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Drinking Drugs With Our Water

September 1, 2004
We've written before about how prescription drugs aregetting into water supplies. It's recently been discoveredthat water in London is tainted with Prozac. How well do ourwater treatment plants get rid of these drugs? Wastewater treatment plants that use a combination... continued

Did Mozart Have Tourette’s?

September 1, 2004
In the film "Amadeus," actor Tom Hulce played Mozart as atwitchy character who was sometimes out of control. Now a TVdocumentary in the U.K. suggests that Mozart had theobsessive compulsive disorder called Tourette's syndrome. British composer James McConnel, who also... continued

A Good Home to Grow Up In

September 1, 2004
If you want your child's lungs and brain to develop in theright way, your home must be quiet, peaceful?and not tooclean. Researchers Stephen Petrill and Robert Plomin collected theresults of intelligence tests on children and found thatgrowing up in a... continued

Lost Tomb Found?But We’ll Never See It

August 31, 2004
The mummy of King Cheops (also known as Khufu) is supposedto be inside the Great Pyramid, but it's never been foundand it's been assumed it was stolen by grave robbers, alongwith the gold and jewels entombed with it. But now,... continued

Path IV Now Available

August 31, 2004
Those of you who are following the summer of ThePath will be glad to know that Whitley's new Path talk hasjust been posted on our website. Anyone can listen byclicking "Dreamland" on our masthead and scrolling down tothe bottom. In... continued

U.S. Government Finally Faces Facts

August 31, 2004
A new government report calledOurChanging Planet says people are responsible for the globalwarming of the past 30 years. This idea has long beenaccepted by scientists, but has been resisted by bigbusiness interests in the White House who don't want toforce... continued

Canada Crop Circles Getting Complex

August 31, 2004
Crop Circle Research of Canada is beginning to report thekind of complex circles that used to be seen only in theU.K. In Canada, these formations started out as simplecircles and have advanced in complexity every year. One ofthese formations had... continued

Fewer Lobsters, Except in Maine

August 31, 2004
Butterfliesand birds aremissing from some areas and turning up in others?and now thesame thing is happening with lobsters. There are fewerlobsters than there used to be everywhere along the EastCoast except Maine, where there are more lobsters than everbefore. Scientists... continued

It’s Official: Life Likely on Mars

August 30, 2004
Methane has been discovered on Mars, meaning life must bethere as well.Linda Howe wasone of the first journalists to report this news, on ourJune 12 Dreamland show. Now it's official: the Mars Express,the European Space Agency probe which is orbiting... continued

Making Plans for a Killer Flu

August 30, 2004
A killer strain of flu, like the kind that wiped outmillions of people in 1918, hasn't struck again yet, butscientists are already planning for it. Health experts saywe may have to close schools, restrict travel and rationmedicine if a powerful... continued