Summer Treats for Subscribers

June 21, 2012
We have LOADS of special treats for our subscribers right now. You have a coupon that gets you a beautiful, hardcover copy of Whitley's wonderful novel Hybrids for only $5 (it makes great beach reading).    PLUS you get to... continued

Insect-Eating Plants Becoming Vegetarian

June 20, 2012
It's not a matter of the plants making a moral choice, it's a result of too much rain. Scientists studying carnivorous plants in Swedish bogs found that the extra nitrogen deposited in the soil from rain reduced how many insects... continued

Elephants Travel Miles to Say Goodbye to Their Favorite Human

June 20, 2012
The Delight Makers Website reports that "For 12 hours, two herds of wild South African elephants slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.... continued

Drones May be Targeting YOU

June 20, 2012
It is the intention of the United States government to destroy privacy in America, and a big part of this evil is the planned deployment of 30,000 drones that will be able to monitor in detail the movement and activities... continued

Your Office is Loaded With Germs

June 19, 2012
Here's another way men and women are different: Men's offices have more bacteria than women's offices. Also, New York City offices have more germs in them that San Francisco offices (and what about the bathrooms?) This was discovered in a... continued

Pole Shift Steady–But Not for Long

June 19, 2012
Every 11 years, during the high point of the sun's activity cycle, the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely. Does this have any effect on the Earth (which has its own pole shift?) Space scientists agree that the switch... continued

Become Entangled and Travel Instantly From Place to Place

June 19, 2012
Will "Star Trek" type travel--teleportation--ever become possible? It's not yet possible for humans, but it IS possible with atomic particles which have become "entangled." Physicists first did this in 1997, using a single pair of entangled photons, or particles of... continued

This Was the Warmest Spring on Record

June 18, 2012
As the US experienced the warmest spring since records began to be kept in 1895, scientists warned that the planet could be reaching a tipping point beyond which temperatures will soar to disastrous heights, producing an epidemic of wildfires. Climatologist... continued

Early Man Loved Art

June 18, 2012
Cave paintings discovered in Spain in the 1870s have been dated using a new process and found to be 15,000 years older than thought. This makes them 41,000 years old, so old that they may have been made not by... continued

Human Growth Hormone Doesn’t Build Muscles

June 18, 2012
All those baseball players got in trouble for no reason: new research reveals that exercise-related testosterone and growth hormone do NOT play an influential role in building muscle after weightlifting, despite conventional wisdom suggesting otherwise. Bodybuilders--and professional athletes--who try to... continued