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The British are giving out a special version of the Nobel prize, called the IgNobel, for silly scientific research. Among the recent IgNobel winners are a scientist who researched belly button lint. Another award was given to scientists who showed how to measure the surface area of an elephant. An IgNobel was also awarded to researchers who translated dog barks into Japanese.

IgNobel organizer Mark Abrahams says, “These are all research projects that raise eyebrows. Some raise your eyebrows so much you can damage your face.” The IgNobels are given out by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, recognizing projects that “cannot, or should not, be reproduced.”
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1.6 million people a year die violent deaths every year around the world, and half of these are suicides, according to the World Health Organization. One third of the violent deaths are homicides and 20% are victims of war. Violence is the leading cause of death in people from the mid-teens to middle age. Eastern European people have the highest suicide rate, while Latin America and parts of Asia have the lowest. “The most shocking thing is how big the problem is regardless of country, region or religion. Violence is unacceptably high in all countries,” says WHO?s Etienne Krug.
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There are at least ten top secret American facilities in Australia, with Pine Gap, outside Alice Springs, being classified as the most important. At the time the agreement to establish Pine Gap was signed by the Australian government, its purpose was to observe satellites stationed over the Pacific and Asia. The American agencies involved in Pine Gap are the CIA, NSA and the NRO. However there were other reasons for establishing the base which have never been fully revealed to the Australian government. To read the secret behind Pine Gap,click here.

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Whitley Strieber received a call from Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, strongly objecting to the notion that the strange case of a possible murder by UFO in Pennsylvania should be confirmed as a hoax.

Mr. Davenport pointed out that NUFORC had made extraordinary efforts to resolve the case, and he felt that there were significant indications that something very strange did indeed befall the decedent, Todd Sees, who was found dead in a woods near his home on August 5, 2002.
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