Is homosexuality genetic? It’s a long-running debate. This is an important question, because if this was proven (and accepted by lawyers and lawmakers), then discrimination against gays, such as state bans on gay marriage, would be ruled unconstitutional.

Now researchers say they’ve found a clue that may unlock the mystery. It lies in something called epi-genetics–how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches. They found that the transmission of sex-specific epi-marks may signal homosexuality.
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Sudden stratospheric warming has split the polar vortex in two. The polar vortex, which forms as the atmosphere loses heat to space in long Arctic winter night, was split in two by massive heating from below, as a series of intense storms in the far north Pacific intensified. Energy went upwards from the lower atmosphere around the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau and broke into the stratosphere, causing major sudden warming.

But wouldn’t that make it warmer instead of colder? Surprisingly, no–this creates SEVERE winter weather.
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Years ago, Betty Andreasson Luca was given a little blue book, which she put on a closet shelf. It later disappeared. Early last October, when I was suffering through a health crisis, I came into contact with a little blue book. In a comment made after publication of my October 5 journal entry, I said that I would publish what I remembered of its contents. Subsequently, though, things got much worse and I did not keep my promise as quickly as I had thought I would.

These are the contents of the book as I remember them:

15,000 years ago prior to planetary cataclysm  injection of concepts: soul survival, deity, afterlife.
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