Music in the Brain

October 19, 2006
Children with Williams syndrome, a rare form of autism, love music and will spend hours listening to it. This is further evidence that the ability to compose and appreciate music lies in one specific portion of the brain. We already... continued

Brain Breakthrough

October 18, 2006
New technology is allowing people who are paralyzed, due to accidents or to diseases like ALS (the condition that quantum physicist Stephen Hawking has), to operate computers using only their brains. A fourteen-year-old boy with epilepsy has learned to play... continued

Why Bird Flu is Such a Threat

October 18, 2006
Scientists who are warning us about a possible bird flu epidemic are comparing it with the 1918 Spanish flu influenza epidemic which killed somewhere between 40 and 100 million people worldwide during the 18 months it lasted. Researchers are analyzing... continued

Dangerous Diet Drink

October 18, 2006
We recently wrote about how drinking cola?whether regular, diet or decaf?is dangerous for women. Now the Coca-Cola company is launching a new brand of cola that is even more dangerous, because it's essentially speed in a bottle! Andrew Gumbel in... continued

The Hum is Back

October 17, 2006
Another mystery hum is driving people nuts, and this time it's in New Zealand?and, yet again, the locals have no idea that this is a worldwide phenomenon. Massey University researchers are investigating an unexplained hum that hundreds of people are... continued

Autumn Leaves: Red Means Danger

October 17, 2006
While scientists understand why the leaves on trees turn yellow and orange in the fall, they DON'T understand why some of them turn red, but they do know that it can be a sign of danger for the tree. Cory... continued

The REAL State of US Race Relations

October 17, 2006
Chicago sociologist Walter Benn Michaels thinks the racial divide is REALLY based on money?who has it, and who doesn't. He says, "We love race?we love identity?because we don't love class. We love thinking that the differences that divide us are... continued

New 911 Poll: We’re Not Hearing the Truth

October 16, 2006
The Angus-Reid poll organization reports that a large percentage of the US population thinks that the government is NOT telling the truth about what happened on 911, as Jim Marrs reveals in his dynamic new book The Terror Conspiracy. 53%... continued

Devastating Death Toll

October 16, 2006
There's a devastating new report about the Iraq war?not in the mainstream media or in a political book, but in the British medical journal The Lancet. It says that over 650,000 people have died in the last 3 years in... continued

An Ambassador for the Green Man

October 16, 2006
UPDATE from Loren Coleman - In Anne's new diary she writes, "A year ago I wrote a diary that has comforted many bereaved people, called My Adventures With the Green Man. Since it has now been exactly TWO years since... continued