Scientists at the University of Toronto are convinced that earthquakes, volcanoes, shifting continents and even climate change are driven by a type of heat engine working deep beneath the earth’s surface. They have developed a model of the inner workings of the earth that will help solve the mystery of why and how features on the surface of the planet are constantly changing.

“In effect, we have found that the solid earth is being churned by a four-piston heat engine with two immense sinking cold slabs and two equally large rising hot plumes,” says Alessandro Forte.

“We have discovered something grandiose in size and yet remarkably simple and symmetric,” adds co-researcher, Jerry Mitrovica.
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Along with many other radio programs, Dreamland’s internet feed has been suspended pending resolution of a financial dispute between the actors’ union AFTRA and the radio industry. The issue is one of how and if additional payment is to be made for internet transmission of commercials.

Premiere Radio Networks, which is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, has suspended most of its internet feeds pending resolution of the dispute. Clear Channel has suspended internet feeds on all eighty of its stations.

We regret this inconvenience to our internet listeners. If you want Dreamland on the radio in your area, send us the call letters of the station on which you listen to Coast to Coast AM and we will attempt to get Dreamland placed on your station.read more

Pathogens from the same plague that wiped out 30 percent of the world’s population in the 14th century have been found near Lake Meredith in Texas. One out of six flea samples taken from a nearby campground showed the plaguepathogen. The samples were screened at the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Suspicion was aroused when a nearby prairie dog town was completely wiped out. Chief Ranger Bill Briggs said a maintenance worker noticed the absence of the normal activity of the 50-100 prairie dogs. After digging at thesite, no carcasses or signs of the rodents could be found.
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If you have a cellphone, you soon will no longer be able to hide-the government will be able to track you down. Cellphone manufacturers are under a federal mandate to equip mobile phones with location-tracking devices,beginning this October. GPS chips will be planted in the handsets so that by 2005, 95 percent of all cellphones will be able to be traced with an accuracy of about 1,000 feet or better.

These cellphones could be lifesavers in an emergency, but there is the question of an invasion of privacy. “For most people, it’s a very scary proposition that the government can use not only your mobile phone but your Palm Pilots.and any other mobile device to track your every movement,” saysattorney Albert Gidari of Seattle.
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