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Use an army of home computers! – Thousands of personal laptops have helped to listen for SETI signals and search for Dark Matter. No matter what is causing these quakes, seismologists want to use home computers to detect them early, so they can warn people about them.

Earth scientist Elizabeth Cochran wants Every personal computer to double as a seismic monitor, especially since she works in California, where the next Big One has long been predicted. What will happen if you sign up with “Quake Catchers?” You’ll install a sensor on your computer that costs less than $50 (some computers already have them), then you’ll be reading the great stories on unknowncountry.com and your computer will begin to tremble.
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It hits teenagers especially hard – Is something unseen threatening our safety? Since Daylight Savings time starts on Sunday, March 14, we’d better figure out how to protect ourselves.

Daylight Saving Time can be hazardous for your health. On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Saving after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies have found there’s a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries on the first Monday of Daylight Saving. Researcher Nidhi Undevia says, “Many people already are chronically sleep-deprived, and Daylight Saving Time can make them even more tired for a few days.”
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Something very strange has happened: A cure for Alzheimer’s may have been discovered in soil from Easter Island. Bacteria isolated from the dirt in this mysterious, isolated place has cured memory deficits in mice.

A drug called Rapamycin, which keeps the immune system from attacking transplanted organs, cured brain lesions in mice with Alzheimer’s. It is also being tested in cancer research studies.
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British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees thinks that aliens may be here but only a few people see them because they are invisible to most of us. This goes along with the information that Anne Strieber received from the half a million letters from contactees that she read: In a group of people, one or two would be contacted (or even abducted!), while the others saw (and experienced) nothing unusual.

The Discovery Channel website quotes Rees as saying, “They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognize them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.
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