SCIENTISTS AT Cambridge and Cal Tech announced this week that they’ve created synthetic human embryos without the use of eggs or sperm. They say this could help research into genetic disorders; we wonder if there’s another agenda.
MEET THE new Slenderman–an evil clown named Laughing Jack. A 12-year old Indiana girl allegedly stabbed her 50-year-old stepmother to death and setting their apartment on fire. Why? To please Laughing Jack.
THE TITLE of this week’s show is a reference to an exchange this week on QVC about whether the Moon is a planet or a star. Closer to home, we discuss Russia, ISIS, a third gender, and a flap 60 years ago, when the United States tracked a pair of “natural” satellites that suddenly appeared on radar in low earth orbit over the equator.