We’ve reported on meteors have crashed through the roofs of houses and even almost hit people. Recently, in Delaware, a hunk of hot space metal crashed through the roof of an S.U.V.!
In the Delaware News Journal, Alan J. McCombs writes about an object that, despite being small (16 inches), “sliced like butter” through the roof of an S.U.V. parked on a neighborhood street.
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We now know that genes make us fat, which came as a surprise to many of us. Most of us have always assumed we inherited our height, and now researchers have identified the gene that makes us tall (or short). And why in the world do some of us have straight hair, while other people’s hair is curly?
In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi writes that scientists have discovered that curly hair gets less tangled than straight hair. French biophysicist Jean-Baptiste Masson asked hairdressers count tangles the tangles in the hair of over 200 people for a week. 123 of these people had straight hair and 89 of them had curls. It turns out that straight hair gets tangled almost twice as much as curls.
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This week Linda Howe has one of the most extraordinary close encounter reports ever done. It is in the last half hour of Dreamland, and NOT TO BE MISSED. Before that, Whitley interviews Jeff Meldrum about Sasquatch. Jeff has done such an incredible job on the science that no less than Jane Goodall and Peter Matthiessen are endorsing his FANTASTICALLY GOOD book.
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When you finish Dreamland, you are going to want more, and Whitley gives it to you by going deeper with Jeff Meldrum. Whitley starts out by saying, “when we were on the air, I didn’t have time to bring up something that’s really been fascinating to me,” then he proceeds to ask about letters Unknowncountry.com has just gotten from two separate people who have had bigfoot sightings in East Texas, just in the past few weeks!
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