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Oscar is still at it: After all this time, the five-year-old cat named Oscar, who was adopted as a kitten by a nursing home in Providence, Rhode Island, still has the amazing ability to detect death. (If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would have already read this story! To sign up, click here).

Oscar when he was just a kitten. Although he is not a social guy, he has “predicted” over 50 deaths by cuddling up to those who had only hours left to live. Oscar has even out-guessed the nursing home staff and will scratch at the door of a dying patient if he is not allowed in.
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AND chupacabras! – How can you make sure that you don’t get a visit from Oscar the cat soon? If you want more time, here’s what you should know: The same evolutionary genetic advantages that have helped increase human lifespans also make us uniquely susceptible to diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease and dementia. It all has to do with eating meat.
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Will the time come when there are no more homeless people shivering in the snow? Anne Strieber has written about her friendship with a homeless lucky lady and about how she feels homeless herself, but some people REALLY ARE homeless. A sociologist wanted to find out why so many of these people refuse to go to shelters but actually seem to prefer living on the street.
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As more and more people stop smoking, we may find a new use for tobacco in the future: as a biofuel.

Researchers have found a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step in using the plants for biofuel. According to researcher Vyacheslav Andrianov, tobacco can generate biofuel more efficiently than other agricultural crops. However, most of the oil is typically found in the seeds: tobacco seeds are composed of about 40% percent oil.
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