W.W.I.D. --- What Would I Do?

I thought maybe I just had too much time on my hands, but Oprah wanted to know, too! Have you ever wondered how a telephone works? What has to happen for a voice to travel instantaneously from one phone to another? Do you find it mind boggling trying to figure out how Oprah goes from her Harpo studio onto your tv screen?

Oprah's show today answered these questions and more. She had Marshall Brain on as a guest. He is the author of How Stuff Works. Email going from "here to there in a matter of seconds" gets me wondering. I often think about how inventors like Alexander Graham Bell managed to figure it all out.

Mr. Brain's (yes, that's his real name) explanations just made it all the more awesome. Science is often thought of as a path away from the divine, but I think it's the exact opposite. Did you know that phone conversations and radio shows are always going through our bodies? Even when you know how, it's still an amazing world.

Oprah also had Maria Bartiromo explain other mysteries. Did you ever wonder what NASDAQ stands for? Or what stocks are? I had an a-ha moment or two when she defined stocks in less than fifteen seconds and...it all made sense!!!