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Music in the Brain
October 19, 2006Children 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
Global Warming: A Reprieve But No Sign We Will Use It
October 19, 2006We recently wrote about how a low level of sunspot activity may give us a reprieve when it comes to global warming, and now the oceans are cooling off as well. We now have a chance (if we take it)... continued
Brain Breakthrough
October 18, 2006New 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, 2006Scientists 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, 2006We 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, 2006Another 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, 2006While 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, 2006Chicago 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, 2006The 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, 2006There'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