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As the population ages, a big problem is if (and when) to take driver’s licenses away from elderly drivers, who may no longer have good enough eyesight or reflexes to safely drive a vehicle, especially in modern, suburbs, where it’s often necessary to negotiate a highway in order to buy groceries. Many cities are in the throes of deciding whether to implement light rail services, but there’s a better solution: a car that drives itself.
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In close encounters and UFO sightings (and some Bigfoot sightings), people have reported the smell of sulfur (a rotten eggs smell). Now scientists have learned that that hydrogen sulfide, which produces this odor, can alter consciousness without causing physical harm, by causing a state of suspended animation. This could also be a clue to the phenomenon known as missing time.

When mice breathed the gas, they went into a hibernation-like state. Their activity level fell dramatically, and they moved only when the researchers touched them or shook their cages. After the mice returned to breathing normal air, they quickly returned to normal.

Art credit: Dana Augustine
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Drinking sodas, instead of water, with meals and in between meals, is one of the primary causes of obesity in the US. Since these sodas are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup made from corn, they may even lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Now it’s been discovered that cola contributes to osteoporosis, the disease that causes brittle bones, especially in elderly women.

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, over half of Americans, mostly women, are at risk of developing osteoporosis, a disease that leads to bone fractures. Nutritionist Katherine Tucker has discovered that colas, such as Coke and Pepsi, may contribute to lower bone mineral density in older women.
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?IF you live in Germany. German lawyer Jens Lorek is advertising that he can get compensation from the state for people who have been abducted by aliens. In the US legal system, this would be a class action lawsuit?the kind brought by large groups of people against drug manufacturers and cigarette companies.
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