Until it began ejecting brightly lit objects, this nighttime UFO could have been anything from streelights to signage. But what happens in this video is truly extraordinary. Of course, it’s always possible to hoax such things, and a CGI job in this case would be easy to do and hard to detect, but your Out There editor’s gut is going with this being a real video of a real unknown.
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Red is the color of "stop," but it’s also the color of love, and a woman wearing red is often seen as giving "go" signals–either intentionally or unintentionally–to the men around her, and it makes men feel more amorous towards women too: When a man takes a red-wearing woman on a date, he’ll spend more money on her.
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Trans fats (that’s margarine!) make you more aggressive–should you switch to butter?
The emotions that have been tied to trans fats include irritability and outright aggression (hey, maybe your BOSS should switch to butter).
Science Daily reports that "dietary trans fatty acids are primarily products of hydrogenation, which makes unsaturated oils solid at room temperature. They are present at high levels in margarines, shortenings and prepared foods. Adverse health effects have been identified in lipid levels, metabolic function, insulin resistance, oxidation, inflammation, and cardiac health."
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The NSA (National Security Administration) is building a huge computer complex called The Utah Data Center, where they can spy on the rest of us in Bluffdale, a small town in Utah, which (until now) has mainly been known as a major center of Mormon polygamy. Once it’s built, it will be over five times the size of the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
In Wired.com, James Bamford writes, "New pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand."
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