One day we may be able to use weather satellites to analyze signals from within the Earth that predict an upcoming earthquake. We may also be able to explain the strange pre-earthquake behavior of weather, radio transmissions, animals and even people. But many seismologists believe that predicting individual earthquakes early enough to permit a planned evacuation is unrealistic.
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Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, Florida will be the first company to sell microchips that are designed to be implanted into human beings for medical monitoring and I.D. screening.
The idea of implantable chips has been denounced by those who fear they will be used by a totalitarian state. But the recent terrorism is changing people?s minds. ?The bottom line is, when people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they?re more open to new approaches,? says Keith Bolton, Applied Digital?s chief technology officer.
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The man who tried to blow up an American airplane has been identified as Richard Reid, age 28, a small-time British criminal. He was identified by British police from fingerprints sent by the FBI. He was born in southeast London in 1973. His mother Lesley is English and his father Colvin is Jamaican.
He belonged to a mosque in a poor area of London that was also attended by one of the suspected terrorists behind the September 11 attacks. His mother came to the mosque looking for her son several months ago after he went to Pakistan and stopped communicating with his family
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After years of ridicule and denial, scientists and doctors are finally beginning to take near death experiences (NDEs) seriously, as shown by a report in the December 15 issue of the respected English medical journal The Lancet.
In a recent study conducted in the Netherlands, Dr. Pim van Lommel and colleagues studied 62 patients who said they had a near-death experience after going into cardiac arrest. They found that factors such as medication and the duration of unconsciousness did not explain the phenomenon. ?Our results show that medical factors cannot account for occurrence of near-death experiences,? says van Lommel.
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