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Maureen Caudill is an expert in neural networks who had an explosive psychic awakening that she discussed on Dreamland on February 10, 2007. (Available to subscribers.) Now she’s back describing an out-of-body experience to Anne Strieber that will amaze you.

It’s not often that an established scientist acknowledges psychic powers, and even more rare that one will become psychic.

As a scientist, Maureen approaches her psychic experiences methodically and carefully, lending them a credibility that is not usually present.

This interview offers a credible and carefully documented look into a type of experience that is not often documented, and is not to be missed.
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What makes people violent?especially males? Scents that trigger aggression between have been identified in mice?does the same thing happen with humans?

BBC News reports that researchers have found that mice excrete two chemicals in their urine which make them want to fight.

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Here at unknowncountry.com, we provide you with ALL KINDS of information?including the science behind movies, magic and sword swallowing! It turns out that a specific part of our brain holds the key to how ventriloquists create the illusion that their dummies can talk.

In LiveScience.com, Ker Than quotes neurobiologist Jennifer Groh as saying, “The prevailing wisdom among brain scientists has been that each of the five senses?sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste?is governed by its own corresponding region of the brain. Now we are beginning to appreciate that it’s not that simple.”
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Scientists have always assumed that humans have better memories than our close cousins the chimpanzees, but in a recent contest, the chimps won!

BBC News quotes Japanese researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa as saying, “Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working memory capability for numerical recollection?better than that of human adults tested in the same apparatus, following the same procedure.”

The researchers pitted three pairs of mothers and 5-year-old chimps against college students, who were all shown a computer with groups of numbers from one to five arranged in boxes on the screen. They had to remember which number appeared in which location and show that by touching the right square.
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