The U.S. military has become increasingly excited about positive psychology techniques. Maybe a better route would be to offer soldiers respect for their critical thinking.

At about 6 p.m. on August 6, two students walked out of their library in Jilin University and looked up. “Look! A flying dragon appears in the sky!”

On May 30th of this year I received a comment on my post titled Missing Time Experience? about the time slip and memory loss incident that I experienced in my early teens.

Earlier this month a co-investigator on the Kepler satellite mission in the hunt for other Earth-like planets announced to a conference in Oxford, England, that “planets like our own Earth are out there.

Astronomers claim to have discovered a very young brown dwarf, or a failed star, in a tight orbit around a young nearby sun-like star.

Spain has designed the world’s first robot with its own “conscience” and “life”, which will “entertain, teach and be a companion” to humans who purchase it.

Its official: a hail stone found in Vivian, South Dakota is the biggest hail stone in the nation by weight and diameter.

Sleep tight, and don’t let the bedbugs bite! But don’t be surprised if they do: The bloodsucking micro-insects are multiplying by leaps and bounds, turning up in nearly every area of the U.S.

He was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo – but when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed.

Intrinergy, a Richmond, Va. biomass renewable energy company, is close to signing a long-term wood pellet supply contract with a European power company.

This post is part of a Progressive Media blogging series on the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California’s clean energy climate law.

The dramatically scaled-back energy and oil-spill bill released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday lacks both a carbon pricing mechanism and a renewable electricity standard (RES).

Boulder may take over the city’s power plant in an effort to reduce coal use.

The volcanic island of St. Lucia plans to tap geothermal power trapped beneath sulfur springs and roiling mud pools in a rare attempt at developing alternative energy sources in the Caribbean.

Portland General Electric (PGE) announced on Monday that it just finished the $14 million solar project, the largest rooftop solar array in the Pacific Northwest.

Last spring, a utilities industry research group partnered up with the new Solar Technology Acceleration Center to push solar energy development forward.

The U.S. Navy is getting serious about solar energy and has just awarded five contracts worth up to $100 million for the design, installation and management of solar arrays.

Leonardo DiCaprio says a lot of his movie, Inception, was made with solar power. In fact it’s the first movie he made using solar power.

The following is a post by Paul Hannam of Bright Green Leadership offering internet marketing strategies for responsible businesses.

Canadian military jets intercepted two Russian bombers this week as they approached Canadian airspace near the Arctic, the defense ministry said Friday.

A Salmonella outbreak in 17 states has been linked to frozen mice, rats and chicks used to feed pet reptiles.

Genetically engineered milk is very different than natural milk, and clearly qualifies for FDA’s explicit mandatory labeling.

Scientists have raised yet another alarm about the havoc in the Gulf of Mexico. According to GulfLive.com, researchers have found an oil and dispersant mix beneath the shells of post-larval blue crabs.

Some researchers are convinced that calcium supplements not only provide no benefit for post-menopausal women, but that they can even be harmful, increasing the risk of heart attacks by nearly a third.

A research by Harvard Scientists found that people consuming processed meats, such as hotdogs, sausage, becon, deli, luncheon meats run the increased risk of coronary disease by 42%.

Specialty Farms is voluntarily recalling certain Alfalfa sprout products with a best if sold by date of “8/3/2010″ and “8/1/2010,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced.

Many ballpark concession stands or restaurants cited for at least one “critical” or “major” health violation.

A study published Tuesday by the UK journal Rheumatology, reveals that regular consumption of alcohol is better at preventing physical pain in the long term.

If your doctor has given you a free sample pack of Coumadin DO NOT USE IT!

The Natural Resources Defense Council just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps.

After supposedly abandoning the much-touted cap-and-trade scheme, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a scaled-back $15 billion energy bill that supporters hope will muster enough votes.

Powering homes with solar electricity can lower the homeowner’s utility costs with minimal environmental impact.

Russia says it plans to spend $200 million building the country’s largest wind-power plant in the southern Krasnodar Territory near the Black Sea.

Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin.

Audit shows 95% of the funds for rebuilding Iraq 2007-2009 is MISSING and 100% from the years 2004-2007 is unaccounted for. Pentagon doesn’t even know where it all went. Unbelievable!

WikiLeaks recently gave selected media accomplices–The Guardian, The New York Times and the German magazine Der Spiegel, copies of some of its materials.

Recently, the United Nations broke its silence on the siege of Gaza which is about to enter its fourth year, not to denounce it or speak up against it, but, shockingly, to endorse it.

For the second time this year, parents said employees at one school district have been spying on their kids at home by accessing the web camera on their school-issued laptop.

