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If you’re eating a traditional Mediterranean diet for good health, add a daily serving of mixed nuts, especially if you have metabolic syndrome (which so many Americans do!) And should you worry about your child becoming allergic to nuts? Finally, there is a mysterious shortage of acorns along the East Coast this year. They aren’t on the ground, meaning they weren’t on the oak trees either. Are oaks being affected by pollution or global warming? For scientists, this is a mystery, but for squirrels, this could mean war!
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How does science get new ideas? One way is to hold a contest. When the rest of us (who aren’t geniuses) want to know something, we usually look it up on the internet. Now Google has released the top 10 searchers on their site for 2008. Alas they show a lack of imagination: Sarah Palin, Facebook and Barack Obama. No wonder most of us will never win the X Prize!

In LiveScience.com, Michael Schirber quotes Sarah Evans, the head of the X Prize Foundation, as saying, “We recognized that we don’t have all of the answers, and wanted to reach out to the people that a prize in energy and the environment would affect and find out their ideas for what we should be focusing on.
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Not because it’s Christmas! – We’re all annoyed by those “red eyes” that show up in photographs when we use a flash. But did you know that men’s FACES can turn out red too? (And WOMEN’S faces can look green!)

Why is this? Because male faces really do have a red tint, while female faces have a naturally green hue. We may have evolved this way to help us tell men from women at a distance.

In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes researcher Michael Tarr as saying, “Just looking at the average color in faces you can reliably tell 70 or 80% of the time whether it’s a male or female face.
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In his new journal, Whitley talks about our denial of the Visitors and of the futility he sometimes feels about having dedicated his life to this subject. He also writes about how our money problems may be at least partially caused by the fact that our ancestors were like lemurs! If you love Whitley’s journals and Anne’s diaries, support this site: Subscribe today!

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