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Does Your Personality Depend on Where You Live?
October 2, 2008Or is it inborn?or BOTH? - Researchers have defined 5 basic components of personality: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to new ideas and experiences (and love of pets?) These can be measured with questionnaires. In Newsweek, Sharon Begley reports... continued
Cancer School
October 2, 2008Can a classroom give you cancer? If it contains radiation left over from 100-year-old scientific experiments, it can. Ernest Rutherford was the first scientist to split the atom?and he may have been indirectly responsible for killing 4 people at a... continued
Math: How to Predict Who Will be Good at It
October 1, 2008Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten. Does this mean that math ability is... continued
Is Fake Grass Safe?
October 1, 2008And what if KIDS play on it? - Both baseball and football are moving to fake turf, since it needs less upkeep and always looks good on TV. But is it safe? Adding to the growing concerns over the health... continued
Soon EVERYBODY will be fat!
October 1, 2008According to a new study, roughly 86% of Americans age 18 and older may be overweight or obese by 2030 and related health care costs would double every decade and could reach $956.9 billion in 2030?1 of every 6 health... continued
Is CERN a Stargate?
September 30, 2008Dreamland host William Henry writes: "In 2004, I began reporting that the particle accelerator at CERN is a stargate. It fulfillsMayan and Messianic prophecy. This is based on my mythological profiling of the symbolism at CERN and the observations of... continued
The Surge: What REALLY Happened
September 30, 2008In her diary of August 21st, Anne Strieber writes: "Latelythere's been a great controversy about whether 'the surge'?which sent 28,000 more troops into Iraq a year ago? has 'worked' or not, with the US military and John McCain saying yes,... continued
Congress Risks Economic Catastrophe
September 30, 2008...as it secretly raises taxes - The US Congress yesterday defeated a seven hundred billion rescue passage for America's financial system even as it let stand the Alternative Minimum Tax, meaning that twenty three million Americans will pay an average... continued
Never Grow Old
September 29, 2008Is there a fountain of youth? Some researchers think that aging is an evolutionary adaptation that can be REVERSED. But the current prescription for living longer (eating less) may not work for everyone. In a blog posted on The Daily... continued
Cab Driver Brains
September 29, 2008Unlike cabbies in many other cities, London cab drivers are notorious for being able to find their way around in a VERY complex city! Researches think that they have developed the equivalent of a G.P.S. system in their brains. They... continued