“COIN” is a doctrine of counterinsurgency, a carefully designed strategy to wrest a strategic area. If it isn’t challenged, we may find ourselves debating its merits in places like Somalia, Yemen, or Mauritania.

A public health nurse who helps special-needs children, says she had always believed that her son’s life insurance funds were in a bank insured by the FDIC, but found out it wasn’t actually sitting in a bank.

This forthcoming documentary by The Corbett Report interrogates the theory that Al Qaeda is a centrally-operated terrorist organization run by Osama Bin Laden that perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.

The White House wants to give the FBI easier access to the Internet activity of suspects without a court order, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

In the present atmosphere of the everlasting “reset” of relations between the U.S. and Russia, it is not difficult for the Kremlin to camouflage its arming of Palestinian terrorists.

The true extent of the Labour government’s involvement in the illegal abduction and torture of its own citizens after the al-Qaida attacks of September 2001 has been spelled out in stark detail.

There is a strong belief in some Asian countries that the website Wikileaks is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s own cyber-warfare activities.

A federal judge ruled on July 15 that the government can withhold information from the public about intelligence sources and methods, even if those sources and methods were illegal.

More than one in five Americans in 2009 suffered a household income loss of 25 percent or more over the previous year.

An unidentified flying object (UFO), which apparently consisted of three bright lights, astounded residents from Booysens in Pretoria for two consecutive nights for several hours.

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was made busy for eternity rolling a rock up a steep hill. The question is, was he happier than if he got to sit around idly doing nothing?

A new study shows that people with relationship insecurity are more likely to experience stroke, high blood pressure, and even heart attacks than their secure counterparts.

Animal rights activists say meat is murder — bloody, bloody murder.

Twain made us wait 100 years for this memoir. He’s still an enigma shrouded in a white suit.

The most widespread endocrine disruptor is known as Bisphenol-A, that can affect men’s performance, fertility, and virility, essentially their manhood.

More and more, it seems that recalled foods are not making their way back to processors and current disclosure measures are not adequately alerting consumers to the dangers lurking on their grocer’s shelves.

“Many people,” says Dr. Eeva Karjalainen, of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, “feel relaxed and good when they are out in nature.

Vitamin D promises to be the most talked-about and written-about supplement of the decade.

A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.

On Monday morning, July 26th, John Stetson woke up early to watch the sunrise over Casco Bay in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He expected a pretty view. What he got was pretty strange.

Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation.

A team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya.

The new movie Agora chronicles the life, challenges and death of a 4th Century woman astronomer whose contribution influenced and shaped modern science and our understanding of the world and the universe.

A new superfly has been blamed for a suspected surge in infected insect bites that in extreme cases have left some victims hospitalised, wildlife experts warned.

JK Galbraith, a giant of 20th century economics, said the purpose of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. This week’s inflation numbers bear out his maxim.

Nowadays, we know what meteors are. But just over 200 years ago, meteors vexed the great minds of Europe.

Another possible Russian spy has surfaced in the U.S. and her name just also happens to be Anna.

The calls to Colorado voters Wednesday night were just one sign that the federal ruling in Arizona is likely to ripple through this heated campaign season.

To avoid getting imprisoned, a murderer tried to poison himself to death. When he was revived, he find out that he has been placed at the top of a liver transplant list at a hospital in New York City.

Perhaps the most important cause of the oil’s disappearance, some researchers suspect, is that the oil has been devoured by microbes.

Google Inc. struck a 20-year deal to buy clean energy from a NextEra Energy Inc. wind farm, a move that places the Internet search giant in the wholesale energy market

Energy ministers from 20 countries that account for over 80 percent of the world’s global warming pollution came to the U.S. to discuss how to speed up the deployment of clean energy throughout the world.

There is difference between healing and curing. Dr. Lissa Rankin says that you can be healed without being cured, and you can be cured without being healed.

Yoga is a great way to improve concentration, just by its nature. Working a few of the postures and breathing exercises below into your practice can help boost your power to focus even more!

Researchers using NASA’s fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights.

Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that is a first and significant step away from the mouse and keyboard touchable holograms.

Research has been steadily accumulating that olive oil, a main component of the Mediterranean diet, has extensive health-protective properties.

Would you change your lifestyle if you could slash your risk of getting cancer by a third or even half?

Eating less meat may be the key to keeping a healthy weight, say researchers.

A study recently published in the American Society for Clinical Nutrition concluded that daily consumption of artificially sweetened soft drinks could be linked to an increase in risk of preterm delivery.

