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The new lie detector, the Silent Talker, could detect terrorists at airports by simply asking them a few questions. It uses artificial intelligence to monitor the tiny facial movements of the people it’s testing and is more accurate than traditional polygraphs. If it proves accurate enough, its results might be accepted in courtrooms, unlike current polygraph tests. During the next election, we could use it to question politicians during Presidential debates. It could also be used to question people who claim to be UFO abductees, and if they passed the test, maybe they’d finally get some respect.
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They traveled all the way from England and are filled with beautiful, full-color photos of crop circles taken by crop circle researcher Lucy Pringle. This is one of our most popular items and it sold out during Christmas. Now it?s back, just in time for February. Your favorite vampire is back in stock too, and every book is signed.

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Now that the Superbowl is over and baseball season will arrive soon, a new study finds that switching to a new stadium can have a dramatically bad effect on a team’s performance, because it reduces players’ testosterone levels. “It’ll probably cost you a couple of points in a season, and in some sports, that’s the difference between winning and second place,” says statistician Richard Pollard.

He studied results of professional baseball, basketball and ice hockey games in the U.S. between 1987 and 2000 and found that teams that moved to new stadiums lost about 24% of their home advantage.
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Most states now have lotteries and some countries, like France and Spain, have had them for centuries. Russian astrophysicist Mark Zilberman realized that numerical lotteries are a perfect way to measure the degree of ESP in a random population, because millions of tickets are sold randomly every week and results are published independently. The experiment covers many years and the participants are not selected for ESP ability but are a random cross section of the population. He found one surprising result–ESP goes down as sunspots increase.
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