Our bodies are filled with pesticides, and they may cause brain tumors. Agricultural workers exposed to high levels of pesticides and people who use them on houseplants appear to have a greater risk of developing this disease.
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Is it a miniature stonehenge you could carry around in your pocket? It’s sort of a prehistoric pocket watch. Some archeologists think it’s a fake, while others insist that it’s a real artifact that is 3,600 years old. It was recovered from the treasure hunters who found it in a “sting” operation in Switzerland. What is it?
Archeologists are trying to decide whether a Bronze Age disc called the “Nebra disc,” after the town where it was found in 1999, is one of the earliest known calendars. It is covered with symbols of the sun, moon and stars.
BBC News quotes archeologist Peter Schauer as saying, “German archaeologists don’t say clearly that this is a fake. They hide, thinking that the thunderstorm will blow over.”
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An area of the Arctic the size of Florida has melted away in just the last six days as the polar cap continues to melt at a record rate. And not surprisingly, polar bears are starting to disappear as well. There are a lot of mysterious events going on in the far North right now.
On the ABC News website, Clayton Sandell reports that “2007 has already broken the record for the lowest amount of sea ice ever recorded?smashing the old record set in 2005.” In just the last six days, researchers say that almost 70,000 square miles of Arctic ice has disappeared, which is a piece the size of the state of Florida.
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