The podcast for The Cosmetics Cop: Paula Begoun has materialized here.

Paula Begoun is the bestselling author of “The Beauty Bible” and “Don’t Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me.” We’ll examine the science behind some popular beauty products, and find out what real research says about makeup myths.

That also includes this segment: The Amazing Meeting with Austin Luton, Jeff Wagg and K.O. Myers

This Friday:’s show is:

Transhumanism

We explore the predictions and the problems in the quest to “enhance” human beings. We’re joined by George Dvorsky of Sentient Developments and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and blogger Greg Fish. How will advancing technology affect our bodies, our lives, and our society?

And that show will include this segment: …another installment of “Everything You Know is Sort Of Wrong” with Greg Laden. This week: Did Humans Evolve from Apes? which deals with The Falsehoods

Corpus Collosum shows us this graph of search frequency on Google for the word “Science.”And asks “What could it possibly mean?”What it means is this: The following is a graph of search frequency on Google for the word “Santa.”The graphs are from Google Trends. Just in case it is not utterly obvious, the steep annual dip in science is exactly correlated with the Santa Spike.What is not entirely evident is why are there two Santa Spikes per year? The larger one in December makes sense, but this later one in Feb/March does not. Unless you know that this is the time each year of the Santa Barbara Athletic Round table. … Ah, THAT Santa…