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Not the spice of the century, but the most amazing spice of all time. With Americans suffering more than ever with crippling illnesses like arthritis, diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer's, now more than ever health aficionados are seeking the ancient healing that comes from the golden spice known as "turmeric".

What if there's an easy way to lose weight? What if you don't have to count calories, exercise like a professional athlete, and be hungry all the time? When he came to America, Philip Green was a skinny international student. Nine years later, the American lifestyle had caught up with him -- he was overweight. Everything changed after he discovered oatmeal. He lost 42 pounds on a self-devised oatmeal diet in three months. His diet was so effective that people started to ask him about his quick weight-loss secret.

A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Life is tough for an embry. Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, chicken embryos are usually aborted by the egg folk early in life. Once in a while, one survives and slips through, hatching into an embry, an ostracized, lower caste anthropomorphic chicken. They have their own ghettos, and are barely tolerated by polite society.

A mobster is terminally ill. He has a list of former enemies. He needs to make things right before he dies. 

Become a pro in asking questions and programing skills into Alexa. Are you ready for an amazing experience with your Amazon Echo Dot? Stop thinking hard about what to ask Alexa or how to program the skills into your device. This book is a step-by-step guide that will take you from being a beginner to becoming a pro with teaching Alexa new skills.

Ma always wanted me to be a lawyer. She always believed in fighting for justice the right way. She never did admire lawlessness and the outlaws of the times. She said Jesse James and others of his kind were just creations of the press. She said they often benefitted from the local newspapers glorifying their exploits.

"The Most Dangerous Reality" is a short story inspired by Richard Connell's classic tale "The Most Dangerous Game." It originally appeared in anthology The Game. A newly minted M.D. confronted with massive student loan debts decides to put himself to the ultimate challenge: volunteer to be hunted for sport by a wealthy outdoorsman on a remote tropical island. If he is still alive after three days, his financial problems will be solved. What the doctor doesn't know is that the "sportsman" contracting him for the hunt is an actor as part of a reality TV show.

"Cold Boiler Blues": When the miners of Ironstation go on strike, Otto Von Maxwell must provide wives for his all male staff or stoop to the low act of purchasing the coal he needs to keep his boilers hot and his science hotter. "Calliope": The arrival of a traveling exterminator and his miraculous musical contraption brings joy to a vermin ridden town, until it comes time to give the piper his due. "Excellent Service": Harold has fallen in love with his clockwork maid. Unfortunately, the act that is not only frowned upon by polite society, it's against the law.

On tonight’s broadcast, award-winning chronojournalist Jace Vern travels to one of the most turbulent periods of the Twentieth Century to show us a key moment in human history, a moment that opened the door to all the worlds beyond the Old Blue and Green. The Apollo 11 mission changed the world forever, but did everything happen the way the history books tell us?