An increase in blood levels of vitamin D can significantly reduce a person’s risk of heart disease.

Morris County is going green in a big way. Buildings that are powered by renewable energy are on the rise in the area, bolstered by both environmental concerns and financial incentives alike.

The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) finance tool helped thousands of homeowners pay for green improvements to their homes until Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac came out against it.

The Alta Wind Energy Center — with plans for thousands of acres of turbines to generate electricity for 600,000 Southern California homes — officially breaks ground Tuesday.

Center officials hope the most recent program is one of many to come that takes advantage of national efforts to retrain the workforce for so-called “green” jobs.

Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that certain illnesses such as chronic fatigue, yeast infections, itchy ears, dandruff, patchy itchy skin rashes, and more, may just have a common cause — fungus.

You’re going for one last set of bench presses, but fatigue is setting in. Do you reach for a sports drink? Look to your trainer for motivation? A new study suggests you may want to cool your palms.

Resolution 1553 presented by Rep. Gohmert is brief and fairly vague in terms of providing a time-table for finding a ‘peaceful solution’ but is flagrantly providing explicit support for military strikes against Iran.

A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.

Talk about piling on — now even Santa Claus is taking shots at the Catholic Church.

Marie Exley of Colorado Springs is convinced that Armageddon, the end of the world as written of in the Bible, will come next year.

WikiLeaks released Sunday some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories.

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, with the Big Government claiming ownership over our water.

US industrial titan General Electric has agreed to pay over 23 million dollars to settle allegations that it bribed Iraqi officials, a US financial watchdog said on Tuesday.

An unemployed 20-year-old man in Virginia who this year threatened South Park’s creators over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, has been arrested.

The Israeli army reportedly fired bombs with flechettes, which are illegal under international law if fired into densely-populated civilian areas. The shelling was in and around residences in Beit Hanoun.

A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark matter is lurking at the center of the sun and cooling down its core temperature.

When two spectators standing on the boundary at a cricket match saw an object hurtling down from the sky, their first instinct might have been to applaud.

Archaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight of around six kilograms.

Underground coal fires in the Powder River Basin of northeast Wyoming, along the Tongue River north of the town of Sheridan, are blazing like infernos.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Breen turned his outrage into art, by using the actual oil from the spill to draw cartoons about the BP oil tragedy.

In 2005, a metalworker made a most startling announcement. The hills that surround the central Bosnian town of Visoko were not mere hills, but were in fact ancient pyramids.

A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas claims that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought.

It seems too good, but research demonstrates it’s true: a solar technology could reverse carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere while turning that captured carbon into fuel.

Moms who don’t skimp on the hugs and kisses might just produce happier, better-adjusted kids.

Archeologists have discovered the well-preserved burial site of the founder of a Mayan dynasty, which promises to offer new insight into the ancient empire.

It all began in third grade, when Katie Stagliano’s 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, Katie’s six gardens have produced over 4,000 pounds of vegetables to feed the needy.

If just one more shovel of earth had been removed, the curious figurine of a kneeling woman carved about 900 years ago might have ended up in a 19th century curio shop.

Objects from the Taosi ruins in Shanxi Province that suggest Chinese civilization began around 4200 B.C., 500 years earlier than scholars had previously believed.

The first American state to deploy speed cameras has banned them after a campaign of opposition from motorists.

It’s uncurable and will strike 1 in 8 of us. So do your part by eating the right kind of diet and keeping your body and brain engaged.

This notion goes back to a common bit of health lore claiming that our bodies completely regenerate themselves every seven years.

For decades, coaches and shoe salesmen have visually assessed runners’ foot types to recommend footwear.

People who live in excessively smoggy areas tend to have higher rates of heart disease, according to several studies.

Celiac disease affects as many as one in 133 people in the US, but hope for a vaccine treatment could be right around the corner.

Can allergies to certain foods trigger migraines? What about food additives like MSG? Dr. David Dodick of the Mayo Clinic responds to readers’ questions about migraines.

The Air Force staff are creating ear, nose and eye prosthetics for wounded soldiers and veterans.

A forestry researcher in Finland highlights the multiple ways in which taking time to enjoy a local forest or green space is great for a healthy body and mind.

In the latest “Really?” column, Anahad O’Connor explores the link between exercise and heartburn.

Losing weight is great, but jeesh … such effort. If struggle isn’t your thing, you might be tempted to ditch that treadmill and hop aboard the latest diet-fad bandwagon — the ice cube diet.

All of the recent bizarre weather could be caused by climate weapons.

Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns.

America continues to slaughter innocent civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan using its deadly drones.

