Identical images of a mysterious labyrinth can be found all over the world?could they be the memory of something that was once very real? click here to find out.
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Bacteria isn’t always bad?the same bug that gives travelers “the runs” can protect you from colon cancer. Scientists have discovered that the bacteria that causes Montezuma’s Revenge also slows the growth of dividing colon cancer cells, which may be the reason that colon cancer is mostly found in developed nations, while diarrhea caused by intestinal E.coli is more common in developing countries, meaning it may give them protection from cancer. And people who have bad breath may be missing the bacteria that binds to our tongues and keeps bad smelling microorganisms away. This means we should use mouthwash that encourages bacteria, rather than the antiseptic kind most of us use.
Did you know music can heal? Composer Steven Halpern makes music especially for that purpose.read more
When we read about pedophiles and learn that few of them can ever change, we despair because almost all sexual abusers were abused as children themselves. It seems like there’s a continuous, unending cycle of abuse being passed on. Now a new study finds that most men who were sexually abused as boys do not go on to abuse children themselves. Researchers at the Institute of Child Health in London say that only one in eight abusers continues the cycle.
David Skuse and his team studied 224 men who had been sexually abused as children and found that only 26 of them went on to commit sexual offences. In almost all cases, the abuse involved children outside their family, and the average age at which they began to abuse others was 14.
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The U.S. and South Korea Monday are staging two major joint wargames next month, playing out a nuclear threat from North Korea. Wargames like these are often played before major military maneuvers are launched. The U.S. says the games are “defense-oriented” and designed to improve the U.S.-South Korean combined ability to defend South Korea against “external aggression.” Meanwhile, North Korea says that its army of 1.1 million will win any nuclear war with the U.S. and denounces the games as “preparations to provoke a nuclear war” targeting them.
Did Hitler invent flying saucers while trying to create a major new weapon?
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