UPDATE – There’s more news on using our surplus corn as fuel (in the form of ethanol). As our readers know, corn is not the best plant to use to convert into ethanol?other types of plants produce a more efficient fuel. Honda thinks it has found a way to convert plants waste, such as leaves and stalks, into fuel we can burn in our gas tanks.

In USA Today, Chris Woodyard writes that Honda is using a microorganism discovered in Japan that can convert vegetation into ethanol much more efficiently than the bacteria that is used to create ethanol now.
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People who hear voices in their heads are considered to be schizophrenics, despite the fact that many UFO witnesses hear the visitors speak to them that way and psychiatrist and UFO researcher John Mack proved that these people WERE NOT mentally ill.

Andrea Thompson writes in LiveScience.com that scientists now think that hearing voices in your head can be a positive experience, not a sign of mental illness. Studies by Dutch scientists in the 1990s found that almost everyone has auditory hallucinations at times, and some healthy people hear them regularly. Many of these people do not find these voices stressful in any way, and some people find them inspirational. They think that around 4% of the population hears voices in their heads.
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Two years ago, I wrote a diary about what it’s like to go to the premiere of the movie based on a book you wrote–an experience that was as amazing and unreal to me as it would be for you. That was four months before my aneurysm burst and I almost died. We attended the premiere with Art and Ramona Bell, who died 6 months later. I decided to write a similar diary about what it was like for Whitley to appear with comedian Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes about what it was like to sit in the “green room” while Whitley taped an appearance on the Craig Ferguson Late Late Show.

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