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Shark attacks are on the rise in Australia?and some people think the country’s attempts to protect sharks are to blame.

It might also be because more people are going swimming. In Time Magazine, Rory Callinan quotes researcher Rory McAuley as saying, “?People are getting into the water over a greater area of the shark’s range. It’s probably likely to expect to see an increase in shark sightings and attacks.”

But some fisherman say the government’s new policy of making them throw man-eaters back into the water are to blame. Callinan quotes fisherman Vic Hislop as saying, “Sharks do hang around after the attack, and the government has a duty of care to deal with it…[sharks] learn to kill humans. They learn to go in hard and fast.”
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We’re not the only ones whose military has been ordered to shoot down UFOs. Newly declassified UFO documents in the UK reveal that the Royal Air Force was ordered to do the same thing.

ITN.com quotes UFO expert Nick Pope as saying, “Over a series of many years there have been what are known as shoot-down orders given in relation to UFOs. In other words, the military have scrambled jets, intercepted UFOs and tried to bring them down.”

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…when it comes to UFO investigation – In Whitley Strieber?s dynamic new Journal, he says that if US UFO files are finally declassified and scientists start trying to discover the truth about what’s flying around in our skies, we must proceed cautiously. He says, “The process of contact?and that is what is unfolding here, and has been for at least sixty years?is by far the most complex challenge that the human mind has ever faced. For this reason, as this unknown becomes an acknowledged public reality, we must start at the beginning, rather than jumping to conclusions about what is happening.” If you love Whitley’s Journals?and also like to chat with incredible people?support this site: Subscribe today. Our next chat will be on February 21 with John Hogue!
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First there were hobbits. Then there weren’t hobbits. Then there were hobbits again, but they were regular humans with a disease. Now the verdict is in: There WERE hobbits but they WEREN’T human!

In a an analysis of the size, shape and asymmetry of the cranium of one of the beings that have come to be known as “Hobbits,” researcher Karen Baab and her colleagues have concluded that the fossil, found in Indonesia in 2003, is not human. They used 3-D shape analysis to study the skull and found its shape to be that of a scaled-down human ancestor but not a modern human, meaning that the hobbit is a new species.
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