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Eleven microbiologists have mysteriously died over the span of five months. Some of them were world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others were the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others were experts in bioterrorism.

The first three died in the space of just over a week in November. Benito Que, 52, was an expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. Police originally suspected that he had been beaten on November 12 in a carjacking in the medical school’s parking lot, although his body showed no signs of this. Doctors then began to suspect a stroke.
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An ancient computer virus has been turned into a nasty “double-infected” virus. Anti-virus software makers say some versions of the widespread computer virus Klez.h hides a mutation of a very destructive virus first seen in 1998 and known as Chernobyl or CIH. The Chernobyl virus variant automatically infects files and programs files on computers running Microsoft Windows.

“Klez is just another Windows program,” says Graham Cluley of the UK anti-virus firm Sophos. “[CIH] just infects the executable file, whereupon Klez then forwards itself around in a double infected state.”
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Swirled News is proud to present, as far as we are aware, the very first review anywhere of the forthcoming Mel Gibson movie ?Signs,? which involves crop circles. Through genuinely staggering chance, some US correspondents of ours were able to attend a preview screening. As for the film itself, the, er, signs, perhaps predictably, are not good?

At unknowncountry.com, we probably would have supported the movie no matter how good or bad it was, simply because it will get the word out that crop circles exist. But evil aliens? The public is more sophisticated than that. We have real questions, and we?re looking for real answers, but Hollywood apparently isn?t even going to try to give them to us.
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Wouldn?t you know it?they say the good die young, but it turns out the happy may too. Scientists have discovered that mildly depressed older women tend to live longer than those who are not depressed at all.

This is contrary to most other studies on the link between depression and mortality, which have shown that depression increases the likelihood of death within a certain time period. ?This is totally counterintuitive to what you expect to see,? says Dan G. Blazer, a Duke University professor of psychiatry and behavioral science. ?We know that depression in younger populations is very clearly associated with mortality. It?s not so clear in older populations.?
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