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A Drug That May Prevent Alzheirmer’s

July 30, 2012
If we can't walk it away, what will we do? Some 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer's, and the numbers are expected to swell as the baby boom generation ages. Some very important drug trials are going on right now: people... continued

How Much Do Our Dogs Care About Us?

July 30, 2012
Sometimes dogs seem to be sent from heaven to be our friends, but is their empathy with us all in OUR minds? Dogs and man have evolved together for the past 15,000 years. Researcher Deborah Custance wanted find out how... continued

Prehistoric Brains in Modern Bodies

July 30, 2012
Our bodies may be modern, but our BRAINS are still prehistoric--at least according to one researcher, who says that our minds, bodies, businesses, governments, and social institutions are no longer capable of coping with the rapid rate of change in... continued

Learn the Secret of Orenda

July 28, 2012
You 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 never been published--until... continued

Freaks and Geeks

July 27, 2012
In 1968, a comedy called "The Odd Couple," starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, told the story of two divorced men, Felix Ungar (a neurotic neatfreak) and Oscar Madison (a fun-loving slob) who decide to live together. This is a... continued

Stay Away From the Pigs at the County Fair

July 27, 2012
If you can get Legionnaire's Disease from just walking past a hot tub, you can get the flu from looking at the pigs at a county fair--and some people did. The CDC reports that four people attending an Indiana county... continued

Huge UFO Wave in Canada

July 27, 2012
UFO 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, 2012
Gaydar 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, 2012
Burying 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, 2012
It'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