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Fifty years ago, on February 20, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower was mysteriously missing for a day during a golf vacation in Palm Springs, California. The legend is that he made a secret trip to a nearby Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrials. At first he was declared dead, then it was announced that he went to the dentist. But since he left at night, without telling anyone where he was going, people have always been suspicious.
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On our Dreamlandscience report this week Linda Moulton Howe interviews Mad Cow expert Giuseppe Legname, who says that U.S. efforts to control this disease are so bad, he’s stopped eating meat. Dave Louthan, who actually killed the mad cow on December 26, 2003, said the same thing on Dreamland recently. Now Tom Ellestad, owner of Vern’s Moses Lake Meats, where the cow was slaughtered, confirms that the cow was not a “downer.” This means there is no way to identify which cows have the disease unless every one of them is tested, and we now only test about 20,000 cows a year out of 35 million. The U.S. says it will test 40,000 cows during the upcoming year. France tests about 50,000 cattle every week, and Japan tests all cattle that are slaughtered for food. Dr.read more

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Taking a coffee break makes it harder for office workers to do their jobs?but only if they’re men. Having trouble quitting cigarettes? It may be because you were “born to smoke.” But not to worry: you can now “throw a switch” in your brain to get rid of your addictions. And if you’re hooked on marijuana, there’s a new medicine that will get rid of the “munchies.”
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A new technique called “brain fingerprinting,” which is much more accurate than a polygraph test, is an important new tool for catching criminals. However, in one of its first tests, it’s being used to overturn a murder conviction.
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