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Anne’s Diary: Magic

July 17, 2006
Anne Strieber recently experienced magic while at the Magic Castle with a magician. But she's decided that friendship, especially with the psychics she's been meeting lately, is the most magical experience of all. NOTE: This news story, previously published on... continued

Kidney Sales?Are They Always Wrong?

July 16, 2006
We are born with two kidneys, so we have one "to spare." There is a thriving black market of business people in third world countries selling kidneys to people in the West who need them. There was even a movie,... continued

Good News: Beer is Better

July 14, 2006
If 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

Solar?Cooling?

July 14, 2006
We're used to thinking about solar heating, but in manyparts of the country, the big need is for solarcooling.Scientists are working on a thin-film technology that may dojust that. Researcher Steven Van Dessel and his team have installed atest structure... continued

Seed Saving in a Secret Vault

July 14, 2006
Norway has carved a deep vault into the side of a frozenmountain, in a secret location on an isolated Arctic island.This being Norway, it's not a hidden nuclear weapons cache,it contains?SEEDS. CNN reports that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault willeventually... continued

A Single Sentence That Sums Up a Life

July 14, 2006
UPDATES 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

We’re Controlled by Fear

July 13, 2006
Did 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

What are Cosmic Rays?

July 13, 2006
Cosmic 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

Food Shortages Ahead

July 13, 2006
World 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

Hallucinogens Bring Everyone the Same Visions

July 12, 2006
Several 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