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Something Fishy

December 21, 2007
Most of us aren't planning to serve fish for Christmas dinner and that's a good thing, since fishermen are having trouble catching enough of it to put on our tables. That's not just because of overfishing, it has to do... continued

New Anne’s Diary: Spies

December 20, 2007
Anne Strieber has written a new diary about?spies. She says, "Over the years, I've been amused by the fact that we are spied on from time to time. These spies seem to be from government agencies?either foreign or domestic?and they... continued

Slaves

December 20, 2007
The Master of the Key said that in order to fulfill our desire for cheap consumer goods, we in the West each have 5 slaves. Most Americans would be surprised to realize that in the UK, farm and fast food... continued

Is There Life on Mars? (Cont.)

December 20, 2007
The controversy about life on Mars continues, but finding water would provide strong evidence that bacterial life exists there. Now a glacier that is thousands of years old has been spotted on the planet. Mars and Earth have a "close... continued

Artificial Life Will be Created Soon

December 19, 2007
Genetically-modified foods and cloning started the ball rolling and there's no stopping it now: artificial life is on the way. In the December 17th edition of the Washington Post, Rick Weiss reports that "researchers are poised to cross a dramatic... continued

Fuel from Anything

December 19, 2007
What if you could feed your discarded junk into one end of a machine and get oil and natural gas out of the other? This would solve two problems at once. One inventor claims he has created a machine that... continued

GM Foods Kill Rats

December 18, 2007
We've reported before that animals can't survive on genetically-modified food. Now a new study from Australia shows that GM food KILLS rats. In the December 5th edition of the Herald Sun, Jeffrey Smith reports that almost 10 years ago, researcher... continued

What’s in a Name?

December 18, 2007
We've talked about the power of words. Now we want to tell you about the power of names?why people with some names succeed, while people with other names fail. In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson quotes researcher Joseph Simmons as saying, "People... continued

Politically Negative

December 17, 2007
Once the presidential candidates are finally chosen, we're all bracing ourselves for the negative TV advertising that we hate so much. Why do political parties place these ads? The reason is simple: they work. With one study predicting an unprecedented... continued

Out of the Past

December 17, 2007
Global Warming isn't just happening now?it's happened in the past, as well. Is there anything we can learn from those times that will help us today? In New Scientist, Fred Pearce writes, "It was the biggest climate event of the... continued