Fuel Efficiency, Area 51 Raid, Romantic Types

The Trump Administration Wants to Ease Restrictions on Automakers. Ford, Honda, VW & BMW Say “No Thanks” Guest: Kenneth Gillingham, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University The Trump Administration is in the process of relaxing gas-mileage standards for cars and trucks. Which you’d think automakers would welcome. So why did four of them –Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW of North America –just cut a deal with the state of California to stick with the stricter rules? Why Storming Area 51 Is Unlikely to Yield Alien Secrets Guest: Peter W. Merlin, Aerospace Historian, Founding Member of the X-Hunters Aerospace Archeology Team, Author of “Images of Aviation: Area 51” So apparently it was a college kid’s joke, but the Facebook page calling for a mass invasion of the secretive government site Area 51 went viral. Before the owner took it down recently, more than a million people signed on to “Storm Area 51” on September 20th. “They can’t stop all of us!” “Let’s see them aliens” the page quipped. And while it’s been taken down, others have popped up in its place. Just in case people are serious, the military has warned that “Area 51 is an opening training range . . . and the US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.” Romantic Types Are Real, And It’s Better That We Know Guest: Geoff MacDonald, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto When a relationship ends badly, it’s pretty common for the partners to swear they’ll never partner with someone like that again. But easier said than done. A study of hundreds of people, and the people they’ve been in relationships with, found we really do gravitate toward a type. So, is there every any hope for turning a new leaf in love? Ads Can Make Us Mad—Which is Sometimes the Point Guest: Mark Bartholomew, Professor of Law, University of Buffalo IHOP or the International House of Pancakes changed their name last year to IHOB, the international house of burgers. At least that’s what they advertised. But IHOP didn’t actually change its na