Kgnu - How On Earth

  We take a look at favorite holiday sci-tech gifts, including the SparkFun Inventor’s Kit, Logicomix, Manga Guide to Electricity, Lego Mindstorms,  a fun new novelty for anyone on your list - giant microbes.  After the show, we also voted to add yet one more item to your last-minute gifts - a mesh bag of any size, for . . . what else?  Catching neutrinos. Also on the show this week,  How on Earth's Roger Wendell describes a new way to clean irrigation ditches, called, a "Self Cleaning Trash Screen for Irrigation Water (Watch on You Tube)." Local author and scientist Dick Williams talks with How on Earth's Chip Grandits about Dick's new book:  Eating Your Heart Out?  Williams, with coauthors Binx Selby and Linda Fong.  In his book, Dick writes, "For over a half-century, careful scientific researchers have known what a good balanced diet really means, yet most of us have largely ignored this important information. We have preferred to continue in our culturally determined ruts, eating ourselves to death