2019-03-01
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Huge Meteorite Found in Kansas
November 9, 2006Scientists recently dug up a 154-pound meteorite that had been buried 4 feet deep in a Kansas wheat field. They located the meteorite by using radar technology that NASA someday hopes to use on Mars. Roxana Hegeman writes in LiveScience.com... continued
Polluted Kids
November 9, 2006We're not only polluting the earth: In the process, we're polluting our children. Scientists think that pollution may be the cause of disabilities and diseases like Parkinson's, autism, attention deficit disorder and cerebral palsy. Jeremy Laurance writes in the Independent... continued
Americans Leaving Home for Affordable Surgery
November 9, 2006According to the National Coalition on Health Care, about half a million Americans traveled overseas last year to have surgery that costs two to three times more in the US. The ironic name for this is "medical tourism." In News... continued
Bring the Green Man into YOUR Life
November 9, 2006A year after an aneurysm suddenly burst inside her brain, almost killing her, Anne Strieber had a revelation about the Green Man. On the two-year anniversary of her near-death experience, she wrote about becoming an ambassador for the Green Man.... continued
Fruit is Fine but Vegetables are Better
November 8, 2006New research shows that eating vegetables, not fruit, helps keep us mentally alert as we age, BUT another study shows that eating strawberries is good for our memory. In determining whether there was an association between eating vegetables and fruit... continued
Did Dolphins Once Walk on Land?
November 8, 2006We have recently reported that both dolphins and elephants may be self-aware beings, like humans. Scientists think that dolphins and whales, which live in the water despite breathing air, evolved onto land, but then RETURNED to the water, because they... continued
Military Discovers 40-Year-Old UFO
November 8, 2006Archivists for the New Zealand Naval Museum have uncovered a forty year old photograph taken from the deck of HMNZS Royalist during Waitangi Day celebrations in 1965 that shows a saucer shaped object in the sky ahead of the ship.... continued
Why We’re Partly to Blame for Saddam
November 7, 2006In a devastating article in the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk writes that Saddam Hussein, who has just been sentenced to death for his war crimes, committed these crimes when he was "Washington's best friend in the Arab world."... continued
Did Your Vote Count?
November 7, 2006Many of the paperless computerized voting systems adopted in wake of the "hanging chad" presidential election controversy in 2000 have the potential to create more problems than they solve, especially since the recent discovery that a Diebold voting machine can... continued
What Stinks?
November 6, 2006Here at unknowncountry.com, we sometimes like to investigate strange smells. Scientists are people who like to ask questions about things that the rest of us take for granted?like WHY do things start to smell when they decay? Microbes compete with... continued