Whitley Strieber has reported for years that the visitors have told him that the reason that they do not make contact with us is that the United States shoots at them, and now the UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed that this is military policy among Western nations.
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…has a surprising use! – Physicists have discovered an unbelievably large source of x-rays in common household sticky tape. Unrolling tape in a vacuum has been found to produce x-rays so intense that in the future, tape may replace x-ray machines.

You can test this yourself: If you unroll tape in an extremely dark room, you will see a faint glow.

It seems that there are now a million-and-ONE uses for duct tape!

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By age 9 months, babies can pick out sad music from happy pieces. Maybe we ALL start out with musicians’ brains: It turns out that trained musicians really DO think differently than the rest of us?in fact?along with successful baseball players?they use their brains the same way that left-handers do.

Psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians use a creative technique called divergent thinking, which utilizes both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. This is the same way that the brains of people who are left-handed function.
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One in four mammal species is threatened with extinction, and the terrestrial mammals in Southeast Asia are particularly at risk. The top threats to land mammals are habitat loss and harvesting (hunting, use for medicine, fuel and other materials).
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