Getting a puppy for Christmas? It’s amazing to realize that all dogs of today, that come in so many shapes and sizes, are all descended from the same animal–the wolf. Man domesticated the dog, as a working and hunting partner at first, then later as a friend. But what most people don’t know is that the dog has been living and working with us since prehistoric times.
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It’s a real enigma: Humans aren’t the only thing that’s killing coral–a certain variety of seaweed is doing the same thing, in a battle beneath the sea. Scientists for the first time have identified and mapped the chemical structure of molecules used by certain species of marine seaweed to kill or inhibit the growth of reef-building coral.
Chemicals found on the surfaces of several species of seaweed have been shown to harm coral, suggesting that competition between these species could be a factor in the worldwide decline–and lack of recovery– of coral reefs.
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This object appears to be a plane, and yet it is difficult to explain its vanishing in what seems to be a clear sky. Is it a military aircraft using sky-transfer cloaking, which utilizes LED cameras to project an image of the sky from one surface of a plane onto another, or is it a genuinely unknown craft?
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Thinking of getting your nails done for those holiday parties? How about a new haircut? We hate to make you paranoid (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), but doctors suspect there is a risk of hepatitis transmission through non-single use instruments–such as nail files, nail brushes, finger bowls, foot basins, buffers, razors, clippers, and scissors–during nail salon and barbershop visits.
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