A Serious Look at UFOs & The Power of Grace in Today’s World
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Why are we throwing out food we don't need to?
Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
Hi, and welcome to Something You Should Know. So when you throw out food... Food that's clearly rotten, bad, sitting at the bottom of the refrigerator for six months. Okay, you know to throw that away. But what about some of the other food, the questionable food? Most of us use the date on the food label to determine whether to keep it or toss it. But experts say Americans throw out billions of pounds of perfectly good food every year because of those confusing labels. The sell-by date on a package is intended for the retailer, not for you, and it winds up misleading a lot of us. Many dates printed on the food we buy are actually meaningless when it comes to freshness or safety. Even use-by dates or best-before dates are misleading and encourage us to throw away good food before it's time. One food scientist said you just cannot tie shelf life to a date. If the food looks rotten and it smells bad, sure, throw it away. But just because it's past the date on the package doesn't necessarily mean it's unsafe. And that is something you should know.
There sure are a lot of wacky conspiracy theories about UFOs flying around. And we know the U.S. government has and is investigating UFOs. But what is actually known? Is there any evidence that any UFO has contained beings from another planet? After all, you have to wonder, as many people have, if aliens were to come all that way from another planet or even another galaxy. why would they land in a swamp somewhere where only two people get to see them and those people maybe take some grainy, out-of-focus picture? Why wouldn't the aliens land in the middle of Times Square? The fact is a UFO is an unidentified flying object, meaning nobody is sure what it is. And if, for argument's sake, we put aside the alien spacecraft idea, well then what else could it be?
And why is the government seemingly so interested yet so hush-hush about UFOs? Well, that's what Garrett Graff set out to investigate. Garrett is a former editor for Politico and contributor to Wired and CNN. He has written several books about politics, technology, and national security and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is titled UFO, The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here and Out There. Hi, Garrett. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks so much for having me. So do we have any idea when people first started looking up and going, gee, I wonder if anybody else is out there or some other creature or, ooh, what's that over there? And when people first started getting interested in what you would call a UFO?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why are we throwing out food we don't need to?
1:32–6:02
2
What is the real story behind UFO sightings?
6:02–13:06
3
What is Area 51 and why is it significant?
13:06–21:31
4
Does the government know more about UFOs than it reveals?
21:31–35:30
5
What percentage of UFO sightings remain unexplained?
35:30
6
How does popular culture influence our perception of UFOs?
21:05–44:17
7
What are the implications of government secrecy regarding UFOs?
44:17–49:23
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