In her new Diary, Anne Strieber writes: “I got a message from God because I successfully ordered something over the internet. If you don’t think that’s too crazy (or even if you do), keep reading.”

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Drugs and music seem to go together naturally, but if you take Ecstasy while listening to loud music, you may get permanent brain damage. Is there a scientific way to predict which songs will be hits? Scientists have tried to find a method to do this for movies, now they want to find a scientific method that will help create hit songs. Will this work any better than their movie methods, which have so far left Hollywood cold?
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A psychic’s visions about a political candidate eventually led to the candidate’s arrest. Five years ago, psychic Rod Spraggins accused political opponent Barry Waites of murdering his wife, with nothing to back it up except the fact that he saw it in a dream. Spraggins and Waites were running against each other in a race for a city council seat in Birmingham, Alabama, so the accusation seemed politically motivated?except it wasn’t.
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We’ve written before about ant farms, where they grow food deep underground and even make their own pesticides. Now it turns out that ants also run a kind of Olympic race in order to share information about where to forage for food. This is still more evidence that, as evolution progresses and if man remains self-destructive, the insects are the ones that will eventually rule.

Bjorn Carey writes in livescience.com that this is one of the first discoveries of formal instruction between an insect teacher and pupil. When a female worker ant sets out for a food in a place where she’s found it before, she takes along another ant. Since the second ant doesn’t know where they’re going, the leader ant teaches her through what might be called tandem running.
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