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Sunday Jun. 28 to Saturday Jul. 4, 2009
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A Mummy is Unwrapped
03-Jul-2009
Using a computer -
Thanks to the skills of artists (and
psychics) who work on
cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what
the University of Chicago's mummy may have looked like when
she was alive and living in
Egypt.
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Saying Goodbye to Our Pets
03-Jul-2009
...when we no longer have a home -
There are many tragedies connected with the
recession, and one of these is the dilemma about
what to do with some special members of our families when
we can't afford to take care of them anymore: our
pets.
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Emergency Room Crowds
03-Jul-2009
Are they really that bad? -
Hospital Emergency Rooms increasingly seem crowded and
chaotic. George Bush suggested that if you didn't have health
insurance, you could always go to an emergency room, so
most people assume that's the reason for the long waits
three, but it turns out that primary care (non-urgent patients
with nagging colds, flu or aches) are NOT what is causing this
overcrowding.
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Plant Pretends to be Sick
02-Jul-2009
We now know that bacteria
plan
ahead. New research has revealed that some plants are
hypochondriacs. Nature has a lot to tell us if we'll only
listen.
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Homeless: The Ultimate Solution
02-Jul-2009
Something that government officials don't like to admit is that
most of the homeless people who ask for money on the street
are mentally ill. Some of them are addicted to alcohol,
drugs (or both), but since the mental hospitals have closed
and the recession is still going strong, we are all seeing more
and more of these people on the streets of our local
communities.
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The Curry Cure
02-Jul-2009
And green tea medicine -
We reported on this before, but it was unclear whether
or not simply EATING curry occasionally would do the trick,
but researchers have now decided that it will. So your new
prescription is: eat curry once a week. And finish the meal
with a cup of GREEN tea.
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Chat TONIGHT!
01-Jul-2009
But no chat the following Wed., July 8 -
Whitley and Anne met so many of our wonderful
subscribers at
the Dreamland Festival and they are looking forward to
chatting with all of you on Wed., July 1st from 7 to 8 p.m. in
the subscriber chat room. We will NOT be holding a chat on
July 8, because we will be in New York City filming a reality
pilot about UFOs (let's hope it turns out better than the
last one!)
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Big Tobacco the One Who Needs to QUIT
01-Jul-2009
...Quit trying to hook our teens on smoking -
President Barack Obama's signature on a bill to grant the FDA
authority to regulate tobacco was a historic step that could
eliminate tobacco use in the US by 2047. To save
themselves, tobacco companies are still trying desperately to
hook teens on smoking. They know that major genetic risk for
lifelong nicotine dependence can be suppressed if young
people avoid daily smoking before age 17.
Full Story
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Savants Fairly Common
30-Jun-2009
In autistics, anyway -
There are more savants out there than we realized.
Full Story
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Big Brains Can Be a Problem
30-Jun-2009
Do we get cancer because we
evolved
big brains? That's a depressing thought, but it may be true.
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Anne's Diary: Trickster Coyote
30-Jun-2009
Many Native American tribes have a deity called "Trickster
Coyote," who plays pranks on people in order to bring them
enlightenment, and the Visitors often do this as well. In her
new diary,
Anne Strieber writes, "This is the story of how Whitley, in the
role of Trickster Coyote, played a practical joke on one of the
world's most famous religious leaders without meaning to."
She read this diary aloud at the recent Dreamland Festival.
You will notice that she does not mention the name of this
religious leader, but Whitley blurted it out after her reading,
so if you attended the Festival, you KNOW who she's talking
about!
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Tunguska Mystery Solved
29-Jun-2009
AGAIN -
The Tunguska mystery has been
solved: it
was a comet, not a UFO, that
flattened leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
But now NASA scientists have verified this by studying the
exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a
century later.
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Why Do Some Teens Join Gangs?
29-Jun-2009
Gangs are a major problem in urban areas, and now scientists
have discovered that boys who carry a particular variation of
a gene known as MAOA, which is sometimes called
the "warrior gene," are more likely not only to join gangs but
also to be among the most violent members and to use
weapons. This finding does not apply to girls (who also join
gangs).
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Plan Ahead
29-Jun-2009
If BACTERIA do it, you can too! Bacteria can anticipate a
future event and prepare for it. A
group of researchers in the US and Israel worked together to
examine microorganisms living in environments that change in
predictable ways. Their findings show that these
microorganisms' genetic networks are hard-wired to "foresee"
what comes next in the sequence of events and begin
responding to the new state of affairs BEFORE it happens.
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