In her latest diary, Anne Strieber writes: “I’ve lived through some exciting times in the past few years that I’ve shared with you: What it’s like to go to the premiere of a major motion picture and the premiere of a small one, and what it’s like to sit backstage while your husband is on a late night network talk show. Now I’m going to tell you what it’s like to be in the audience while your husband films a pilot for a possible TV series.” Don’t miss this hilarious new episode in Anne’s life!

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An object about the size of a golf ball and weighing 13 ounces crashed through the roof of a Monmouth, NJ home at approximately 9PM local time on Tuesday. The object was tested by the Monmouth County Office of Emergency Management and found not to be a radiation hazard. The FAA determined that it was not metallic debris from an airplane. The object struck the house with enough force to break through the roof and ceiling, and shatter tile on a bathroom floor.

In LiveScience.com, Chris Newmarker quotes local policeman Robert Brightman as saying, “It’s rather unusual. I haven’t seen anything like it in my career.”
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A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists claimsthat ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue.

According to the report, between 1998 and 2005, ExxonMobil funneled nearly $16 million to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that try to confuse the public on global warming science.
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An African Gray parrot named N’kisi seems to have a vocabulary of 950 words, as well as a sense of humor. He is currently being studied by chimp expert Jane Goodall, as well as by researcher Rupert Sheldrake. Alex Kirby reports in BBC News that when Nikisi first met Goodall, he asked her "Got a chimp?"

Goodall says that N’kisi exhibits an "outstanding example of interspecies communication."

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