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UPDATE – While officials from major countries such as Canada to Japan are openly admitting the existence of UFOs, an economist who was a Cato Institute scholar for 20 years was kicked out after suggesting that the think tank study UFOs. Read to the end for update from Dom Armentano.

In the TC Palm website, Dom Armentano writes, “?They cut me away in a heartbeat because I dared call for more government disclosure on the UFO phenomenon.” This happened immediately after he wrote an article in a newspaper titled “Intelligent Extraterrestrial life: The Other Inconvenient truth?”
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The reason you like gazing into your lover’s eyes may be because you used to gaze into your mother’s eyes when you were an infant, since this released a comforting brain hormone, which is also stimulated by touches and hugs. And what if those eyes you’re gazing into are blue?

Researchers have learned that the brain chemical oxytocin is released through touch between mother-infant and male-female pair bonds. It is released during hugging and pleasant physical touch, and may actually change the brain in a way that helps human social behavior.
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Cars that fix their own dents, now tires that heal themselves! This would also solve a major trash problem affecting the environment.

French researchers have created a new artificial rubber, made of vegetable oil and other ingredients (one of which is urine), which can repair itself even when it is cut in half. In BBC News, Roland Pease describes the process: “Using a razor blade [one of the inventors] severed a thin strand of the yellowish material (the color of corn oil), showed me the clean square faces, and then pressed them together.” The two halves immediately stuck together again. Soon, if you get a nail in your tire, you may be able to simply remove it and press the hole closed?and drive away!

Art credit: freeimages.co.uk
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Much of Florida has suffered a general power failure, whichtook place as storms passed over the region. As of 2:45local time, emergency efforts were under way to determinethe cause of the failure that has affected 4.5 million powercustomers. Broward and Dade counties were among the areashit, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale. A complex processinvolving the shutdown of a nuclear power plant that wasunable to ship its electricity due to a failure of powertransmission lines is believed to be responsible for theshutdown.
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