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This is the time of year when people are fertilizing their lawns and putting pesticides on them. A new study shows that these chemicals may cause bladder cancer in some dogs?and maybe in people too. Researcher Larry Glickman says, “While we hope to determine which of the many chemicals in lawn treatments are responsible, we also hope the similarity between human and dog genomes will allow us to find the genetic predisposition toward this form of cancer found in both Scotties and certain people.
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In Spring, many of us look for signs that the weather is warming, and one of these is the first sighting of a robin. Recently Inuits living in Northern Canada had the same experience?for the first time ever. Are robins in the far north a sign of global warming?

Martin Mittelstaedt writes for the Canada Globe & Mail that the Inuits (also known as Eskimos) don’t even have a name for the robin. In the summer of 1993, Inuits showed John Babaluk of the federal fisheries a fish they’d never seen before, which turned out to be a sockeye salmon. “We actually saw, recorded, took pictures and did some measurements on some sockeye salmon that had shown up in Sachs Harbor,” Babaluk says, “That was the first time that any of the locals that we talked to had seen them.”
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How can we get the media to stop laughing at UFOs and start putting pressure on the government for real answers? Popular Dreamland guest Will Hart has a modest proposal.

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If the slab of granite known as the Kensington Runestone is real, it proves the Vikings were in central Minnesota more than a century before Columbus discovered America. Researchers are taking the stone to Sweden to ask experts there if it’s genuine. There are many runestones in Sweden?massive rocks carved with strange designs and symbols.
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