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Using NASA satellite imagery, scientists have discovered that 23% of the water released from the mouth of the Mississippi River after the New Orleans floods subsided traveled into the Gulf of Mexico, around the Florida Keys, and into the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists can track the water flow using NASA’s MODIS satellites, together with data from “ocean surface drifters,” instruments resembling balloons that travel on the ocean surface. These all show the outflowing water as a dark plume stretching across the Mississippi Delta, around Florida and up to the Georgia coast.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that they caused too much international alarm with their recent statement that bird flu could kill as many as 150 million people. Scientific predictions of bird flu deaths have ranged from less than two million to as much as 360 million, but there’s no way to know how lethal the pandemic will be until it begins. One thing scientists do agree on is that there WILL be a pandemic.

Emma Ross reports in canada.com that Dr. David Nabarro mentioned the high number at a UN news conference recently. Now WHO’s flu expert Dick Thompson has announced that it’s necessary to put Nabarro’s remarks in the proper context. WHO thinks bird flu will kill an absolute maximum of 7.4 million people, most of whom will be in Asian countries. read more

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American conservatism began as a movement dedicated to the preservation of individual freedom. It was founded on three fundamental pillars: the limitation of government involvement in private life, the containment of corporate power, and the prevention of military adventure abroad.
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Pathological liars have different brains from the rest of us, that are actually structured so that lying comes naturally. Psychologist Adrian Raine has discovered that these people have more white matter, and less gray matter, in their prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain where story telling?and lying?is located and it’s more active when people tell lies. White matter produces quick, complex thinking, while gray matter inhibits our baser instincts.
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