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Why You Should Love Weeds
June 22, 2004Weeds may be unwanted, but they're more valuable than you think. Anthropologist Richard Steep says, "If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn't be the forest. There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside... continued
New Bug in Town
June 22, 2004One sign that the world is warming up is when insects that normally live in the south start arriving in areas with colder climates. This is happening already in the U.K., where the stink bug?familiar in the American South?is now... continued
Is There a Perfect Fuel?
June 22, 2004Cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells look like they could bring us clear skies tomorrow, because we'd no longer have to worry about either CO2 emissions or an oil shortage. Major oil producers don't want to be left out, so... continued
Crop Circle Creation Seen 50 Years Ago
June 21, 2004Crop circles aren't new and people have been seeing them made (and not by other people, either) for over 50 years. Alec Randall of Wiltshire, England describes looking into a field with his girlfriend in 1955 and seeing a "distortion... continued
Bigfoot Spotted in the Yukon, Hiding in Sumatra
June 21, 2004In the Yukon village of Teslin, Bigfoot has been seen at a construction site near the airport. Conservation Officer Dave Bakica says the two people who saw it "claim they thought it was a person standing beside the road, but... continued
Oil Man Worries Too
June 21, 2004The head of one of the world's biggest oil companies admits that the threat of climate change makes him "really very worried for the planet." Ron Oxburgh, the chairman of Shell, says, "No one can be comfortable at the prospect... continued
Only 25 Zeta Reticuli Booklets Left!
June 20, 2004We have only 25 of these wonderful 30-page free booklets left! In them, UFO researcher Stan Friedman talks about the star map drawn by Betty Hill during her world-famous UFO abduction in 1961. The Zeta Reticuli Incident was published in... continued
Panda Porn
June 17, 2004The Chinese know how to get sexually shy pandas to mate in captivity: Show them panda pornography. The project has been a success: Hua Mei is finally pregnant. Zookeepers are worried that pandas may die out because it's so hard... continued
Flash Mob Fun Goes Global
June 17, 2004What's a flash mob? It starts with a message sent to a list of people telling them all to show up at the same place at the same time and to be prepared to do something crazy, then vanish into... continued
Creating a Terrorist Weapon?by Accident
June 17, 2004Scientists trying to reduce the number of mice in Australia ended up creating a bioweapon instead?so why couldn't terrorists do the same thing? Ean Higgins writes in The Australian that immunologists Ron Jackson and Ian Ramshaw injected 10 mice with... continued