This Week:

Intro:

00:02:35 Birthday Herman Webster Mudgett

00:07:55 Porn makes healthy women go blind?

00:17:42 Religion makes your brain shrink?

00:26:20 Paleo diet

00:47:22 Rats given frustose have memory problems

00:51:32 The only gay in the Neolithic village?

00:56:20 Lesbian Catholic High School students hold their own prom

01:02:30 Lightning Round

NASA Renovating the VAB

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/vabrefurbishment_prt.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/05/14/meet-shiri-the-freakishly-realistic-robotic-buttocks/

http://www.godhatesfags.com/schedule.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/everyone-draw-mohammed-day-takes-to-twitter

And the dogs try to make suggestions about how and what to record but we humans cannot understand them because, hey, they're dogs and we do not comprehend their language of panting, licking, barking, and the occassional gassy emission.

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