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The world is full of mysteries, and some of them are right in front of us. For instance, the huge variety of dogs: Long dogs, large dogs, tiny dogs. Most “toy” breeds have larger “standard” sizes that they were bred down from (poodles are one of the best known examples of this). One exception is the Chihuahua: Where is the big ancestor to the tiny dogs of today? Maybe there ISN’T one, maybe these little dogs, which are about the size of a steak, were originally bred for FOOD.

September 8th edition of the New York Times, Nicholas Wade reports that ALL dogs may have originally been bred to eat. Only later, after humans had them around for awhile, did we realize they could be useful for other specific tasks, such as hunting, herding and pulling sleds.
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In Anne Strieber’s latest diary, she writes: “In my rather ‘naughty’ diary a few weeks ago, I wrote about celebrating an uncle’s 90th birthday by going skinny dipping (and no, the uncle was NOT one of the participants, although he’s a pretty game guy, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if he had joined in). I have a funny follow-up to that story, plus a new set of portents that hit me with a wallop after I got home. I sometimes think that God (or Goddess or the Great Spirit or Whomever) has realized I don’t listen to whispers in my ear, so I get hit over the head with a metaphorical frying pan instead.” We guarantee that you’ll have an enlightening time at our Stargate Conference in October and remember: If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would have already read this story!read more

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The Visitors will reveal themselves FIRST in China – Everyone in the US is waiting for the Visitors to land on the White House lawn, but the last time they showed up in a big way, we shot at them. Whitley thinks the Visitors will first reveal themselves in China, and here’s why. We hope some UFOs will show up at the skywatch at our Stargate Conference in October (as long as the earth’s crust stays in place)! If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would already know about Whitley’s new journal. To sign up, click here.

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Scientists have identified cells in the stomach that time the release of a hormone that makes animals eat even when they are NOT hungry (like we humans sometimes do). But maybe that’s not always a bad thing: People with large thighs have fewer heart attacks.

Researcher Rae Silver has some diet advice for us: “It’s a good thing to eat meals at a regularly scheduled time of day.” Just don’t make one of those times of day late at night! On BBC News, Sudeep Chand quotes researcher Deanna Arble as saying, “One of our research interests is shift workers, who tend to be overweight. This got us thinking that eating at the wrong time of day might be contributing to weight gain.”
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