2019-03-01
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Alzheimer’s–WALK it Away?
May 24, 2012Of all the millions of animals on Earth, only humans get Alzheimer's disease, which is caused by the formation of metallic "plaques" in the brain, particularly iron ones. This may be because this dreaded disease somehow facilitated human evolution. But... continued
Early Man Lived Among Giants
May 23, 2012Don't believe "creationists" when they tell you that early man cavorted with dinosaurs--the big lizards died off millions of years before we came along. But a new study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence that when humans... continued
The Moon Earth Machine
May 23, 2012Was the perfectly functioning "Earth-Moon machine" a design, or an accident? Here's something you didn't learn in school: Whichever one it was, a new chemical analysis of the lunar material titanium collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with... continued
How to Predict Your Future
May 23, 2012While we can't all be clairvoyant, neuroscientists who are able to "watch" our brains in action with fMRI machines have determined that activity in a region of the brain associated with reward can predict who will gain weight or have... continued
Subscribe by May 31 and Get the Path for Ten Dollars Off!
May 22, 2012There is a coupon in the Unknowncountry.com subscriber section offering $10.00 off the physical edition of Whitley Strieber's beautiful Tarot book, the Path. This takes the price down to just 95 cents. The Path is unique in the world. There... continued
Size Matters: Smaller is Sometimes Better
May 22, 2012Which is better: The large agribusinesses that seem to be taking over the world (and killing off the bees) or small, (often organic) local farmers? AND sociologists say that small businesses, unlike chain retail "big box" stores and large manufacturing... continued
Gravity: The Key to Leaving the Earth
May 22, 2012Scientists are working hard to understand gravity--which is the key to future space travel. When it comes to this subject, they think that Albert Einstein was absolutely right--and completely wrong. In the Guardian, Robin McKie quotes psysicist Harald Luck as... continued
Everything I Need to Know (I Learned in Kindergarten)
May 21, 2012Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children. Elementary school teachers made observations of attention skills in over a thousand kindergarten children, then later, when these kids were in grades 1 to 6, their homeroom... continued
Monsanto Guilty of Poisoning French Farmer
May 21, 2012Weed killers are killing us: Monsanto, the creator of pesticide resistant seeds--such as StarLink corn--has been found guilty in a court in France of poisoning a French farmer after he accidentally inhaled fumes from its weed killer 8 years ago.... continued
Does Fracking Cause Asthma?
May 21, 2012Asthma used to be mainly an urban problem, but now it's become an epidemic in the countryside--this could be due to Fracking. Fracking may lead to earthquakes, but does it also lead to asthma? The air pollutants associated with gas... continued