...]

By |April 23rd, 2014|Children, Medical, Science|Comments Off on I Can Hear You Whisper by Lydia Denworth chats with Dr. Alvin
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Chicken Soup For The Soul: Living With Alzheimer by Amy Newmark chats with Dr. Alvin

Amy Newmark Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia? You are not alone. With 101 encouraging and inspiring stories by others like you, this book is a source of support and encouragement throughout your caregiving journey.

By |April 22nd, 2014|Health, Medical, Science|Comments Off on Chicken Soup For The Soul: Living With Alzheimer by Amy Newmark chats with Dr. Alvin
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Itch Rocks by Simon Mayo chats with Dr. Alvin

Simon Mayo-Itch Rocks Click Here To Listen Live From England. Itchingham Lofte is back—and now he's the most protected boy in the world! After narrowly escaping the thugs from Greencorps and disposing of element 126, Itch and his family live under constant surveillance by England's famed MI5. But even these top agents may not be able to help him when enemies old and new scheme to get their hands on the super-radioactive rocks—even if they have to kill Itch to do it. Filled with danger, thrills, and some shocking surprises, this suspenseful sequel is every bit as exciting as the first!

By |April 22nd, 2014|Children, Fiction, Science|Comments Off on Itch Rocks by Simon Mayo chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Pescetarian Diet by Janis Jibrin

Janis Jibrin Click Here To Listen You can go vegetarian to slim down, help reduce your risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease, feel great, and probably live longer. Or you can eat fish to help protect your heart, quell appetite, stay sharp, be happier, and even have better skin. (You read that right!) Better yet, you can enjoy the best of both worlds with The Pescetarian Plan—a delicious, easy-to-follow, one-of-a-kind program for weight loss and optimal physical and mental well-being. Inspired by the traditional Mediterranean way of eating (“pesce” is the Italian word for “fish,” and “pesca” is Spanish for “fishing,” thus the alternate spelling “pescatarian”), veteran nutritionist Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., offers step-by-step portion- [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Diet, Fitness, Medical, Science|Comments Off on The Pescetarian Diet by Janis Jibrin
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The Owner’s Manual For The Brain by Dr. Pierce J. Howard

Pierce Howard Click Here To Listen Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Medical, Science|Comments Off on The Owner’s Manual For The Brain by Dr. Pierce J. Howard
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Vampires Are Us by Margot Adler

Margot Adler Click Here To Listen In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, "Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury." As Adler, a longtime NPR correspondent and question asker, sat vigil at her dying husband's bedside, she found herself newly drawn to vampire novels and their explorations of mortality. Over the next four [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Entertainment, Fiction, Science|Comments Off on Vampires Are Us by Margot Adler
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The Griffin & The Dinosaur by Marc Aronson

Marc Aronson-Griffin Click Here To Listen Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen.

By |April 19th, 2014|Children, Fiction, Science|Comments Off on The Griffin & The Dinosaur by Marc Aronson
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Missing Microbes by Dr. Martin J. Blaser

Martin Glaser Click Here To Listen Tracing one scientist’s journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now, this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances—antibiotics—threatening [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Medical, Science|Comments Off on Missing Microbes by Dr. Martin J. Blaser
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