Vermont senator and Green Jobs Committee chairman Bernie Sanders got his “Ten Million Solar Roofs” bill through the influential Energy Committee on Wednesday with a vote of 13-10.

ExxonMobil and its biofuels partner Synthetic Genomics opened a greenhouse facility in La Jolla, Calif. today devoted to research into algae-based biofuels.

British firm to design mammoth offshore wind turbines with 275m wingspan that produce three times power of standard models.

WindTamer Corporation released the results of a performance report from Professor Kenneth Visser of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

BP Biofuels North America announced today the purchase of Verenium Corp’s cellulosic biofuels business, which includes two facilities in California and Louisiana, for $98.3 million.

With Geothermal heating systems we are able take advantage of this heat source by sending water underground to be heated and then returned to our homes.

The Senate is considering yet another green-focused legislation — $1.5B for energy storage companies.

According to the relevant statistics ITRI, Taiwan’s west coast wind resource ranked third in the in the world, like it’s sitting on an invisible green gold.

Terra-Gen Power has just received the financing needed to build the next four wind farms in the largest wind energy project on US soil.

Heat pump prices boost the use of wind and geothermal energy.

You are probably familiar with concentrating solar power (CSP), but a new type of CSP plant, a molten salt CSP plant, has just gotten rolling and you may not yet know why that is important.

A massive UFO was seen Monday night as it passed near the moon and reflected the light from the moon.

AllCell Technologies, a Chicago-base developer of technology that can double the life-span of lithium-ion batteries, expects to secure $5 million in new funding by year-end, G.E.R. learns.

World energy trends tell us that the best energy should be clean, efficient, high energy efficiency, economic efficiency and Environment Benefits.

The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) has a 46-foot solar boat sailing around the Mediterranean, to promote both greater use of renewable energy and conservation of marine ecosystems.

Millions of federal dollars could be on the way to Hawaii.

One of the techniques modern factory farms routinely use to increase weight in livestock is to give all of the animals a dose of antibiotics with every meal.

Relationships hold the key to giving terminally ill patients the spiritual care they need.

The way babies are delivered exposes them to different bacteria that could affect their future health, a study finds. Vaginal births appear more advantageous than C-sections.

To save his female patient’s fast deteriorating health, Dr. Khoruts decided he wouldn’t do the usual transplant, but gave her instead some of her husband’s bacteria.

Japanese women are expected to live almost 86 1/2 years, topping the world longevity ratings for the 25th straight year, the government reported Monday.

Injuries from contact lenses, intravenous tubes and other “medical devices” send more than 70,000 American children to emergency rooms each year, a new study shows.

Swimming may be fun (if you like that kind of thing), but it also carries risks…

Emotions — particularly those provoked by negative events — can cause distorted, inaccurate memories, but less often in children than in adults, according to a new Cornell study.

A publicist was told, as most of us should also be, to do more cooking at home and told to add more fruits and vegetables, lean protein, dairy foods and whole grains to her diet.

Jonathan Papernick couldn’t understand how after solving his bout with Celiac by removing gluten from his diet, along comes another, more frightening, condition.

The 22 statistics reported by the Business Insider prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.

Rex Brynen found out that it seemed the very word Palestinian is deemed to “violate page guidelines or contain a word or phrase that is blocked.”

Nearly 150 to 200 women are killed every year in India after being tagged as ‘witches’, a Dehra Dun based NGO has said citing National Crime Bureau statistics.

This week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill shielding journalists and publishers from “libel tourism.”

Federal records show a steady stream of oil spills dumping 517,847 barrels of petroleum, which would fill an equivalent number of standard American bathtubs, into the Gulf of Mexico between 1964 and 2009.

Software that can predict when and where future violent crimes will be committed is being used in Britain for the first time.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he had met with Russian spies deported from the United States following Russia-U.S. spy scandal and sang patriotic songs with them.

Hank Albarelli’s probe reveals that the US Army and CIA have been experimenting with dengue fever for years with the aim of weaponizing insects to be released against unwitting populations.

Anybody who has suffered an assault by swarms of mosquitoes in the Alaska Bush has wondered whether the world be a better place without them.

Researcher Anthony F. Sanchez interviewed a retired USAF Colonel to recall the events surrounding a classified 1979 incident which took place at Dulce, NM.

Scientists have detected the largest molecules ever seen in space, in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.

They said it couldn’t be done. But the architects of Tham & Videgard built it, one of six units in a “Treehotel,” which recently opened 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.

A dragon with two heads and six legs sounds like something out of Greek mythology, not a pet.

