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Whether or not you believe in the paranormal may depend onyour brain chemistry. Peter Brugger, of the UniversityHospital in Zurich, Switzerland, thinks people with highlevels of dopamine are more likely to find significance incoincidences, and pick out meanings and patterns where nonereally exist.

Dopamine is part of the brain’s reward and motivationsystem. It?s thought that addicts may have naturally lowlevels of dopamine.

Brugger experimented on 20 ?believers? and 20 skeptics. Histeam asked the two groups to distinguish real faces fromscrambled ones as the images flashed by briefly on a screen.Next they were asked to identify real words from fake ones,as scrambled letters flashed past them.
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If you can’t remember the names of the people you’ve beenintroduced to 5 minutes later, wear a computer thatremembers for you. Accenture Technology Labs has created aPersonal Awareness Assistant (PAA) that uses speechrecognition software. It doesn’t have a keyboard ormouse–it consists of two wireless microphones, one worn inthe user’s ear and the other around the waist. The system isalways recording the sounds around it and when it receives aspoken signal from the user, it saves the 10 seconds beforethe phrase and the 5 seconds after. Your signal could besomething as simple as “Nice to meet you.” It also recordsthe date, time and location, using a Global Positioning System.
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Researchers at Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft maker,are building an anti-gravity “flying saucer” based on thework of controversial Russian scientist Yevgeny Podkletnov,whose work is viewed with suspicion by scientists whohaven’t been able to reproduce his results. The project,code named Project Grasp, is being undertaken by thetop-secret Phantom Works in Seattle, which handles Boeing’smost sensitive programs.

Podkletnov claims to have figured out how to counter theeffects of gravity in an experiment at the TampereUniversity of Technology in Finland in 1992. He says hefound that objects above a superconducting ceramic discrotating over powerful electromagnets lost weight.
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Despite recent stock market crashes and corporate meltdowns,America’s corporate elite are living the high life. Evensome of them who are under government investigation aredoing just fine.
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