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A chicken in Grand Forks, North Dakota has tested positive for West Nile virus, and the disease has also arrived in glamorous Brentwood, California. The chicken belongs to one of the flocks the USDA has placed in various locations around the United States as an early warning for West Nile. Tracy Miller is one of the health workers who tests these flocks once a week to determine if they have been exposed to West Nile. On July 14, a chicken in one of the flocks tested positive, and a blue jay tested positive as well. She says, “While we didn’t think there would be a season that we wouldn’t find it, it’s a reminder that it is here.”
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Some of the things we assume work well, really don’t. For instance, cutting down on the number of cigarettes you smoke does not improve your health. And while beer ads on TV always push having a designated driver, who agrees not to drink alcohol so he can chauffeur everyone home, this does not prevent drunk driving because, according to researcher Randy Elder, “?the designated driver may be chosen based on who among the group is the least intoxicated,” rather than on who has abstained from drinking at all.
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We recently reported on the most sinful towns in the US. There’s an old adage that says that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but for modern folk, it’s easy to be clean, so most of us would substitute “exercise” for “cleanliness.” If you believe that exercise is good for you, instead of lying around like a couch potato, then you need to move to a place where you can get plenty of it. According to a new study, residents of cool, dry Montana are the most likely to get enough physical activity, while residents of hot, steamy areas like Puerto Rico get the least.
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We’ve had many magicians on Dreamland radio and they?ve made many claims. Sometimes they say they create crop circles and ET sightings. This makes it sound as if they’re taking credit for a lot of different mysteries, but afascinating new Insightarticletells why this idea may not be so farfetched after all.

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