A medical breakthrough of the past few years is the discovery that having only one gene for a deadly disease can protect a person from other illnesses, which is why these diseases, like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia, persist in the human population. This realization came about when it was discovered that sickle cell anemia, a genetic condition that only exists among black people, offers protection from malaria, if the person only inherits one of the genes. Something similar has now been discovered for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Christmas is coming, a time when we begin to think about the presents we’d like to get and the ones we plan to give. Giving, if it is done in the right way, can be a major chance for spiritual growth. I recently received a message about this that I want to share with you.
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A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources contractor has reported a close encounter with a “large, black furry figure” that reached into the back of his truck and removed a deer carcass. He is contracted to remove road killed deer. The only known animal fitting the description of an animal at least 7 feet tall would be a gorilla or a grizzly bear, but neither animal is known to be present in the wild in Wisconsin, and there have been no reported escapes. Sheriff’s deputies have not found the creature or the missing deer.

The Milwaukee Channel reports that Steve Krueger as saying, “I felt the truck shake. I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a large, black furry figure reaching into the back of the truck.”
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We’ve talked about space elevators, or cable cars, in the past. But they may only be able to be used by robots, because of the radiation surrounding the earth.

Kelly Young writes in New Scientist that space elevators could be a cheap way to get cargo and possibly people into space one day. This could be especially important if we establish colonies on the moon, or even on Mars. But there’s one problem: any human riding one of these through the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth would get a lethal dose of radiation. The reason that astronauts have not been injured in this way is because they traveled so quickly through this area, but a space elevator would be a much slower ride.

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