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Chemicals once used to make furniture more resistant to flame has been implicated in childhood neurological deficits, including lower IQs and hyperactivity: Via Scientific American: The researchers tracked children through the first five years of their lives, looking at a battery of tests for IQ and behavior. They found that children of mothers who had high PBDE levels during their second trimester showed cognition deficits when the children were five years old as well as higher rates of hyperactivity at...
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The Hanging Garden of Babylon may not have been in Babylon, after all: Via The Guardian: The whereabouts of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon – has been one of the great mysteries from antiquity. The inability of archaeologists to find traces of it among Babylon’s ancient remains led some even to doubt its existence. Now a British academic has amassed a wealth of textual evidence to show that the...
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Performance artist and opera singer Joseph Keckler unveils an epic, original Italian operatic aria that explores the dizzying highs and lows of a tumultuous psilocybin experience. Visuals provided by Sifl and Olly creator Liam Lynch: The post Bad Shroom Trip: The Opera appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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It looks like child abuse does more than leave physical and emotional scarring: It changes its victims on a genetic level. Via Medical News Today: A study of adult civilians with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) has shown that individuals with a history of childhood abuse have distinct, profound changes in gene activity patterns, compared to adults with PTSD but without a history of child abuse. A team of researchers from Atlanta and Munich probed blood samples from 169 participants in...
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On June 30, 1908, something exploded over an isolated region of Siberia. Theories abound over what that something could have been, with explanations both prosaic (meteorite or comet) and preposterous (UFO crash, one of Tesla’s experiments gone wrong) offered over the years since that mysterious event. While I personally love the idea of a UFO crash, it turns out that scientists working with the Russian Academy of Science may have turned up the first solid proof that a meteorite may...
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Sad news for any fan of old school stop-motion animation: Special effects trailblazer Ray Harryhausen has passed away. I’ve been a huge fan of Harryhausen’s work for all of my life. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that his creations helped to fuel my love a love of monsters and magic that indirectly led me to an interest in all manner of bizarre topics. Via The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation’s Facebook page: The Harryhausen family regret to announce...
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A log of vast numbers of individuals’ movements and actions is a burgeoning goldmine for major wireless carriers, the MIT Technology Review writes: Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users’ real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to little use other than for internal planning and marketing. This data is under lock and key no more. Under pressure to seek new revenue streams, a growing number of mobile carriers are now...
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Decide for yourself whether the advocacy at the UFO conference by Gravel, who declared personal bankruptcy a few years ago, could have been influenced by the previously noted payment of $20,000 he received for his appearance. Yahoo! News reports: Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) says the White House has helped keep the truth about the “extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet” from the public: “It goes right to the White House…it just goes down the chain of command, everyone...
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Troubling news for the parents among us: Toys and other children’s products contain low levels of a wide range of “chemicals of concern”: Via Scientific American: Cobalt in plastic building blocks and baby bibs. Ethylene glycol in dolls. Methyl ethyl ketone in clothing. Antimony in high chairs and booster seats. Parabens in baby wipes. D4 in baby creams. An Environmental Health News analysis of thousands of reports from America’s largest companies shows that toys and other children’s products contain low...
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At a gala event in Washington D.C, Luke Rudkowski got a chance to talk to Obama supporter and advocate, Stevie Wonder. In this interview Stevie Wonder explains his justification for Obama’s continuation of Bush’s policies such as illegal wars and keeping Guantanamo Bay detention facility open. Stevland Hardaway Morris known as his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer and songwriter, known as one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Via WeAreChange The post...
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