It smells like a lily, it spits at you, and it comes from deep underground. It has invaded a town in Idaho with the ominous name of Moscow. It’s the giant Palhouse earthworm. There have been fewer sightings of it than of Bigfoot or Nessie.

Samples of the long, silky worm have only been collected in 1978, 1988, 1990 and 2005. Farmers are terrified that it will be put on the Endangered Species list. On Yahoo.com, Nicholas K. Geranios quotes Dan Wood of the Washington State Farm Bureau as saying, “I don’t know if people plan to stop all farming for the possibility of a worm being somewhere.”
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A spy would probably try to wear clothes that made him invisible. Failing that, the best thing to wear would be clothes that could take photographs of everything around him, without him seeming to ever click a camera.

BBC News reports that US researchers have created a fabric that can detect the wavelength and direction of light falling on it. When sensors are placed on each individual fiber, they coordinate these signals and can take photographs of the wearer’s surroundings.
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It’s not what you think – The giant monoliths of Easter Island are worn, but they have endured for centuries. New research suggests that a compound first discovered in the soil of this tiny South Pacific island might help us stand the test of time, too. You can never tell what you’ll find hidden at a sacred site.

When dirt from the Easter Island compound, called “rapamycin” after the island’s Polynesian name Rapa Nui, was fed to middle-aged mice, it their expected lifespans by 28 to 38%. In human terms, this would be greater than the predicted increase in extra years of life if cancer and heart disease were both cured and prevented.
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This year has been an unusual one in the history of the crop formation phenomenon. The reason for this may be that, as our minds open more and more to the creators of the formations, they are becoming more focused and easier for us to understand than ever before. (Or it may be that there are more and better hoax formations than ever before…)

Suzanne Taylor has created one of the most magnificent, startlingly brilliant DVDs on the phenomenon ever produced, and in this edition of Dreamland she and Whitley Strieber talk about her understanding of the formations and what they mean.
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