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Huge UFO Wave in Canada
July 27, 2012UFO sightings in Canada neared a record high in 2011, of almost 1,000 sightings, at a rate of almost three per day. If it was happening here, would it be reported? The July 24th edition of the Sun News reports... continued
Gaydar is Instinctive
July 26, 2012Gaydar is the ability to "sense" whether or not someone is gay. While it can be used to reinforce a person's animosity towards homosexuals, it can also save someone time--it's no use flirting with someone of the other sex who... continued
Buried CO2 May Cause Quakes
July 26, 2012Burying carbon dioxide in the ground or even in the ocean has been proposed as one of the solutions to the greenhouse gas problem BUT there's evidence that it may lead to earthquakes. In Bloomberg News, Jim Efstathiou Jr. quotes... continued
The REAL Secret of Easter Island
July 26, 2012It's not those mysterious statues, it's something in the dirt that surrounds them. When researchers added rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout their life span, their learning and memory was enhanced when they were young and actually IMPROVED... continued
Greenland is Melting
July 26, 2012NASA satellites reveal that the surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area. NASA has been monitoring the Greenland melt for 30 years, and they're calling this one "unprecedented," partly because it's so... continued
Learn the Secret of Orenda
July 26, 2012You may think you've read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN'T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has just been published.... continued
Your Car Has a Black Box Too
July 25, 2012When investigators look through the wreckage of a crashed airplane, one of the first things they search for is the "black box" (which is actually painted orange), because it recorded what happened to the plane during its last half hour... continued
Bug Phones
July 25, 2012We know that plants communicate with "clicks." Now it turns out that the insects that live on these plants use the soil they grow in to leave "voicemail" messages with each other in the fungi in the soil. Insects can... continued
Overrun by Mice
July 24, 2012Think YOU'VE got mice? MILLIONS of field mice are overrunning farms in Germany, gobbling up crops and reducing yields by as much as 50%. It's the worst mouse plague in over 30 years. Getting birds of prey to hunt the... continued
US Drought Means World May Starve
July 24, 2012The US is going through the worst drought in half a century. Since we feed the world, this could lead to a global crisis as crop shortages push food prices up. The US supplies half the world's corn exports and... continued