A man killed himself today. Although I’d only met him a couple of times, I think I know why he did it: He met up with the same "mild" Satanic figure that we did, but in his case, he couldn’t crawl out of the hole again.
Evil doesn’t always rampage–it doesn’t always call attention to itself in the dramatic style of the horrible villains of history, such as Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong-Il. Sometimes it tiptoes stealthily into the room.
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Mike Bara of Ancient Aliens is a self-described “Born Again conspiracy theorist.” His first book, Dark Mission-The Secret History of NASA was a New York Times bestseller in 2007 and his essay “The Occult History of NASA” appears in Secret and Suppressed II. Here, he discusses threats such as that of a massive solar flare and other changes that we might be facing–and how to use the principles of intentional choice to make changes that will help us flourish instead of fade.
Mike’s website is MikeBara.com.
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In their search for a low greenhouse gas emissions fuels, scientists have done a lot of embarrassing things: They have measured kangaroo farts and cow farts. Now they are collecting giraffe manure.
Prowling the animal cages at the Audubon Zoo with tweezers and sandwich bags was an unusual and somewhat disconcerting experience for David A. Mullin and his graduate students.
In the January 10th edition of the New York Times, Guy Gugliotta quotes biologist David A. Mullin (as he prowls the zoo with tweezers and baggies) as saying, "I’d never stood next to a giraffe before. They’re huge."
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Until we have instant learning, we’ll still have to study for tests. Have an important final exam coming up? You’ll do better if you chew gum! Psychologists conducted a study that showed that students who chewed gum for five minutes before taking a test did better on the test than non-gum-chewing students.
"Mastication-induced arousal" is credited for the boost, which lasted for about the first 20 minutes or so of testing. A "battery of cognitive tasks" was given to the study participants, who chewed gum either prior to or throughout testing. Their performance was then compared with subjects who did not chew gum.
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