2019-03-01
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Amazon Fires & African Drought Affect Us Here in the US
October 20, 2005A vast drought threatens to kill the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, and as it dries up and becomes a tinder box, the likelihood of devastating fires predicted in Whitley Strieber's 1984 book Nature's End become greater and greater. Scientists... continued
Gargling With Water: All You Need to Fight a Cold
October 20, 2005Newswise - Daily gargling with plain water will ward off colds. You don't even need to gargle with a disinfectant mouthwash. Just in time for the cold and flu season, Japanese researcher Dr. Kazunari Satomura has discovered that the common... continued
Graham Hancock at Conference in US in November
October 20, 2005British author Graham Hancock, author of Talisman, Underworld, Heaven's Mirror, Fingerprints of the Gods and, most recently, Supernatural will be speaking at the 2nd Annual Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge that will take place November 11-12 at the Hilton... continued
CIA Goes Green
October 19, 2005The government is using our tax dollars to research self-propelled cars and edible space rovers, neither of which will be of much use to the average person. But the CIA is working on a generator that produces electricity with no... continued
High Carb or Low Carb? How to Eat
October 19, 2005We get so much conflicting advice about the right way to eat these days, and here?s more of it: some researchers say we should forget Atkins and return to a high-carb diet, while others says that a high-protein diet helps... continued
Wilma Most Powerful Ever: Florida Threatened
October 19, 2005Hurricane Wilma has become the most powerful AtlanticHurricane ever recorded, and it appears poised to strikeFlorida. The storm is likely to come ashore with 165 MPHwinds on Florida' south coast, and roll up the state'seastern shore, declining from a Category... continued
Marijuana is Brain Food
October 19, 2005Scientists have discovered that marijuana doesn?t just get you "high," it actually stimulates brain growth. They want to find a way to use it to treat anxiety and depression, since some scientists believe that depression can begin when too few... continued
Wilma Grows at Record Speed
October 19, 2005Hurricane Wilma grew with unprecedented speed on Tuesday,moving from Category 2 to Category 4 in an hour, then toCategory 5 in another 2 hours. This massive storm now hassustained winds of 175 miles an hour, andappears to contain the lowest... continued
Mission to Venus Will Help Defeat Global Warming
October 18, 2005We want to go to Mars to look for life and to perhaps establish a colony there, but why would anyone want to travel to hot, gaseous Venus? Astronomers think that Venus was once just like the Earth?before it experienced... continued
Silver Bullet for Bird Flu
October 18, 2005The Journal of Nanotechnology reports that silver nanoparticles kill HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, and will probably kill other viruses as well, including the virus that causes bird flu. But it's still not known how, if these extremely tiny... continued