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Can’t sleep? Lots of people have that problem. Doctors speculate that the accidental overdose death of actor Heath Ledger happened because he was taking medication for a bad case of insomnia. Live near an airport or highway? Traffic noise you’re not consciously aware of can keep you awake. Kept up by a barking dog? You may not be able to stop him but you MAY be able to understand him: researchers think they have finally deciphered the language of dog barks.
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We’re all used to seeing images of famine in Third World countries, but this is usually because of local farming conditions or because war has disrupted the distribution of food supplies. However, worldwide food shortages are predicted for the future, and not just because of global warming.
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When it comes to romance, are good looks more important to you than anything else??Only if you’re good looking yourself! In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes behaviorist Dan Ariely as saying, “Beautiful people marry beautiful people and less beautiful people marry less beautiful people.” And what do people who aren’t terribly good looking do? According to Ariely, they “?basically switch what they care about and they start caring less about beauty and more about sense of humor.”
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Legendary author of “The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar” Steven Sora is back on Dreamland, this time with William Henry, to tell us about how Homer’s tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey are actually adaptations of ancient Celtic stories of wars between Atlantean city-states. Then Linda Howe interviews the scientist who is studying that catastrophic ice shelf melt in the Antarctic, and reports on a bizarre deer mutilation that happened just this week!

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