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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “No, I’m not referring to the War in Iraq?although frankly that invasion seems pretty silly at this point. I’m referring to the War on Drugs?yet another US war that cannot be won.” Besides quoting an important article about the war in Afghanistan from a UK magazine that you probably haven’t read, she reveals details about the disastrous drug experiments that she and Whitley have participated in.

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We recently reported that satellites have spotted dangerous cracks in Arctic icebergs, and now we may be discovering WHY this are happening. Can a storm in Alaska, started by global warming, end up breaking apart an iceberg at the opposite end of the earth? The surprising answer is yes.

A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. Oceanographers have known since the early 1960s that ocean swells can travel half way around the world. But a new study raises the possibility that an increase in storms driven by climate change could affect far-flung parts of the globe.
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We recently wrote about a superbug detector, which will mostly be used in hospitals, where antibiotic-resistant superbugs lurk. Maybe we should use these germ revealing wipes in hotel rooms, because it turns out that the average hotel room is horribly contaminated!

A group of researchers found that adults infected with the virus that causes of half of all colds may contaminate many objects used in daily life, leaving an the infection behind for others who follow them. The conducted their tests in hotel rooms.
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For years, people who have had close encounters and those who remember being abducted have reported memory erasure so total that it is called “missing time.” Now State University of New York scientists have discovered a way of erasing memory that makes your brain as clean as a wiped hard drive.

ScienceDaily.com reports that scientists at SUNY Downstate Center have discovered the molecular mechanism that maintains memories in the brain. By inhibiting this molecule, they can erase long-term memories, and erasing memories from the brain does NOT prevent you from having new memories?or even from re-learning the old, erased ones, the same way you can reuse a cleaned computer disc.

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