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UPDATE – This coming Sunday morning, a lot of brains will be thrown out of whack, as the clocks shift forward by an hour in the earliest-ever return to Daylight Saving Time (DST). Even though the clock will say 8 a.m., it will feel like 7 a.m. to our brains and bodies?and that will leave many people feeling groggy or “not quite right” for a day or more. The Monday morning commute on the day after DST starts is especially hard, and is associated with a spike in sleepy-driving crashes.
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When Anne Strieber lived among fundamentalists, she was appalled at their ignorance about what’s actually in the Bible. On this week’s Dreamland, popular authors William Henry and Laurence Gardner have a lively discussion about the recent TV documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Whitley’s response to the TV show is an incredible journal on this topic. Meanwhile, we seem to be in the middle of an ancient religious war. Are Americans incredibly ignorant about religion?
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Two weeks ago, we posted a story about a mysterious white dust that was blanketing the Seattle area. It was described as as thick as snow, and reminded people of the volcanic dust from the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Now researchers think they know what it is.

Local resident Carol White took samples of the dust to Liz Amdall at the Northwest Allergy & Asthma Center, and Amdall immediately recognized it as pollen from juniper trees. On the King 5 News website, Glenn Farley quotes her as saying, “You can tell right away, it’s just very distinctive in the color and the warty surface.”
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The Japanese discovered how to make people invisible. Now some UK scientists have discovered how to make objects?especially military objects?invisible as well. And a new gown could protect you from getting a superbug, the next time you’re in the hospital.

The researchers have created a device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, so that they are forced around objects they don?t want you to see. In LiveScience.com, Ker Than quotes engineer David Smith as saying, “The microwaves come in and are swept around the cloak and reconstructed on the other side while avoiding the interior region, so it looks as if they just passed through free space.”
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