If you think having loads of money (from a good job?), good looks or the admiration of others will improve your life, think again. A new study shows that these things can actually make you LESS happy.
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Was Mayan medicine as good as their calendars were? Researchers are looking at the plants shown in Mayan art so they can identify them and find out why that civilization thought of them as sacred.
Were they hallucinogens or something that we could use in our own pharmacies? Many so-called modern medicines have their origins in healing plants used by indigenous people, especially those living in the rainforests of the world.
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Whitley will be on Coast to Coast AM tonight (Wed., June 10) at 11:30 pm Pacific, talking with his editor and with George Noory about his new novel The Omega Point, which is about 2012 and time travel. To find out where to listen in your area, click here.
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It’s evil corn yet again! There is growing interest in using the waste that’s left on the ground after a crop is harvested for the production of ethanol because it produces more energy than corn-based fuel. This would also help solve the food versus fuel debate, because less of the grain would be diverted to ethanol production, leaving more available as food for livestock (and for us).
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