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Posts made in June, 2013

Pandora’s Promise: Director Robert Stone Takes On The Anti-Nuclear Movement

Do you like nuclear weapons?If you respond yes to that, I think you have lost your mind. While I understand the value of an overwhelming force to end a bloody world war, it's also something that can't be unmade.  We had opened "Pandora's Box", the belief went. read...

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Lone Signal: METI Teams Up With Citizen Science To Try And Make First Contact

If you want to make sure your extra-terrestrial efforts can survive a nuclear attack, working inside the Jamesburg Earth Station on, fittingly, ComSat Road, just outside Carmel, California, is a fine choice. A short drive to Pebble Beach and Spyglass golf courses means it is not a bad way to spend your weekends either.If you enjoyed seeing Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon, Jamesburg is one of...

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2012 Drought Led To 2013 Nitrate Problem In Iowa

2012 saw a drought in the American mid-west.  As a result, withered corn plants didn't suck up all the nitrogen spread on fields.  But 2013 gave Iowa citizens the wettest April in 141 years, and that rain washed the unused fertilizer into rivers, the primary source of drinking water for 45 percent of the state's population. The problem will pass, but nitrate levels will always...

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‘Pinpoint Accuracy’ Says The North Pole Will Soon Be At 40 Degrees South Of The Equator

Have you heard of volcanoes, earthquakes and British weather?If so, maybe you can blame the North Pole if you don't like any of those things. If you have been asleep for 110 years or never read anything about continental drift, you may not know the North Pole is moving.This video alleges that the North Pole will soon be in Siberia at this rate. The video blogger says his calculations have shown...

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John Edward Mack’s Weird World Of Alien Abductions

John Edward Mack, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, believed lots of people had been abducted by aliens.Never heard of him? Most people haven't. His fame as an Ivy League believer in alien abductions was more novelty than anything enduring but 'experiencers - alien abductees don't want to be called abductees - said he was “the most important scientist...

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