UPDATE: Will the high altitude mean fewer gold medals? – They’ve almost over and the participants are probably exhausted. What does it take to be an Olympic athlete, besides skill? There’s a mind set involved that most of us just don’t have (as well as some GENES that most of us don’t have). And the altitude plays a big part too (Keep reading for UPDATE).
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Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have led to many theories. There’s one thing all researchers agree on, however: A mass extinction occurred here in a geological instant. And other scientists have discovered that WE almost went extinct 1.2 million years ago. Will it happen again?
When our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe and Asia, there were probably only between 18,500 and 26,000 couples producing children. That’s a smaller breeding population than today’s endangered gorillas!
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to cover up the truth! – When it comes to conspiracy theories, we know that UFOs are at the top of the list. When you receive FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act, you find they are mostly useless, because huge blocks information have been “redacted” (blacked out). A British newspaper reveals that the same thing is true in the UK for declassified UFO files.
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Different chat day this week! – It’s a bird conspiracy: Those crows you hear cawing every time you go outside may be holding a grudge against you personally. It turns out they recognize individual human faces and hold a grudge for years against anyone who has treated them badly. But if they like you, they may touch you with a feather.
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