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Ira Flatow, from NPR’s Science Friday interviews Mary Roach, author of the book, “Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife”.

Ms Roach asks the question: Is the end of life really The End? Though conventional scientific wisdom says so, that hasn’t stopped researchers around the world from trying to quantify the soul, explore near-death experiences, and other research into what might come next.

Listen to the free online audio segment from NPR.

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(VentureBeat) VC investors doing well, mega buyout guys doing even better. Early stage venture capitalists who invested over the past ten years have averaged a whopping 37 percent return annually, according to the latest data from Thomson Financial.
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(Editor’s Weblog) After buying the social networking site last July, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is rumored to be in acquisition talks with the social news site Digg.com. The MySpace purchase is generally viewed as a triumph as the sites traffic has quickly exploded, reaching the status of most viewed site in America in the summer of 2006. More…

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(Techcrunch) Palo Alto based Maya’s Mom is a sort of Yahoo Answers plus Facebook, for parents, that we previously announced back in April. The site went live yesterday and already has fairly deep content. Other companies are addressing the parenting/family social network opportunity as well (we’ve covered Minti, Famster and FriendsForFamilies). More…

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(Techcrunch) Simply Hired, which is partially funded by Fox Interactive, is a great job search engine that continues to do well against arch-rival Indeed.com, which is backed by the New York Times. On Monday Simply Hired will announced another specialty search engine, this time for 50+ year olds. This adds already existing search engines for dog, mother, environmental and sexual orientation friendly companies. More…

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