The discovery appears to reinforce prevailing theories about a ceremony known as “the presentation” that was carried out by the Moche people, an agricultural civilisation that flourished between 100 BC and 800 AD.

Aside from the technical details of building a time machine, the possibility of going back in time to kill your ancestors and prevent your own birth has posed a serious problem for potential time travelers.

Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years.

A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to “resurrecting” ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced.

Scientists say a meteoric impact crater found in the remote Egyptian desert may be the best-preserved ever found on Earth.

Results from a decades-long research project show that mountain rodents called marmots are growing larger, healthier and more plentiful in response to climate change.

Researchers have discovered four new species of octopus in Antarctica with venom that works at sub-zero temperatures.

Iran is way ahead of the US in intelligent and effective health care and a small town in Mississippi wants to learn from Iran’s health care program.

The US Dept. of Justice has officially informed Congress of corruption allegations involving the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department.

After overthrowing the govt. of Honduras the US may now be up to more criminal military thuggery in Central America as it moves 46 war ships and 7,000 soldiers into once peaceful Costa Rica.

America’s genocidal war on the people of Iraq will continue for hundreds of years from the dumping of radioactive waste on Iraq’s cities and towns.

The BP oil spill disaster appears to have been deliberately caused and not merely a case of greed and corruption.

The headline has been written countless times, but this time it is true: carbon cap-and-trade of any sort will not come out of this Congress—and perhaps it never will.

In suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its work isn’t seen, but its impact is surely felt.

Britain’s overseas intelligence service, MI6, faces questions about security failures that allowed a graduate recruit to smuggle top secret files out of its headquarters and try to sell them to another country.

The mega disaster continues and the insanity keeps building towards potential planetary destruction.

Visitors to the West Bank town of Hebron this summer might find a strange-looking white vehicle motoring through its streets – the first Palestinian solar-powered car.

Capsules that contain supplements such as ceramides and omega-6 promise healthier skin, but doctors doubt the oils will ever reach their intended target.

As bacteria become drug-resistant, once-abandoned treatments are seeming less risky.

A fungus usually found in the tropics has taken root in the Pacific Northwest and has been blamed in the deaths of 15 people over the last six years, health officials said Thursday.

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, not only see our dependence on oil as a security threat, but believe that we need to pass clean energy legislation.

After nearly three months of inaction since the beginning of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Senate will finally take on climate and clean energy within the next two weeks.

When it comes to renewable energy, we hear plenty about the latest developments in solar and wind. But what about the latest developments in kinetic energy?

Here’s a case of strange bedfellows: the world’s first hybrid coal-solar power plant is now up and running outside Palisade, Colorado.

Germany could derive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 and become the world’s first major industrial nation to kick the fossil-fuel habit.

Washington state is about to turn a section of Interstate-5 — all the way from Canada to Oregon — into the nation’s first electric highway.

Why should a plastic bag languish in a landfill when it could be powering your computer?

Should you ask which city has installed the most solar, the answer would have to be: Nipton, California.

The last eight American presidents promised to move America off oil and onto renewable energy, but so far we only have increasing dependence on foreign petroleum, rising carbon emissions and an out of control gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

Unlike in the past years, Albuquerque’s Downtown Grower’s Market this year was powered entirely by the sun.

It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on Earth than gravity. But what if it’s all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else going on at deeper levels of reality?

Electric shocks. Withholding food. Social isolation. Why are we paying for autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to be treated like enemy combatants?

Tim Shorrock, an investigative journalist, asks why it took the Washington Post seven years to investigate and do the story on the US Intelligence System.

Factual satellite images in the past several weeks show that the Gulf Loop Current is broken and may cease to function entirely, resulting in massive climate change and possibly an ice age for Europe!

Nick Clegg was tonight forced to clarify his position on the Iraq war after he stood up at the dispatch box of the House of Commons and pronounced the invasion illegal.

A blue-green algae bloom the size of Germany has formed in the Baltic Sea, threatening marine life and even posing a danger to humans, authorities warned this week.

There have been some hilarious reports going around on the internet about a new drug scare in American schools.

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out?

Nazi chiefs believed they could turn stones, sand and soil into gold, according to a new book.

Investigators probing a giant mudslide in Germany that killed three people are using old RAF maps to locate a top secret Nazi underground factory that may have triggered the disaster.

UFOs shut down an airport in China’s Zhejiang province and turned heads in a major city, but a renowned space expert says the strange lights in the night sky will likely just be more identifiable flying objects.

In many cases where diabolical summoning has reputedly taken place, animal skulls have been discovered, as if such forms have been used for sacrifice or eerie decoration.

