UPDATE – We’re in the middle of a bee emergency. Albert Einstein said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live.” A mysterious ailment called Colony Collapse Disorder is causing agricultural honeybees nationwide to abandon their hives and disappear. It’s a kind of mass suicide in the bee world. We have an UPDATE on this story from a reader.
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Over a year ago, we reported that the new moon race isn’t about space exploration?it’s all about the precious Helium 3 fuel lying on the moon’s surface. Now major media outlets are beginning to report this story.
In the website MSNBC.com, Alan Boyle quotes geologist and astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who took part in the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, as saying that “Helium-3 as a potential fuel for future fusion reactors. That particular isotope of helium appears to be abundant on the moon.” It’s a gift just waiting for the taking?let’s just hope that we don’t now take our earth-bound wars over land out into space.
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The world is about to change in a big way?the continents are being rearranged by earthquakes. One scientist says, “We don’t precisely know what is going to happen, but we believe that it may turn parts of Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea into an island, before a much larger land mass?the horn of Africa?breaks off from the continent.”
Much of this is being observed by satellite. In LiveScience.com, Sara Goudarzi quotes geologist Tim Wright as saying, “Much of the activity between the continental shelves takes place deep underwater at the mid-ocean ridges. Ethiopia is the only place on the planet where we can see a continent splitting apart on dry land.”
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Occasionally we’ve written about magic on this website?and sometimes quantum physics can SEEM like magic. Now science has turned its attention to sword swallowing.
Radiologist Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer, of Sword Swallowers’ Association International, sent out medical questionnaires to over 100 professional sword swallowers to determine what sort of medical problems they encountered.
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