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Horror Movies Reveal Your Politics
June 8, 2009What does your reaction to The Blob reveal about you? Does your friend or partner avoid going to horror movies with you and duck when TV shows display lots of gore? If so, that may mean that, no matter what... continued
Maybe it WAS Terrorism
June 5, 2009We recently wrote a story about how the recent crash of an Air France jetliner looked suspiciously like it was shot down by a missile. This is the Critical Mass scenario, in Whitley Strieber's new novel, which postulates that terrorist... continued
Still Shooting Down UFOs!
June 5, 2009During the week of May 29, the British Royal Navy may have come close to firing on UFOs that were flying over the UK. This was leaked to the press by an "ex-military source." In the Register, Lewis Page quotes... continued
Why Do We Live the Way We Do?
June 4, 2009Why do so many people live in the suburbs? With gas prices set to rise again and the problems that automobiles cause with greenhouse gas emissions, city planners would like to lure more folks back to the cities, so they... continued
We Miss It if We Don’t Get Enough
June 4, 2009Women do, anyway - Women: Why does talking with a girlfriend make us feel so good? If we don't get enough "girl talk," feel deprived. A new study has identified a likely reason: feeling emotionally close to a friend increases... continued
Ring Tones
June 4, 2009If you want to be a safe driver, don't get a fancy ring tone for your cell phone. A new study shows that just the ring of a cell phone may be as distracting as talking on the phone while... continued
A New Kind of Terrorism?
June 3, 2009In the wake of the recent crash of an Air France plane into the Atlantic ocean during a flight from Brazil to Paris on June 1st, which killed almost250 people, it is interesting to note that a few days earlier,... continued
Bankruptcy May Not Help
June 3, 2009As GM goes under and more and more companies consider bankruptcy to deal with sky-high debt and an economy in recession, the question is: will this help the companies? Researcher Erik Lie thinks these moves might provide only limited help... continued
TV Violence
June 2, 2009Is that the way it really happens? - Researchers compared real homicide data to what we see on TV shows such as CSI. They wanted to find out if these shows presented real public health information and if they portrayed... continued
Weakest Sunspot Cycle in 80 Years
June 2, 2009Will the sun save us? Many 2012 prognosticators have been predicting a massive solar cycle in 2012, but the sun has been extremely quiet lately, and now NASA is predicting the weakest solar maximum since 1928, with a peak in... continued