We sometimes notice that the combination of a car’s headlights, grill and front bumper looks something like a face. Men who love cars see “faces” in them, using the same parts of their brains that recognize human faces, which may be why they feel so much love for their vehicles.

Forty men, half of them car lovers, wore sensors that monitor electrical activity in the part of the brain linked with facial identification. They were then asked to identify both faces and cars, and the car lovers used the same brain techniques for both. They also had a hard time identifying images with both faces and cars in them, as if their brains were experiencing a “traffic jam.”

Maybe they need to learn how to see things in a brand new way.
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A bill has been put forward in the House of Representative to set aside a special day to honor aliens. Dan Foley, a Republican from Roswell, New Mexico, has proposed an “Extraterrestrial Culture Day” every second Thursday in February. He’s asked that the bill be passed “in recognition of the many visitations, sightings, unexplained mysteries and technological advances?of alien beings.” Roswell, New Mexico, is where an alien spaceship may have crashed in 1947.

There’s plenty of proof that UFOs are real–find out all about it in a book autographed by Whitley.

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The particles generated by cosmic rays that crash into the Earth’s atmosphere can reveal nuclear material hidden inside cars, trucks and ocean containers, because the cosmic particles are deflected by the dense nuclear material. A cube of uranium 3 inches wide that’s hidden in a truck could be spotted in a minute, by a detector developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory. And new genetic tests will allow us to detect exposure to biological weapons within a few hours, when treatment is much more effective, which will make them less attractive to terrorists.
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The U.S. says moves to ban depleted uranium ammunition are an attempt by America’s enemies to blunt our military might. Colonel James Naughton says Iraqi complaints about depleted uranium (DU) shells have no medical basis. “They want it to go away because we kicked the crap out of them,” he says. During the Iraq war, tons of DU weapons will be used by British and American tanks and by ground units. Some people are still suffering from the DU ammunition used in the Gulf War 12 years ago.

Depleted uranium is a by-product of uranium enrichment for nuclear weapons or nuclear reactors, and it’s valuable because it’s extremely dense?about 1.7 times heavier than lead?and it?s self-sharpening when it penetrates armor. When it’s used defensively, ordinary weapons bounce off it. read more