There’s nothing wrong with a little white lie occasionally–it’s the big ones that bother us. But there’s justice in the world: It turns out that liars are LESS HEALTHY than the rest of us, and that telling the truth when tempted to lie can significantly improve a person’s mental and physical health.
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And yes, despite all the warnings (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), there really IS going to be a 2013, and you can make yours especially beautiful by using Lucy Pringle’s magnificent, mysterious and uplifting new calendar–her annual selection of gorgeous images from her huge photo collection cannot be beat!
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Scientists are still trying to break the cosmic speed limit that says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, even if it means bending the laws of physics. While they don’t yet know if WE can do it, there’s evidence that PARTICLES can move faster than light.
As for us humans, we may still be stuck on the elevator, but an experiment called OPERA (for Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) recently announced that it has spotted neutrinos travelling a few fractions of a second faster than the speed of light.
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Predators are being chased out of the countryside by suburban building and are moving into the cities, where they can prey on small pets. For instance, a coyote community has lived for at least six years less than a mile from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.. Science Daily quotes environmentalist Stan Gehrt as saying, "That’s an indication that they don’t have to go far to find food and water. They’re finding everything they need right there, in the suburbs of Chicago."
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