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A 19-Year-Old Looks at Life

December 17, 2002
A 19-year-old girl who wishes to remain anonymous has constructed a picture essay?with captions?that says a lot about life in the United States. Don?t miss it! NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links... continued

Cannibals Still Around

December 17, 2002
Cannibalism may seem like a thing of the past, but it's still going on. In Germany, an apparently respectable middle class software designer ate a microchip engineer. The police caught him after he tried to find a new victim on... continued

We’re Controlled While We Shop

December 17, 2002
Since most of us are doing our Christmas shopping this week, we should know that stores are subtly influencing our purchases. In a store called Once Famous, researchers study customers from behind one-way mirrors?but they?re not looking for shoplifters. While... continued

Without the Moon, We’d be Dead as Dinos

December 17, 2002
There are not nearly enough craters on Earth for the large number of asteroids that impact us every year. Over the past 250 million years, Earth should have been hit around 440 times by asteroids larger than a mile across.... continued

Welcome to the UFO Bar

December 17, 2002
The patrons of Benson's Hide-A-Way near Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin aren?t afraid to talk about their UFO sightings, abductions or missing time experiences. Owner Bill Benson says, "The reason we started the UFO thing was people had this... continued

New ET Search

December 17, 2002
Astronomers around the world have searched the skies for ET using data from radio telescopes, looking for signals from another civilization. Now Nobel laureate Charles Townes thinks we should return to the old-fashioned method of looking through telescopes because bright... continued

What Makes Music Unforgettable?

December 17, 2002
What makes a song stick in your head, and why does a wrongly played note sound so awful? New research shows the brain has specific structures that are designed to perceive and remember musical patterns. This area of the brain... continued

More Storms Ahead

December 15, 2002
The ice and snow storms that shut down parts of the U.S. may not be over yet?there may be more to come, due to an El Nino in the Pacific Ocean. "El Nino is one of the driving forces behind... continued

Smallpox Vaccine Can be Deadly

December 15, 2002
Smallpox is the worst disease known to man?it killed half a billion people from 1880 to 1980, before it was finally eradicated in 1980. But the smallpox vaccine can be deadly too, and that's the problem we face today. Scientists... continued

Pigs Stalk the Countryside

December 15, 2002
For years, residents in parts of England have cowered behind their doors at night, because Big Cats stalk the countryside. Now it's pigs in New Jersey. For weeks, residents there have seen a mysterious 600 pound pig walking the streets.... continued