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Think Better in a Foreign Language

May 24, 2012
Researchers have found that people are more likely to make rational decisions and take favorable risks when they think through a problem in a foreign language (of course, you need to be bilingual in order to do this, so study... continued

Alzheimer’s–WALK it Away?

May 24, 2012
Of 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, 2012
Don'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, 2012
Was 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, 2012
While 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, 2012
There 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, 2012
Which 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, 2012
Scientists 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, 2012
Attentiveness 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, 2012
Weed 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