Low-level lead poisoning may be one cause of juvenile crime. A study of 194 young offenders tried in a Pennsylvania court found that the concentrations of lead in their bones was much higher than in non-delinquent teenagers. Researchers don’t know if the lead was the cause of the crimes, or if it’s just a symptom of the poor living conditions that led the person to become an offender.
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Your kids are already tired of their Christmas toys?what will you get them 10 years from now? In the future, your daughter won’t just change Barbie’s clothes, they’ll discuss what to wear together. A Disney dinosaur will tell your kid what life was like 300 million years ago. A character from “Toy Story” will watch the DVD with your kids and tell them how a particular scene was shot. Your children will no longer have any reason to use their imaginations at all.
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Jesus may have used a marijuana-based oil to help cure people with crippling diseases. The oil, used in the early Christian church, contained a marijuana extract called kaneh- bosem. Chris Bennett, who wrote an article about this for High Times magazine, says, “The medical use of cannabis during that time is supported by archaeological records. A recipe in Exodus for anointing oil contains over six pounds of kaneh-bosum. The ancient anointed ones were literally drenched in this potent mixture.”
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Bird Doo dropping onto an island near the Arctic could be putting radioactive isotopes into the food chain. Researchers think this is the explanation for the high levels of radioactivity they found in plants there. Birds get the radioactive material from fish that become radioactive due to nuclear waste dumping in the ocean. Also, radioactive material from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster has now reached the ocean, along with particles from nuclear weapons tests. It’s bad enough that it’s in the fish we eat, but now we know that birds are bringing radioactivity ashore.
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