For many years I have told anyone who will listen that, if you have a high cholesterol level, you will live longer. Equally, if you have a low cholesterol level, you will die younger. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a fact. The older you become the more beneficial it is to have a high cholesterol level. This fact has become more difficult to demonstrate recently as so many people have been put on Statins that the association between cholesterol levels and mortality has been twisted, bent and pumelled into the weirdest shapes imaginable.

The Statin scam has been exposed, but there are powerful sources at work in the medical system to keep it going. One of the best documentaries exposing the Statin scam and interviewing doctors in the industry who have exposed it, was published in 2013 on ABC in Australia. The medical authorities were not successful in preventing it from being aired on TV, but they have removed almost all copies from YouTube now, and forced ABC to remove them from their website.

The catch, of course, is that Ashley Madison is the website for cheating spouses, with the unsubtle tagline, "Life is short. Have an affair." And Mr Biderman, a former sports lawyer who says he was often forced to deal with the aftermath of his clients' affairs, says he is helping women catch up to men not by giving them equal pay or more education, but by allowing them to cheat with just as much frequency as men do.

"There's a lot of brick and mortar business from brothels to escort agencies that cater towards men, so I really wanted to focus on the female side of the equation," he says. That's why he named the site Ashley Madison, after the two most popular baby girl names in the United States at the time.

Whatever your view on that equality proposition is, his bet that cheating could be profitable seems correct: the company, which lets women use it for free, but charges men fees to create profiles and send messages, notched $150 million (£95 million) in revenues in 2014, all from subscriptions. But the big question now, as the firm attempts to raise $200 million in a public share sale in London - which would value it at nearly $1 billion - is whether or not anyone will be willing to publicly invest in infidelity.

So why ask for outside funding? Even Manuel Montevidoni, the chief financial officer of Gleeden told the BBC: "From a financial standpoint, as a chief financial officer, I don't understand why Ashley Madison is looking for financing." But he notes that the firm supports Ashley Madison's efforts, mostly because it brings public awareness to the ubiquity of infidelity - and perhaps, in Mr Montevidoni's opinion, will allow for more acknowledgement of what both firms say is a fundamental aspect of not just married life but human nature.

And for all of his investor prospectus jargon, Mr Biderman admits that it's not just about making money for him - and shakes off articles that have branded him as being "possibly evil". "We are showing society some newfound data that might make them think differently about laws and monogamy," he says. "I'm just at the changing tide of our belief around matrimony and sexuality - which is a deeper legacy to leave behind."

Considering the fact that the US national debt is only 18 trillion dollars, that is an amount of money that is almost incomprehensible. When this derivatives bubble finally bursts, there won’t be enough money in the entire world to bail everyone out. The key to making sure that all of these interest rate bets do not start going bad is for interest rates to remain stable.

That is why what is going on in Greece right now is so important. The Greek government has announced that it will default on a loan payment that it owes to the IMF on June 5th. If that default does indeed happen, Greek bond yields will soar into the stratosphere as panicked investors flee for the exits. But it won’t just be Greece. If Greece defaults despite years of intervention by the EU and the IMF, that will be a clear signal to the financial world that no nation in Europe is truly safe.

Bond yields will start spiking in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and all over the rest of the continent. By the end of it, we could be faced with the greatest interest rate derivatives crisis that any of us have ever seen. It isn’t going to take much to topple the current financial order. It could be a Greek debt default in June or it may be something else. But when it does collapse, it is going to usher in the greatest economic crisis that any of us have ever seen.

So keep watching Europe. Things are about to get extremely interesting, and if I am right, this is the start of something big.

Parts of Houston - the US's fourth most populous city - remain under water. Thousands of cars have been abandoned on city streets and highways. Scores of residents have been displaced and more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed.

The bad weather does not appear to be coming to an end - forecasts have predicted a 20% to 40% chance of thunderstorms for the rest of the week in Houston. The effects of the massive storms were also felt near the Texas border in Mexico. On Monday, at least 14 people - including an infant - were killed by a tornado that hit the northern Mexico border city of Acuna.

Problems continued elsewhere in Texas as Dallas-Fort Worth airport was forced to close a runway when a sinkhole was reported. Texas often experiences long periods of drought, despite heavy rainfall at times. As of the week of 19 May, areas in central Texas were experiencing abnormal to severe levels of drought, with 795,851 residents affected, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Prof Harari, who has written a landmark book charting the history of humanity, said mankind would evolve to become like gods with the power over death, and be as different from humans of today as we are from chimpanzees. He argued that humans as a race were driven by dissatisfaction and that we would not be able to resist the temptation to ‘upgrade’ ourselves, whether by genetic engineering or technology. “We are programmed to be dissatisfied, “said Prof Harari. “Even when humans gain pleasure and achievements it is not enough. They want more and more.”

“I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs, part organic part non-organic. It will be the greatest evolution in biology since the appearance of life. Nothing really has changed in four billion years biologically speaking. But we will be as different from today’s humans as chimps are now from us.”

However he warned that the 'cyborg' technology would be restricted to the wealthiest in society, widening the gap between rich and poor in society. In the future the rich may be able to live forever while the poor would die out. Prof Harari said humans had become such a dominant species because of our ability to invent ‘fictions’ which held society together, such as religion, money and the idea of fundamental human rights, which have no basis in nature.

“God is extremely important because without religious myth you can’t create society. Religion is the most important invention of humans. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods they were controllable. But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful and they no longer need the crutches of the Gods. Now we are saying we do not need God, just technology.”

“The most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Middle East, it’s Silicon Valley where they are developing a techno-religion. They believe even death is just a technological problem to be solved. What enables humans to cooperate flexibly, and exist in large societies is our imagination. With religion it’s easy to understand. You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will.”

“Most legal systems are based on human rights but it is all in our imagination. Money is the most successful story ever. You have the master storytellers, the bankers, the finance ministers telling you that money is worth something. It isn’t. Try giving money to a chimp. It’s worthless.”

Google has published a patent that suggests creepy-looking teddy bears and rabbits could one day keep a watchful eye on children and adults, eavesdropping on everything we say. The internet-connected devices would listen for instructions and interact with homeowners to switch lights on and off or turn on household appliances upon a simple vocal command, for example.

The toys, dreamed up by Google’s secretive R&D division, have captured the attention of privacy campaigners, because they contain microphones, speakers and cameras. The toys also feature motors to change their facial expressions and have the ability to connect to the internet. Google’s patent suggests the ‘toy’ would listen for a trigger word and upon hearing it, would turn to face the speaker. Using cameras, it would check the person is making eye contact with the toy, the BBC reports.

It suggests that by looking cute, ‘young children might find these forms to be attractive’ and adults would interact with them more naturally than a traditional computer interface. Homes could use one or have a number of ‘toys’ to spread around the home to assist different members of the family.