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Another mystery hum is driving people nuts, and this time it’s in New Zealand?and, yet again, the locals have no idea that this is a worldwide phenomenon.

Massey University researchers are investigating an unexplained hum that hundreds of people are reporting, but other people cannot hear. As usual with these hums, some people are actually being made ill by the incessant tone.

When you can’t get a song out of your head, US researchers call it an ear worm. But there’s no such term for a hum that won’t go away, despite the fact that many major US cities have been affected by such noise.

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While scientists understand why the leaves on trees turn yellow and orange in the fall, they DON’T understand why some of them turn red, but they do know that it can be a sign of danger for the tree.

Cory Binns writes in LiveScience.com that leaves stop producing chlorophyll in response to colder weather and less daylight. Chlorophyll is what they use to create energy out of sunlight, but this substance is sensitive to cold temperatures. The orange and gold colors have been there all the time, UNDERNEATH the green?they just aren’t revealed until the green disappears.
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Chicago sociologist Walter Benn Michaels thinks the racial divide is REALLY based on money?who has it, and who doesn’t. He says, “We love race?we love identity?because we don’t love class. We love thinking that the differences that divide us are not the differences between those of us who have money and those who don’t but are instead the differences between those of us who are black and those who are white or Asian or Latino or whatever.”
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Update – An earthquake struck the Big Island of Hawaii this morning,knocking out power and raising the possibility of largewaves in the area, but the United States Geologic Surveysaid there was no chance of a Pacific Tsunami. GovernorLinda Lingle declared the Big Island a disaster area onSunday afternoon. Residents reported powerful shaking. Onewrote, “Iheld onto my bed for 20 seconds, and said, this mustbe the BIG one!”

The National Earthquake Information Center reported that thequake, tentatively measured at 6.3 on the Richter Scale,occurred at 7:07 a.m. local time, 10 miles north-northwestof Kailua Kona on the west coast of the Big Island.

There have been numerous aftershocks, including one thatmeasured 5.8 on the Richter Scale.
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