Radivoke Lajic, 50, said that his house being hit by rocks from space was the result of an extraterrestrial grudge.

The stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared — “I’m sure she’s my kid … I just don’t know why she’s BLONDE.”

US firm Raytheon has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire.

With an effective treatment in place, researchers are turning their attention to the ultimate goal.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is pursuing transformational solutions to our energy problems.

A redirection of government purchasing would create massive markets for clean power.

“The International Energy Agency estimates that energy efficiency will deliver 65 per cent of worldwide carbon cuts in the energy sector by 2020, and 54 per cent by 2030.”

Google is buying 20 114 megawatts of wind power from NextEra Energy in a deal that will last for the next 20 years.

Lake Erie is about to join Cape Cod in hosting one of the first offshore wind farms in the United States.

If you live even part of the year at one of the remote bases in Antarctica, chances are you use whatever meager resources are available to you to get by day to day as you do your work.

A small village in New Mexico is using the sun in a new light. Corrales is using the power of the sun to help fight fires.

The miniature wind turbines are in fact part of a yearlong experiment that aims to generate enough wind power to reduce the building’s electricity bill while culling lessons about clean energy production.

In the mountain town of Carbondale, located just outside of Glenwood Springs, Clean Energy Collective founder and president Paul Spencer is helping to start a unique type of community garden he says has never before been tried in the United States.

The US Department of Energy has announced that $30 million in funding from the Recovery Act and financial year 2010 budget appropriations will be made available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of new technologies.

Scientists unveil an innovative and cheap method of delivering vaccines without the need for needles or medical experts

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, have found remarkably similar brain changes to those seen in autism in infant monkeys receiving the vaccine schedule used in the 1990’s.

If you are feeling sleepy, it might be thanks to your astrocytes.

Victims of catholic priests in Belgium keep pressing for justice in the face of church lies.

The Lutheran’s first female bishop has resigned after being exposed for protecting pedo priests and their abuse.

A Hasidic Jew was finally prosecuted for sexual abuse of a child but plea-bargained down to 16 counts of sodomy and was sentenced to only 2 years.

Coca-Cola has been forced to pull an Internet campaign after parents found the company using hardcore pornographic references to target children on Facebook.

Consumer Watchdog reports that Google has classified contracts to provide the Feds with information on US citizens.

Another case of catholic sexual abuse of children is headed to the courtroom, after the Church paid one of the victims to keep quiet.

Our current industrial agriculture model is unsustainable and is contributing to the destruction of the planet. A new sustainable organic agriculture is essential to the survival of man.

Is the highly classified project “Perfect Citizen” really designed to protect Americans or is it something else?

The Ex-head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence services admits that the war on the people of Iraq has greatly increased the chance of retaliation against Britain for its atrocities.

Another potentially toxic franken-food has been unleashed without any safety testing.

The global drug trade is in reality run by wealthy ruling families and corporations who use taxpayer funded anti-drug programs to kill off their competition.

The global food distribution system is fatally broken thanks to the greed of the rich and powerful. As a result, more than 1 billion people can’t afford to eat, while surplus food is simply thrown away.

People with celiac disease and others who avoid gluten should beware that foods that are supposed to be naturally gluten-free are often contaminated, warns a new study.

The reverence with which so many upper-middle class Americans read The Economist has always been puzzling.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday mobilized members of the California National Guard as part of a federal effort to deter drug trafficking and illegal immigration along the border with Mexico.

A blogging service with 70,000 users has been forced to permanently close its doors under orders from unidentified law enforcement officers.

With twenty-five thousand people who died, 500,000 were injured, the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal’s gas tragedy over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever.

Despite overwhelming evidence that the integrity of both the well and the BOP has been compromised, the Federal Government has decided to allow BP to keep the well closed a move that is all reward and no risk for BP.

For centuries Ghanzou’s drainage system, an innovative feat of engineering during the Song Dynasty, served as the digestive tract of the city, flushing and channeling water for its population.

Brussels is to hold an EU summit with atheists and freemasons in the autumn, inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc holds with Europe’s religious leaders.

A newly-developed heat-ray gun that burns the skin but doesn’t cause permanent injury is now with US troops in Afghanistan.

Scientists in the US claim to have genetically engineered a malaria-resistant mosquito.

Ancient hunters who stalked the world’s last woolly mammoths likely helped warm the Earth’s far northern latitudes thousands of years before humans began burning fossil fuels.

A new theory explains why tectonic plates move at different rates and solves other long-standing problems in Earth sciences, Australian scientists said.

