Presents research on the practices of shamans of different countries, including fasting, drumming, eating plant toxins, and performing exhaustive activites to induce a trance.
Identifies the causes, characteristics, and impacts of the Great Recession, and examines how the United States's economic problems rippled throughout the world economy.
Examines different points of view about the valdity of certain conspiracy theories, examining speculations about the September 11st attacks, the origins of the AIDS virus, the assassination of John F.