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The ideal spy would wear invisible clothes that automatically took photographs of his surroundings and he would be able to read whatever you typed on your Blackberry. This almost happened in Dubai, and across the border in Canada. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen here!

BBC News reports that an update being promoted for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates turned out to actually be spyware that would allow covert agencies there access to private information and emails. Blackberry users became suspicious when the update, which promised improved performance, led to drastically reduced battery life.
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And cats control us with their purrs – The only reason we notice that dogs bark is because domestic dogs vocalize in this way much more than birds, deer, monkeys and other wild animals that use barks. The reason is related to their 10,000-year history of hanging around human food refuse dumps.
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More lethal than car crashes! – The recent deaths of Heath Ledger and perhaps even Michael Jackson point out the sad fact that adults between the ages of 34 and 56 are at a greater risk of dying from poisoning than from traffic accidents.

Poisoning deaths include those resulting from drug overdose or other misuse of drugs of prescription drugs. According to the CDC, 92% of poisoning deaths in the US involved drugs.

The CDC reminds everyone to take only medications that are prescribed for you. Never take or share other people’s medications, never take more or less medicine than was prescribed, and make sure your doctor knows all medications you are currently taking, in order to avoid dangerous drug interactions.
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Yes, we really did go to the moon 40 years ago on the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, sparking a moon race that is still going on. A lunar geochemist says is still lots to learn from the moon rocks collected there. And we almost didn’t collect them at all!

Researcher Randy L. Korotev has studied lunar samples and their chemical compositions since he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and “was in the right place at the right time” in 1969 to be a part of a team to study some of the first lunar samples. He says, “We went to the moon and collected samples before we knew much about the moon. It’s only been fairly recently that we decided that we should look closer at these Apollo 11 samples. We know even more now and can ask smarter questions.”
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