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We’ve recently written about how Alzheimer’s disease may be triggered by what you eat. Now scientists suspect that it could be prevented by what you smoke.

THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is better at suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that characterizes Alzheimer’s than any of the drugs now on the market. Almost 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, the dreaded disease that steals time.

Charles Q. Choi writes in LiveScience.com that THC may inhibit the action of the enzyme AchE in the brain, that accelerates the formation of those memory-destroying brain clumps.
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Could the anthrax attacks of five years ago happen here again? Bioterrorism expert Ken Alibek says yes, and he ought to know, since he used to develop biological weapons for the ex-Soviet Union. When someone sent anthrax through the mail to a group of reporters and politicians, five people died. The last anthrax attack consisted of a few envelopes sent out by an anonymous attacker, and we were helpless to fight it. The Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh says that despite spending over 40 million researching bioterrorism and training specialists to fight it, in Project BioShield, we wouldn’t do any better today.
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On Columbus Day, we should remember that history is constantly being rewritten. For instance, the Chinese claim that America was really first discovered by one of their explorers. If it WAS Christopher Columbus who first discovered America, newly discovered documents show that he was NOT a nice guy.

Graham Keeley writes in the Independent that Christopher Columbus routinely tortured his slaves and starved the settlers in the colonies he set up on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is now shared by two countries: the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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The difference between the lengths of a man’s index and ring fingers indicates whether or not a man is good at sports, but now scientists have found this is true for women too. Researchers have also discovered that the length of a man’s index finger is an indicator of the length of his penis.

If you have a longer ring finger than index finger, it means you have been exposed to more testosterone in the womb. Researchers think this can make both women AND men sexier and better at sports. It could also affect fertility, your vulnerability to serious diseases, your intellectual ability, certain personality traits, and musical talent.

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