Turning previous theories on their head, an Indian-origin researcher has claimed that there are many solitary sun-like stars in the universe, which exist without any stellar companion.

The remains of a 3,000-year-old temple dating from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II have been unearthed in the excavations in Upper Egypt’s Ehnasia archaeological area.

An increasing number of children are being accused of witchcraft in parts of Africa, the UN children’s agency says.

A group of Illinois office workers observed a “copper colored, brightly flashing” object that hovered in the daytime sky while “smaller pieces appeared to be breaking away and falling rapidly” to the ground.

Thousands of Haitians have made their traditional religious pilgrimage to the Saut d’Eau waterfall, though the country still reeled from the devastating effects of last January’s earthquake.

A new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest argues that synthetic dyes should be banned because they pose “A Rainbow of Risks” without any real benefits.

A millimeter-sized diamond bullet fired from a linear accelerator could produce nuclear fusion when it collides with a chunk of solid methane, according to a study by Chinese researchers.

Nuclear energy is looking like it will be a big part of a fossil-fuel-free future in the U.S. But the big question remains as big as ever: What’s to be done with the waste it generates?

It’s not exactly rocket science, but the same company that builds the rocket boosters that launch the Space Shuttles into orbit has a novel idea for bringing down the cost of carbon capture.

As more information drips out, the role of Washington in the June 24 political coup against former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd looms ever larger.

Secret US intelligence gathering has grown so much since 9/11 no-one knows its exact cost, nor how many people are involved, the Washington Post reports.

Advances in the fields of nanotechnology, neurology, psychology, and artificial intelligence might someday be used by governmental authorities to control the population.

British citizens face being subjected to chilling new EU ‘Big Brother’ surveillance and investigation powers.

A new report has revealed that young women serving in the Israeli army kill the besieged people of Gaza by remote-controlled weapons like video games.

Are technological advances infringing on our right to privacy?

In a new and vicious attack on the lawyer, Federal District Judge John G. Koeltl resentenced the disbarred civil liberties attorney to 10 years in prison on trumped-up charges of assisting terrorism.

Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scholar who returned home after being kidnapped by CIA in Saudi Arabia last year, said that Israeli agents interrogated him while he was in the US.

Undertakers in Belgium have said they want to save the environment by liquefying corpses instead of cremating them.

The ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests has been made a “crime against the faith” by the Vatican and subject to discipline by its watchdog.

An unidentified flying object (UFO) forced Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China to cease operations on July 7.

A tiny white mushroom may have triggered fatal heart attacks in hundreds of villagers in south west China, scientists have said.

A newly released video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could add some additional strain to the sometimes tense relationship between him and President Obama.

There is a “coherent and significant connection” between radiation from Vatican Radio aerials and childhood cancer, researchers have said.

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

They have been credited with supernatural or paranormal properties since the days of ancient Egypt. Now the putative power of pyramids is to be harnessed by Indian police to cut road accidents.

Birds use their right eye to see the Earth’s magnetic field and use it to navigate, scientists have discovered.

Much of life on Earth gets regularly wiped out every 27 million years, according to boffins. It had been thought that this was caused by a dark star named “Nemesis”, but apparently that was wrong.

After attracting controversy over its supposed finding of a mysterious Horse Boy and a two-headed man with three legs, Google Street View is facing a serious controversy concerning privacy.

Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.

A talk on China’s state-sponsored offensive security efforts scheduled for the Black Hat conference later this month has been pulled from the conference.

The great grandson of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, has been sentenced to life in prison for spying for Cuba.

BP’s use of chemicals to disperse the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has become a source of concern for the US, with lawmakers warning of another “Agent Orange” scandal.

Returning home to a hero’s welcome, an Iranian scientist claims he was abducted by the CIA and pressured to lie about Tehran’s nuclear programme.

One of two recent UFO sightings in China occurred almost on the 63rd anniversary of news that a “flying disc” had been found in Roswell, New Mexico.

Sometimes a problem is so big, one country cannot handle it alone.

NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere.

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has beamed back close-up photographs of asteroid Lutetia, an ancient, cratered relic from the dawn of the solar system.

In a season of crises, from Iran to North Korea to the Gulf of Mexico, the revelation of a Russian spy ring in the United States has been greeted as a source of welcome comic relief.

A UK unmanned solar-powered plane will attempt to set a remarkable new endurance record in the coming days.

More gloom on the subject of policing our oceans. Talks broke down regarding whaling at the IWC (International Whaling Commission) talks in Agadir.

It is clearly stated in Article 5 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights that, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

After years of welcoming well-heeled tourists from around the world with open arms, one of Tuscany’s smartest, most discreet beach resorts is in revolt against outsiders, wealthy or not.

