Medical topics: prevention!, brain changes post bariatric surgery, sleep loss (including how this killed Doug's med school softball team) and why breakfast is controversial

Why Algebra II should be banned; Obits: Michael Ansara (with great clip by Bob Scheaffer of CBS), David Frost (and That Was The Week That Was, the breakthrough show he hosted at age 23).

Current Events, the tale of the ill fated "Project Pluto" atomic airplane

Writer Christopher Arns talks about the new guidebook he has produced "Sacramento and the Gold Country" published by Moon Handbooks.

The poor readability of most medical articles; Obituaries: UC Davis's professor of biology Dr Robert Thornton (who's Bio 1 probably made the host a biology major), Virginia Johson of Masters & Johnson fame: also, a look at some bad if traditional medical advice

Current Events; Nora Epron - celebrated writer, lousy reporter, conflicting tales of snotty Swiss retail clerks

Eye surgeon Dr. Gary Aguilar talks about the recently discovered part of the human eye.

Science: Mars has water (dammit), Alpha Centauri's dubious planet (and some really crazy ideas for a spaceship to get to it - assuming its there)

Current Events; more water thievery in the works, the re-discovery of Orson Welles's 'Too Much Johnson' thought lost forever, yet found again

More from "The Wit's Thesaurus", Is memorization going to become obsolete?, Can you seize a car's controls remotely? - a scary question