Want to slow the signs of aging and live longer? Yes, there is a “fountain of youth,” but you’re not going to like it?it can be summed up in two words: eat less.

Calorie restriction has long been shown to slow the aging process in rats and mice. While scientists do not know how calorie restriction affects the aging process in rodents, one popular hypothesis is that it slows aging by decreasing a thyroid hormone called T3, which then slows metabolism and tissue aging. A new study shows that cutting approximately 300 to 500 calories per day from your diet has a similar biological effect in humans and, therefore, may slow the aging process.
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It sure would be a relief for folks in California if they could predict the big one some OTHER way than looking for swarms of frogs. Soon they may be able to.

Researchers have found that stress-induced changes occurred in rocks a few hours before two small quakes in the San Andreas Fault area.

BBC News quotes researcher Paul Silver as saying, “If you had 10 hours’ warning, from a practical point of view, you could evacuate populations, you could certainly get people out of buildings, you could get the fire department ready. Hurricane [warnings] give you an idea of what could be done.”
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Japanese officials admit that UFOs exist, and now they’re going hunting for aliens.

Astronomers around the world are beginning to wonder about the radio silence of the universe. If radio emitting civilizations are at least somewhat common, some are beginning to think that we should have heard something by now. But, so far, no signal has been picked up that can be definitively identified as non-natural in origin. Now Japanese astronomers are trying a new approach.
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It’s not the threat of Iranian nukes, it’s those same two big problems: oil and global warming. As oil prices rise to record levels, we may think we’re ALREADY in an oil war?but we haven’t seen anything yet! Meanwhile, US intelligence is saying that, as climate change increases, so do our chances of going to war.

In the Guardian, Michael Meacher predicts that “The geopolitical implications of [the] gathering crisis for world oil supply 2010-15 are immense. The risk of further military interventions and conflicts in the Middle East is clearly high.” He quotes a US “neocon” as saying, “One of the reasons we had no exit plan from Iraq is that we didn’t intend to leave.”
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