The Visitors will reveal themselves FIRST in China – Everyone in the US is waiting for the Visitors to land on the White House lawn, but the last time they showed up in a big way, we shot at them. Whitley thinks the Visitors will first reveal themselves in China, and here’s why. We hope some UFOs will show up at the skywatch at our Stargate Conference in October (as long as the earth’s crust stays in place)! If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would already know about Whitley’s new journal. To sign up, click here.

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Scientists have identified cells in the stomach that time the release of a hormone that makes animals eat even when they are NOT hungry (like we humans sometimes do). But maybe that’s not always a bad thing: People with large thighs have fewer heart attacks.

Researcher Rae Silver has some diet advice for us: “It’s a good thing to eat meals at a regularly scheduled time of day.” Just don’t make one of those times of day late at night! On BBC News, Sudeep Chand quotes researcher Deanna Arble as saying, “One of our research interests is shift workers, who tend to be overweight. This got us thinking that eating at the wrong time of day might be contributing to weight gain.”
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Despite all the warnings from the Bush administration, a bird flu epidemic did not materialize in this country. Is swine flu an empty threat as well?

In 1918, the Spanish flu raced around the globe, ending the lives of an estimated 40 million people in less than a year. Epidemiologists believe one in four Americans became infected during that pandemic with 750,000 dying.

Fears are mounting that the H1N1 flu, which appeared in the spring of this year, will turn as deadly and mimic the course of the Spanish flu that initially struck in mild waves in the spring and summer of 1917 only to turn lethal in the fall and early winter of 1918.
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Instead of cooling down – New research indicates that Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years. In fact, the Arctic would be COOLING right now if it wasn’t for the greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns, such as reduction in sunspots.

When scientists used their computers to reconstruct summer temperatures across the Arctic over the last 2,000 years, decade by decade, they found that thousands of years of gradual Arctic cooling, related to natural changes in earth’s orbit, would continue today if not for emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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