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Nature’s Nuclear Reactors

In the early- to mid-1950s, Dr. Paul Kuroda from the University of Arkansas described the possibility of naturally oc...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Oct 2005 • Read/Listen →
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It Rains More on Weekends

Fair weather often seems to play hard-to-get on warm season weekends. During the work week, we toil under buzzing flu...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Don’t Catch a Fat

There's been a lot of research findings about obesity in the past few decades, but this seems to be the weirdest yet:...
Written by Bryan Lowder • 06 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Emotional Bankruptcy of Alexithymia

Few people are familiar with the condition known as alexithymia, yet it is not so rare a thing. Alexithymia is condit...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Oct 2005 • Read →
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It Were Aliens! I Seen ’em!

In a far off region of Siberia, known as Tungunska, an event occurred early in the last century that has caused much...
Written by Josh Harding • 04 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The First Successful V-2 Rocket

On Oct. 3, 1942 the first successful V-2 rocket was deployed from an island off of Germany's Baltic coast. The rocke...
Written by Shad Larsen • 03 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Fainting Goats

Most of the internet savvy, it seems, are somewhat lacking in knowledge relating to the interesting topic of "bizarre...
Written by Jason Bellows • 30 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Body-Snatching Barnacles and Zombie Crabs

There is no small number of unsettling parasites crawling, flying, and swimming about the Earth, the lucky ones hitch...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Operation Midnight Climax

The US CIA and military is filled with a history of bad decisions, deceit, and in some cases what I would classify as...
Written by Shad Larsen • 26 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Invasion of the Tongue Snatchers!

The Spotted Rose Snapper, which lives off the coast of California, is one of a handful of species of fish that are pl...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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