On:

When we go to Wal-Mart and other stores?even fast food restaurants?we notice that the employees seem a lot older than they used to be. Spending your last years relaxing on a beach in Florida is becoming a thing of the past, and more than one of every five Americans age 62 and older who expected to retire is still working.

Part of this is due to stock market failures that have affected people?s pensions and savings, as well as social security payments that are too low to live on. It turns out that most people aren’t even PLANNING to retire anymore.
read more

On:

Just a few years after the last solar cycle ended, there is evidence that the next one, which is expected to be the biggest in 50 years, may have already begun. Sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections disrupt radio and telecommunications, including cell phones, and if they become strong enough, they can be especially dangerous for astronauts. They can also have effects on the weather, if powerful enough. Large sunspots, which reduce the amount of solar heat reaching the earth, can cause cooling, while coronal mass ejections may have the opposite effect. Since several countries plan to travel to the moon in a few years, excessive solar activity could delay their trips.
read more

On:

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are back in the news. These are caught and passed around mainly in hospitals, because so many antibiotics are used there, but occasionally they escape and invade the “real world.” Some people think that Morgellon’s may be a superbug.

The official name for superbugs is MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). It’s a type of staph skin infection that’s being increasingly seen in communities across the nation that is resistant to antibiotics, such as cephalexin and dicloxacillin, that are most commonly used to treat skin infections. MRSA is the origin of all those stories about “flesh eating” diseases.
read more

On:

Whether or not the huge creature known as the Loch Ness monster is a living dinosaur, we DO know that millions of years ago, huge carnivorous reptiles resembling Nessie lived in Australia. If the current Nessie isn’t real, we may soon be able to recreate her: A scientific breakthrough in DNA will make it possible for creatures that have been extinct since the Ice Age 30,000 years ago to roam the earth again?like Nessie does now?

BBC news quotes researcher Australian Benjamin Kear as saying, “Imagine a compact body with four flippers, a reasonably long neck, small head and short tail, much like a reptilian seal.” This creature grew to be around 16 feet long and had incredibly sharp teeth, so maybe we should hope that today’s Nessie IS a myth.
read more