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A Single Sentence That Sums Up a Life
July 14, 2006UPDATES COMING IN - Anne has discovered that sometimes you hear a single sentence that sums up a person's whole life, and gives us some of her favorite ones. She asks you to please send her your own examples to... continued
Good News: Beer is Better
July 14, 2006If food pricesgo up, many people may have to switch from wine and hardliquor to beer. But this may not be a problem, becausecontrary to popular opinion, beer is as healthy?if not morehealthy?than wine. Charles Bamforth, who holds a teaching... continued
Food Shortages Ahead
July 13, 2006World food crops are in trouble, and continued drought across much of the US is causing harvests to decline and food prices to rise. Is there a food shortage in the world's future, even in the affluent West? Howard Harris... continued
What are Cosmic Rays?
July 13, 2006Cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles in the universe, are being sent to earth from someplace beyond our galaxy and no one can figure out where they're coming from. Ronald Kotulak reports in the Chicago Tribune that an international group of... continued
We’re Controlled by Fear
July 13, 2006Did the US government use 911 as an excuse to launch a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to scare the American people into giving up their civil liberties, as well as supporting the war in Iraq? Arizona legal scholar David Altheide... continued
Lies About 911 Exposed in Europe
July 12, 2006Kim Bredesen writes in the July 1st Norwegian edition of the French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique that the 911 twin towers collapse may have been a case of controlled demolition, as well as an attack that we knew about long... continued
Hallucinogens Bring Everyone the Same Visions
July 12, 2006Several years ago, we interviewed Rick Strassman on Dreamland about his book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule." He's a University of New Mexico scientist who was given the first official government grant to do research on hallucinogenic drugs. He reported that... continued
Major CA Quake on the Way
July 12, 2006Is California prepared for a major earthquake? Seismologists say the "big one" is on the way, and this time it will hit Los Angeles. Yuri Fialko of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who is investigating the San Andreas Fault, has produced... continued
Looking Too Black
July 11, 2006Black people complain of being of being stopped for "DWB" (driving while black). Law enforcement people dispute these claims. But it turns out that when the victims are white, jurors are more likely to hand down death sentences to defendants... continued
Cracking the Spelling Code
July 11, 2006When people in other countries speak English, they usually translate it directly from their own language, which can lead to some strange sentences. The spelling of the UK and American versions of the English language diverged some time ago, when... continued