To see an image of the new ?eclipse? crop circle,click here. Michael Glickman will be on Dreamland June 1st to talk about crop circles and their meanings.
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A giant fossilized footprint has been found in the Cleveland National Forest in California, suggesting that Bigfoot may have once lived in the nearby mountains. To see the print, it?s necessary to climb more than a thousand feet up a rugged mountain. “I go out of my way to make a slip trail where nobody else has been and I was actually looking for gold,” says James Snyder, who discovered the footprint in February.
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Married men who spend time with their wives and kids have lower testosterone levels than bachelors. The discovery suggests that having less of the hormone could play a part in encouraging men to devote their energies to the family rather than looking for another partner.
In male birds from monogamous species, testosterone levels fall after they form a pair and start taking care of their young. Artificially raising levels of testosterone is known to cause the males to stray. This suggests that testosterone boosts competition for mates while lower levels encourage fatherly behavior.
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Fears that the infectious prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease could be present in chicken fillets have been raised after bovine (cow) protein was found in breast fillets tested by the Irish Food Safety Authority (FSAI). The tests were done after a report by the U.K. Food Standards Agency warned that pig proteins had been used to increase the weight of chicken from Holland and Belgium. DNA tests on 30 chicken samples revealed that 17 contained bovine DNA, porcine (pig) DNA or both.
Peter Smith, chairman of SEAC, the English advisory body on BSE and its human form vCJD, says, “If the source of the bovine material was fit for human consumption under EU regulations, then these findings pose no significant health risk. The problem is we don’t know.”
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