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Archivists for the New Zealand Naval Museum have uncovered a forty year old photograph taken from the deck of HMNZS Royalist during Waitangi Day celebrations in 1965 that shows a saucer shaped object in the sky ahead of the ship. Archivist Paul Restall, who found the photo, has told New Zealand media that the image is integral to the grain of the film negative, and therefore that it was not added to the image after developing. It is not possible to determine the size of the object or its distance from the ship. The photo was found during an archival effort to find photographs for the Naval Museum’s new website, which was launched on October 20.
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New research shows that eating vegetables, not fruit, helps keep us mentally alert as we age, BUT another study shows that eating strawberries is good for our memory.

In determining whether there was an association between eating vegetables and fruit and cognitive decline, researchers studied 3,718 residents in Chicago, Illinois, who were age 65 and older. Researcher Martha Clare Morris says, “Compared to people who consumed less than one serving of vegetables a day, people who ate at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day saw their rate of cognitive change slow by roughly 40%. This decrease is equivalent to about five years of younger age.”
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We have recently reported that both dolphins and elephants may be self-aware beings, like humans. Scientists think that dolphins and whales, which live in the water despite breathing air, evolved onto land, but then RETURNED to the water, because they liked it better there. Now scientists may have found a missing link that proves this theory of evolution?just as we’ve recently discovered a human missing link.

Japanese researchers captured a bottlenose dolphin that has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs. Fossil remains prove that 50 million years ago, dolphins and whales were land animals that walked on four feet.
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In a devastating article in the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk writes that Saddam Hussein, who has just been sentenced to death for his war crimes, committed these crimes when he was “Washington’s best friend in the Arab world.” The US not only knew all about his atrocities, we even supplied the chemical weapons he used against his own people, and against our soldiers in the first Gulf War.
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