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If You Can’t Trust WalMart – Who Can You Trust?

February 4, 2015
Not Target, not Walgreen, and not even GNC – according to the New York Attorney General’s office, which just issued a ‘cease and desist’ letter to all four major purveyors of nutritional supplements. According to a story in yesterday’s NY... continued

Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained

February 3, 2015
Publisher's Marketplace has just announced what promises to be a major new book from Whitley Strieber writing in collaboration with Jeffry J. Kripal, Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston. The Marketplace announcement reads: "Author of Communion Whitley... continued

Were Neanderthals Frozen Out?

February 3, 2015
It may have been the WEATHER that did them in. Researcher Julien Riel-Salvatore says, "It's been long believed that Neanderthals were outcompeted by fitter modern humans and they could not adapt. We are changing the main narrative. Neanderthals were just... continued

Weekender: A Skeptic’s Close Encounter on His Wedding Day

January 31, 2015
What happens when hardcore skeptics have an inexplicable encounter with the paranormal? Their eyes may open, their heart may soften, and their conviction in the rectitude of their own opinions may be forever shaken – providing they’re intellectually honest. The... continued

Divided We Stand – When All ‘Meshed’ Together

January 30, 2015
Now that we know that the ‘feeling of being watched’ is not a paranoid delusion, and that we actually are being watched all the time – even through the walls of our homes –isn’t it about time you built your... continued

Have Your Cake & Eat It, Too – With No Regrets or Repercussions!

January 29, 2015
Sound too good to be true? Well, actually it is – but virtually it’s not. And soon – Project Nourished plans to serve-up its multi-course fantasy fare at Pop-Up tastings in Los Angeles, California. This delicious idea began brewing over... continued

Personality Problems: Blame Your Cat

January 28, 2015
 In an earlier story, we reported that your cat may be passing on parasites to you, parasites that affect the way your brain works. Now this story has been confirmed by a new story suggesting that a "clever cat parasite... continued

The Age of the Cyborg is Upon Us

January 27, 2015
Doesn’t it strike you as odd – as science and technology continue to accelerate the pace at which the future overtakes the present and then quickly disappears into the past – that we still haven’t figured out Who we are,... continued

Weekend: Alien Life Forms Breeding Away in USC Labs

January 24, 2015
“Some of the best evidence for life in space lives right here on Earth: It’s weird, adaptable, and far hardier than we ever thought.” —Alissa Zhu Panspermia is the ancient idea that the seeds of life exist everywhere in the... continued

“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.”

January 23, 2015
The title of this news summary is a direct quote from Johann Hari, a man who grew up in a family of addicts. Hari undertook a 3-½ year, 30,000-mile journey to understand the causes of addiction and the failures of... continued