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Aliens with golden eyes? Ever seen them? This week, Anne Strieber reads letters we have received from witnesses who have. Don’t miss these amazing first person accounts of a little-known aspect of the close encounter experience.

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There are some big surprises to be found out there. For instance, which men are having their genitals pierced? (Hint: It’s NOT who you think it is!)

A new study found that the average man with a genital piercing is 31, white, heterosexual, college-educated and earns more than $36,000 a year. Sociologist Alden Roberts says, “Some of the literature and stereotypes would lead you to believe that men who get genital piercings are strange or aberrant, but if you look at the data, these men are not much different from the general population.”
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As more and more states and countries legalize marijuana, pot farms are springing up out there. In Canada (where it is still illegal), police discovered that a marijuana farm is being guarded by trained black bears, when they tried to raid it.

But the bears were benign: Instead of attacking they simply acted as guards and were actually quite tame, so the police were eventually able to arrest 2 pot farmers. BBC News quotes police sergeant Fred Mansveld as saying, “They were tame, they just sat around watching. At one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off.” The bears were fed dog food, so the farmers broke the law in 2 ways, since in Canada it’s also illegal to feed bears.
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We farm fish and we certainly farm fruits and vegetables. Insects are full of protein and while Americans don’t eat them, many other cultures do, so why not farm them? In the future, we may do just that (unless they get too powerful–in which case we’ll probably shoot them down and eat the roadkill).

Raising cows, pigs and sheep uses up 2/3 of the world’s farmland and produces 20% of all the greenhouse gases that are changing our climate. The UN wants us to eat less meat, so a natural alternative is insects. global warming. As a result, the United Nations and senior figures want to reduce the amount of meat we eat and the search is on for alternatives.
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