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A massive solar flare saturated X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites for 11 minutes. The last time such a thing happened was in 2001. That flare was classified as an X22–the biggest ever. This one was even bigger. It was almost certainly the biggest flare ever recorded.

“This solar flare was the largest I have ever seen” said Dr. Ernest Hildner, director of the NOAA/NASA Space Weather Center. “The solar flare that occurred today was so large, we do not have a chart high enough to register it. My best guess would be between a X-25 and an X-30.”
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People aren’t the only ones who are left or right handed. Walruses, for instance, prefer to use their right flipper to search for clams, and the bones in their right limbs are longer than the ones in their left. Handedness has even been found in crows that use the right side of their beaks to make tools to catch insects. Humpback whales use either the right or left side of their jaw to catch fish, and seals prefer one flipper to beat eels out of the sand.
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When George W. Bush was running for president, he was asked about UFOs. “It’ll be the first thing he (Dick Cheney) will do,” Bush said. “He’ll get right on it.” But it hasn’t happened yet.
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Homeopathic remedies have been shown to work, although scientists don’t understand why. In homeopathy, remedies are diluted to the point where they often cannot even be detected. A homeopathic antidote for arsenic has been developed that could be inexpensively used in parts of India and Bangladesh where there is a widespread problem of arsenic in well water.
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