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Blue Dye Means They’ll Walk Again
July 31, 2009The common food additive that gives M&Ms and Gatorade their blue tint may offer promise for preventing the serious additional damage that immediately follows a traumatic injury to the spinal cord. Maybe the lame really will get up and walk... continued
How to be Healthy
July 30, 2009Get married & STAY married! - A stable long-term marriage can be good for your health, but divorce or widowhood leaves a lasting scar on the health of middle-aged and older people, according to a new study. Remarriage seems to... continued
Athletes Bigger Than Ever
July 30, 2009Due to doping? We soon won't be able to find out - Athletic superstars, in all sports, are getting bigger and bigger. And if they take drugs to increase their muscle size and strength, it will may become impossible to... continued
Who’s Happy?
July 30, 2009An easy way to tell - Social scientists have a hard time trying to measure happiness. Surveys have revealed some useful information, but these are plagued by the fact that people misreport and misremember their feelings. But what if you... continued
If Oil is Not Organic
July 29, 2009we don't need to ever run out of gas - The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died (or did it?), were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in... continued
Diet Books Will Soon be Rewritten!
July 29, 2009Because there is a NEW WAY to count calories - Maybe one of the reasons some of us are so fat is because we measure calories the wrong way. Calorie counts are created by incinerating food, but we don't burn... continued
Two Surprising Events
July 28, 2009A new Anne's Diary! - Anne's new diary ties together a couple of recent events in the lives of the Striebers: attending Comic-Con on behalf of The Nye Incidents as well as meeting Dr. Jack Turner (and NOT meeting Dr.... continued
Spectacular UFO Display in Strieber Town
July 28, 2009...or is it a fake?? - Has someone been calling them again? Spectacular UFOs have been seen over Santa Monica (or created digitally to seem as if they appearedover the Santa Monica beach). To see them yourself, click here. Anne... continued
Something You Use All the Time
July 27, 2009...doesn't really work! - Placebos are a sham, but the kind that doctors and researchers use. They're usually mere sugar pills in disguise, which are used in a clinical treatment study. The effectiveness of the actual medication is compared with... continued
The Strangest Plant on Earth
July 27, 2009We once heard that the strange fly-eating plant called the Venus Flytrap was found in an area where a meteorite hit, but this turns out not to be true: it's simply a case of evolution.The Flytrap is a plant that... continued