The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies admits that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet.” Ron Oxburgh, the chairman of Shell, says, “No one can be comfortable at the prospect of continuing to pump out the amounts of carbon dioxide that we are pumping out at present?with consequences that we really can’t predict but are probably not good.”
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We have only 25 of these wonderful 30-page free booklets left! In them, UFO researcher Stan Friedman talks about the star map drawn by Betty Hill during her world-famous UFO abduction in 1961. The Zeta Reticuli Incident was published in 1975 and these are pristine, original copies. The glossy, full-color pages include an analysis of Betty’s star map and articles by many notable scientists and astronomers. Your copy will automatically come with every order you place for anything in the Unknowncountry.com store while supplies last. But there are only 25 left. If you want to get one of them, don’t risk including backordered items in your order. Order from existing stock to be most certain of being one of last customers to receive a copy of the Zeta Reticuli Incident.
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The Chinese know how to get sexually shy pandas to mate in captivity: Show them panda pornography. The project has been a success: Hua Mei is finally pregnant. Zookeepers are worried that pandas may die out because it’s so hard to get them interested in sex.
Hua Mei was born to two zoo pandas on loan from the San Diego zoo, and is the first foreign-born panda to be returned to China, where pandas originated. Ever since she’s come home to the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center, she’s been shown videos of pandas mating as an incentive to do so herself. As humans know, this kind of inspiration often works.
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What’s a flash mob? It starts with a message sent to a list of people telling them all to show up at the same place at the same time and to be prepared to do something crazy, then vanish into thin air. Now it’s gone global.
Michelle Delio writes in wired.com that “this Saturday, at 2 pm local time, people in 76 cities in 32 countries will participate in a global flash to celebrate the first anniversary of what is now a worldwide phenomenon.” The first mob gathered on June 19, 2003.
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