This is what Heather Hill eats: French fries, pasta with butter or marinara sauce, vegetarian pizza, cooked broccoli, corn on the cob and cakes and cookies without nuts.

The European Parliament appealed on July 7th for a ban on the sale of foods from cloned animals and their offspring.

We have overlooked a power source boasting far greater reliability and intensity than both solar and wind power. It produces NO carbon footprint. You could even say it creates a negative carbon footprint.

Grant Cameron runs the web site Presidential UFO, where he makes the case that various presidential administrations have shown either interest in, or some involvement with, UFO phenomena.

New Zealand is to help fund the construction of a solar power plant in Tonga which will lessen the need for reliance on polluting diesel-generated power.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced July 6th that it will join other California business, civic, labor and environmental organizations in opposing Proposition 23.

Activists on Saturday purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a state-sanctioned auction in Nevada to keep the horses from going to the slaughterhouse.

On Sunday, July 11th, the new Moon passed directly in front of the sun, producing a total eclipse over the South Pacific.

Because consumers seem to be reluctant to pay extra for renewable energy, if government assistance dries up, green energy is in serious trouble.

The EU, which has missed its 2010 renewable energy target by 75%, is turning towards North Africa for sustainable energy sources.

President Barack Obama announced nearly $2 billion in government loan guarantees for two solar projects, placing bets on both solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies.

Tata, one of the largest business groups in India is planning to launch innovative clean energy technologies in rural areas to grab the opportunity of India’ rapidly expanding power sector.

An innovative green-energy financing program hailed by the White House as a way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions while creating jobs is in trouble after U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) vetoed the program.

A change in the way that the war in Afghanistan is fought could be on the way.

Paul Krugmana writes that immediate fiscal austerity isn’t really based on either evidence or careful analysis. It’s time to separate fact from fiction.

Has digital communication changed how we behave? In some superficial ways, the answer is clearly yes.

Terms like “extinction event” are pressurizing the paranormal airwaves like the gigantic methane bubble that scientist Richard C. Hoagland says BP’s errant rig has caused to form in the Earth’s upper crust.

The government is handing out $2 billion for renewable energy projects that will create thousands of jobs and clean power for homes, President Obama announced Saturday.

The Minister of Natural Resources announced a collaborative agreement under the Canada–U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue that will focus on clean energy research and development.

Popular imagination conjured up flying and amphibious cars. Serendipity (as much as utility) still defines what we drive, and how we drive. Something, somewhere, burns when we move.

The EcoWatch Journal reports that Ohio is on track to install the first fresh water wind farm in the U.S.

In America’s efforts to go green, our Achilles’ heel is transportation – as cars, trucks and buses represent 29 percent of U.S. energy use, according to a renewable energy expert.

This opinion piece, by Andrew C. Revkin, looks at the efforts of the United States Senate to seek action, this summer, on an energy bill with some restrictions on greenhouse gases.

Abound Solar, the cutting-edge clean-energy firm that started at CSU, will add 300 new jobs in Northern Colorado and 900 in Indiana as it expands with the help of federal loan guarantees.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published an analysis today of the economic impact of the American Power Act (APA), released by Senators Kerry and Lieberman mid-May.

At a former industrial site on Chicago’s South Side, more than 32,000 solar panels slowly tilt every few minutes, following the sun as it moves across the sky.

Scientists at the United States Library of Congress have revealed the moment when Thomas Jefferson altered the Declaration of Independence to set the course of American history.

If celebrating triple-digit birthdays sounds appealing, scientists may be able to determine if you’re likely to live that long.

A day after senators met with President Obama over what to do about energy reform, four groups launched a new set of ads calling for the Senate to take action in passing energy and climate legislation.

Cancer survivors, better work up a sweat. New guidelines are urging survivors to exercise more, even — hard as it may sound — those who haven’t yet finished their treatment.

Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago — and they’ve named it after the author of “Moby Dick.”

GE’s energy finance division has invested in a project in the process of building 11 new wind farms in Idaho.

Key Senate Democrats offered to scale back their efforts to cap greenhouse gas emissions but stressed that they and President Obama remain committed to putting a price on carbon this year.

San Francisco’s requirement for retailers to disclose cell phone radiation levels has the industry in a tizzy.

After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP – the Swedish Pirate Party, which intends to host the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The Iran-Contra case was just one aspect of extensive crimes carried on by the sinister forces infecting Washington.

In this month’s newsletter, Lilian talks about her wonderful interaction with a group of people working for a local circus, and more.