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People are bad at spotting liars because they look for the wrong signals. “People are really dreadful at detecting when someone is lying,” says Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. “They think that liars avoid eye contact and fidget a lot. In fact, liars maintain more eye contact and they don’t fidget.

“What you should do is look to see if there are long pauses between the questions you ask and the answers people give,” he says. Other indicators include the use of short sentences, and any errors in the person’s speech. Lack of movement can also be a clue that the person is lying. Wiseman doesn?t think polygraph machines are accurate and says, “They detect when someone is stressed, not necessarily when they are lying.”
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The Earth may once have been surrounded by rings, like Saturn, which would have cast a shadow on parts of the planet all day long. The rings could have been formed after a glancing blow from an asteroid, when a space rock carves debris from a planet, then bounces off into the atmosphere. The resulting debris would also have shot off into space, and some of it would have ended up orbiting the Earth, forming a ring.

Peter Fawcett of the University of New Mexico and Mark Boslough of Sandia Labs say the debris ring would have cooled the planet by blocking or reducing the amount of sunlight it received in the tropics and subtropics. The rest of the planet would cool down too, because less heat would be transported from tropical regions to higher latitudes.
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Despite Saddam Hussein’s offer to let UN inspectors back into Iraq, the U.S. may not back down, so we may go to war with Iraq anyway. Saddam can afford to fight back: he gets his hands on as much as $3 billion a year, which he uses to maintain and develop weapons of mass destruction, despite UN sanctions imposed in the early 1990s. The funds come from oil smuggling and surcharges on the oil Iraq is allowed to sell under UN auspices.
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In his latest Journal, Whitley Strieber writes about his own personal experience fighting off psychic attacks, with the help of Australian author Robert Bruce. He speculates about cattle?and perhaps human?mutilations, here and abroad, and addresses the question of the man in Pennsylvania who may have been murdered by a UFO. Whitley tells about revelations from U.K. author Nick Cook about free energy and anti-gravity devices, which help to explain so much that has been kept secret for so long. He writes, ?Whatever the visitors are?and I am by no means am certain that they?re aliens in the conventional sense of that word?I believe that their primary interest in us involves the soul.? To read this extraordinary Journal,click here. You won?t soon forget it.
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