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UPDATE CANADA! – Some people are still searching. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has funded an array of 350 antennas which SETI will use to continue its search for alien life. BBC News reports that they should be up and running by 2025. Meanwhile, there have been UFO sightings worldwide.

Let’s hope they scan the skies near the Giza Pyramid in Egypt, since UFOs are continually being spotted there. To see them yourself, click here. Also, super bright meteors were reported during the last week of September over both Alaska and Finland, while balls of light of less certain origin appeared over an English town.
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Two years ago, we reported the unthinkable: our favorite non-stick cooking surface may be dangerous. Now it has been discovered that babies whose mothers cook in non-stick pans, exposing their fetuses to the chemicals on them, have a significantly lower body weight at birth.

Researcher Joseph McLaughlin says, “This is a chemical that we don’t know very much about with regard to its long-term effects in humans.”

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Researchers have made great strides when it comes to figuring out how to stick things together. They’ve also figured out how things get tangled up when we don’t WANT them to.

Cellophane tape was invented in 1929 by engineer Richard G. Drew, who had already invented masking tape 4 years earlier. It took him 5 years to figure it out, but he finally succeeded. LiveScience.com reports that the tape got its name when an auto painter complained that it wasn’t sticky enough and said, “Take this back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it.” Now the amount of Scotch Tape sold every year could circle the earth 165 times.
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Owning an iPod can be dangerous?in more ways than one. Crime statistics released by the FBI show that violent crime increased in 2005 and 2006, and they think that thefts of iPods may have triggered the spike, since adolescents are most often the victims.

Their power to distract users gives thieves an advantage. The iPod’s popularity among young people may make it a special target for juvenile offenders, and indeed youth robbery arrests jumped 11% in 2005 and 21% in 2006. Adult robbery arrests rose only 1% in 2005 and 5% the following year.
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