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It started with the original Viking Lander missions in theseventies: one of the life detection projects providedalmost unequivocal evidence that life was present in thesoil of Mars.

Instead of even entertaining the notion that the tests mighthave indicated life, NASA literally jumped through hoops todeny their validity.

More recently, two NASA scientists were allegedly about topublish a letter in Nature stating that there was apossibility of life on Mars. NASA raced to deny this “rumor.”

Even though NASA ishostile tothe idea of life existing on Mars,European scientists are much more rational about thepossibility, and now a prominent Italian planetologist saysgases in the atmosphere of Marsmay indicate that life exists on the Red Planet today. read more

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As a book rose on the US bestseller lists claiming thatglobal warming was a “scam,” and conservative radio hostsnationwide began claiming that this year’s harsh wintermeant that the problem was ‘bunk,’ increasingly catastrophicsigns of impending sudden climate change continued to build.

During the second week of Feburary, a completelyunprecedented and unexplained heat wave struck Greenland.Already, melt off Greenland’s glaciers has reached recordproportions. Should this heat wave be a portent of a hotsummer in the far north, the stage will be set for theunfolding of a serious climate catastrophe.

This could take the form of ultra-violent weather, or thecollapse of substantial amounts of Greenland ice into thesea, or both.
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This week on Dreamland,Mark Hall takes us on an adventure in search of mysterious giant birds, which may still exist right here in the UnitedStates. Then Linda Howe explores the mystery of whysocieties self-destruct, and why we might be going down avery dangerous road. OnMysteriousPowers, Anne Strieber talks with herbalist Stephen Buhner, whotells us how to understand the plant world in a whole newway.
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Newswise – It’s recently been proven that secondhand tobacco smoke isextremely dangerous for nonsmokers and actually causeschromosomalbreakage in the fetuses of pregnant women. Now it’s beenrevealed that in 1987, tobacco industry executives at PhilipMorris deliberately planted lies in a journal they published.

The Lancet reports that, according to Australian researcherSimon Chapman, who reviewed 484 articles published in thejournal “Indoor and Built Environment” between January 1992and February 2004, paid consultants to the tobacco industrywrote most of the articles. Not surprisingly, 61% of thesearticles came to the conclusion that secondhand smoke isn’tdangerous.

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