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The secret is out

I wonder if Edgar Mitchell's helmet had a leak in it on that moon walk:

I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said.

"It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

Cancer, er, cancel my calls

No study has yet shown a link between cell phone use and brain cancer, but the head of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center is warning his faculty and staff to limit their phone use because of the possible risk:

Snooze it or lose it

You probably haven't been losing any sleep wondering about this, but in the digital age, a snooze alarm could be any length of time. It's nine minutes because of the limitations of tehcnology when the alarm was invented:

Posted in: All about me, Science

Cooling on warming

At least the administration is ending on a high note:

The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would damage the U.S. economy and cause too many job losses.

Hot and clean

Another cause of global warming is . . . wait for it . . . clean air!

GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.

A little help, ladies

Today's "Well, duh" headline: Sex is good for men:

THERE'S new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say.

Out there

Happy 60th anniversary to the flying saucer:

1947: Pilot Kenneth Arnold sights a series of unidentified flying objects near Washington's Mt. Rainier. It's the first widely reported UFO sighting in the United States, and, thanks to Arnold's description of what he saw, leads the press to coin the term flying saucer.

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Posted in: History, Science

Just a cigar

(SPOILER alert)

Posted in: Film, Science

Show me the way to go home

For someone with absolutely no sense of direction -- if you're ever lost, just ask me which way to go, then do the opposite -- this seems like a pretty silly concern:

For most people -- the cab driver, the tourist, the business traveler -- the ubiquitous GPS has become a lifeline, giving directions to the nearest bathroom, a pizza joint or the shortest route to the office.

Snooze alarm

Boy, there's some smart researchers at this sleep-disorder center:

THURSDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Teens whose high schools have a delayed start time sleep longer and report less daytime sleepiness, say researchers at Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center in Connecticut.

Posted in: All about me, Science
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