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Ever since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, in which a truck filled with fertilizer parked outside was used as a weapon, Homeland Security has worried about terrorists using fertilizer bombs. They’ve already been used in Baghdad. Now a major company has created fertilizer that cannot be turned into a bomb.

Anil Ananthaswamy writes in New Scientist that the problem is the ammonium nitrate in the fertilizer, which is an essential ingredient. However, Specialty Fertilizer Products has patented a water-soluble polymer coating for the fertilizer granules that repels fuel oil, so it is not flammable. The coating dissolves rapidly in soil, so it won?t interfere with its use as a fertilizer.
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Scientists speculate that bacteria may spread through the universe on asteroids and that life on Earth may have come from Mars. Now they’ve discovered the opposite: that life on Mars may have come from Earth during the last 30 years.

In New Scientist, David L. Chandler quotes NASA’s Andrew Schuerger as saying, "I believe there is life on Mars, and it’s unequivocally there, because we sent it." He says that of all the space probes sent to Mars, only the two Viking craft in 1976 were sterilized, a procedure which is routinely done now. He thinks some Earth bacteria may be still living on Mars.
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The rate of obesity in the U.S. started to increase in the 1970s, about the same time that manufacturers switched from sugar to cheaper corn syrup for their colas and other soft drinks. Now researchers say this may be because high fructose corn syrup?a food, like margarine, that is created in the lab and not found in nature?does not trigger the same appetite response in the body as sugar, so it’s more likely to make us fat.
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Dave Louthan, who has been interviewed on Dreamland and mentioned in our newsletter several times, is an authentic hero who caught the USDA in a lie and forced them to start inspecting many more cattle for Mad Cow Disease. Now he needs our help. We’ve sent him a check. Please read his letter and consider doing the same.

“Hi, my name is Dave Louthan. I’m the killer of the mad cow. I’m also the USDA’s worst nightmare. They started lying the second that the word of a positive BSE test slipped out. I started contradicting them one minute later. I have blown their ‘based on science’ lies right out of the water.
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