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It’s Safe to Eat Potato Chips Again!

January 31, 2003
About a year ago, we received the depressing news that high levels of a chemical found in the foods we love to eat, like potato chips, french fries and bread, raises the risk of getting cancer. Acrylamide is a cancer-causing... continued

New Lie Detector Can’t be Fooled

January 31, 2003
The new lie detector, the Silent Talker, could detect terrorists at airports by simply asking them a few questions. It uses artificial intelligence to monitor the tiny facial movements of the people it's testing and is more accurate than traditional... continued

2003 Crop Circle Calendar is Back!

January 31, 2003
They traveled all the way from England and are filled with beautiful, full-color photos of crop circles taken by crop circle researcher Lucy Pringle. This is one of our most popular items and it sold out during Christmas. Now it?s... continued

Bad News About New Stadiums

January 30, 2003
Now that the Superbowl is over and baseball season will arrive soon, a new study finds that switching to a new stadium can have a dramatically bad effect on a team's performance, because it reduces players' testosterone levels. "It'll probably... continued

Lottery Influenced by Sunspots

January 30, 2003
Most states now have lotteries and some countries, like France and Spain, have had them for centuries. Russian astrophysicist Mark Zilberman realized that numerical lotteries are a perfect way to measure the degree of ESP in a random population, because... continued

Allergies Transplanted Along with Liver

January 30, 2003
A 60-year-old Australian man received a liver transplant from a 15-year-old boy who died of anaphylactic shock after eating a peanut. Now the organ recipient has also developed a life-threatening allergy to nuts. Despite having no history of nut allergy,... continued

Clone Case Closed

January 29, 2003
Florida was all set to take Clonaid to court for endangering a baby?s health by cloning it. But there's no chance of that now, since Clonaid's chief executive, Brigitte Boisselier, testified under oath that the baby, named Eve, is living... continued

Crop Circles in Canada Too!

January 29, 2003
In our newest Insight, Paul Anderson, of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, tells about the strange experiences of a CCRN team that recently inspected cornfields where two crop circles were formed during 2002. Dowsing rods went crazy, strange lights... continued

And Here’s the Solution

January 28, 2003
A drug can probably be developed that will let us eat as much as we want and not gain weight. It will also protect us from type 2 diabetes, which is related to weight gain. Dr. Ronald Kahn studied mice... continued

Here’s the Problem?

January 28, 2003
Doctors can't figure out why Americans keep getting fatter, but Harvard economists can. The obesity crisis is the first time the classic economic model has been proved wrong, because in this case, increases in convenience and efficiency haven't benefited society.... continued