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Unknowcountry’s Seattle correspondent reports that afireball moved slowly over the city at 7:47 PM on March 12. According to the US Geologic Survey, the area hadexperienced an earthquake rated at 3.3 on the Richter scalenine minutes earlier at 7:38. At 7:48PM, parts of downtownSeattle experienced a brief power outage.

The Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network centered thequake15 miles from Olympia and 16 miles in depth. Local residentsfelt the quake. Local media are reporting the quake and thefireball as unrelated events, and the power outage has notreached local news.
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It’s earthquake week on Dreamland. We lead off with a reportfrom Linda Howe about the earthquake swarm that took placeoff the coast of Oregon last week. Does it mean a majorquake is on the way that could strike the Pacific Northwest?Linda has the best scientific information available. Thenindependent earthquake researcher Frank Condon spends anhour with Whitley discussing the actual condition of ourearth, and telling us things that the conventionalscientists are afraid to explore.Click here to visitFrank?s website. Whitley will be in thesubscriber chatroom from 1 to 2 p.m. Pacific this Saturday, March 12, totalk about recent earthquake activity. Also for subscribers,Whitley interviews Dr.read more

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How to catch that burglar who made off with your stereo? Thepolice have a new way to do it?they’ve found that burglarsoften can’t resist raiding the refrigerator and theysometimes leave saliva behind on crumbs and partially eatenfood containing DNA that can be used to identify them.

Anna Gosline writes in New Scientist magazine that accordingto a 1973 article in the British Dental Journal, “Criminalsappear to be unable to resist food, chocolate or fruit thatthey find on premises into which they enter illegally.”
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Some of our ancestors, who lived in Indonesia as recently as18,000 years ago, had tiny brains that were only about athird the size of modern human brains, yet they were capableof advanced thinking equal to our own. Scientists arecalling them “hobbits,” after the little people in the popular films andbooks.

The journal Science reports that the tiny people who oncelived on the island of Flores in Indonesia were a uniquespecies. They were the only ones to inhabit the island for100,000 years, before they became extinct?possibly due to avolcanic eruption that occurred around 12,000 years ago andcould have shot enough ash into the atmosphere to preventthe sun from reaching their crops. They could also have beenwiped out by the arrival of modern humans.
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