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Scientists have recovered fossils from a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today’s big snakes seem cute and cuddly.

The size of the snake’s vertebrae suggest it weighed 2,500 pounds and measured 42.7 feet from nose to tail tip. Geologist David Polly says, “At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips. The size is pretty amazing. But our team went a step further and asked, how warm would the earth have to be to support a body of this size?”
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In a recent Journal, Whitley talks about waking up to find a mysterious blue light flooding his apartment. There may have been a reason for this: a new study shows that blue light can kill superbugs!

Science Daily reports that two common strains of antibiotic resistant staph bacteria, which are commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation.

Researcher Chukuka S. Enwemeka says, “It is inspiring that an inexpensive naturally visible wavelength of light can eradicate two common strains of MRSA.”

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Why do soldiers risk their lives in wars, and then come home and kill themselves? The US Army has recently announced that there were a record number of suicides among soldiers last month. If this keeps up, more soldiers will have killed themselves last month than died in combat.

In CNN.com, Barbara Starr and Mike Mount quotes an Army official as saying, “This is terrifying. We do not know what is going on.”
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Anne Strieber writes about having her intuitions ignored and her heart broken by show biz, and about being constantly asked to find things?even though she can’t see well anymore. Is there a message for her here? Read her her new diary and find out!

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