Popular host William Henry will still be doing Dreamland interviews, but he has a NEW show called “Revelations,” in which he will do short, 30 minute interviews with some of the most interesing people in the world, and you can listen to the first one now! And speaking of shows, did you know that Anne Strieber had her OWN radio show, “Mysterious Powers,” from 2004 to 2005? Now subscribers can listen to all 19 of those shows!

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Most of the time, it doesn’t seem to help – Why does scratching help when we itch? It’s one of those things that most of us never think about?but scientists do?especially if they’re trying to find a cure for excessive itching. For many types of itches, it is not clear that the sensation serves any clear purpose

Scratching an itch helps relieve it by blocking the nerve cells that transmit the itch to the brain. BBC News quotes itch expert Gil Yosipovitch as saying, “Although there is a long way to go, methods that can induce a pleasurable scratch sensation without damaging the skin, via mechanical stimuli or drugs that can inhibit these neurons, could be developed to treat chronic itch.”
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…and some mysteries solved – Scientists have now obtained the entire Neanderthal genome, and 60% of it has been decoded, and there are some surprising findings. First, there is no evidence that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals interbred. Second, they were genetically as capable of speech as we are, and may well have had complex languages. And we now know that our feet are older than we (modern humans) are. Ancient footprints found in Africa show that the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.The footprints were discovered in two 1.5 million-year-old sedimentary layers in northern Kenya. These rarest of impressions yielded information about soft tissue form and structure not normally accessible in fossilized bones.read more

The earthquakes in Italy were accompanied by a flurry of UFO sightings in Rome and Milan, and Whitley Strieber interviews Italian UFO expert Paola Harris about the possible significance of this. The UFOs videotaped were not earthquake lights, but actual, structured objects. The sightings have been covered on Unknowncountry.com, and they raise the question: what is the connection between UFOs, earth changes and large-scale natural and historical events on earth?
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