Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe – in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us.
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Man Evicted Because He Laugher Too Much
A Berlin man who laughed too much and too loudly was evicted from his flat after neighbors complained, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Juergen Olschewski, 59, was forced to leave his home in the working class district of Wedding because he “violated the rules” by laughing loudly, the daily Bild said.
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Sleep Less – Live Longer
Sleeping longer — eight hours or more a night — could shorten your life, according to a study of the nighttime habits of more than a million Americans released on Thursday.
Researchers from the University of California at San Diego found in a study of adults aged 30 to 102 that people who slept eight hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die within the study’s six-year period compared to those sleeping seven hours.
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First Known Outbreak of Pet Cloning
A domestic cat was cloned late last year in a Texas A&M University research program called CopyCat, which marked the first time a pet has been cloned, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Cloning research at the university has been funded with more than $3.5 million in investments from John Sperling, an 81-year-old financier who formed Genetic Savings & Clone Inc. Good name, huh?
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Predicting Civil War
A recent paper written by political sociologist Craig Jenkins has formulated a system that measures the level of conflict within countries giving forecasters early warning signals of when a nation is approaching a civil war. The “conflict barometer” processes the raw material of unrest – analyzing thousands of Reuters news articles.
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Liquid Magnets
After twenty-five years of research and development, MagnetiCare LLC is announcing its patented magnetic lotion (US 6,186,940) REJUV MAGNETIC LOTION. The FDA says this stuff is safe. Its primarily used to boost a person’s electrical system. It work well on acne, scars, burns, insect bites, stretch marks, and a few other things they haven’t discovered yet.
(This is a long site so you’ll have to scroll down. But its worth taking a look.)
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The Inventor Boot Camp
This one-day intensive workshop is designed to give serious inventors the straight scoop on how to take an idea and bring it to market. The Inventor Boot Camp is a one-of-a-kind event with one of the best presentation staffs in the invention industry. Created by a crack team of innovative thinkers, the Boot Camp is an extremely powerful event.
The Boot Camp launches March 9, 2002 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Westin Hotel in Westminster, CO.
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Prison Offers Viagra to Sex Offenders
Doctors at Norway’s national prison are under scrutiny for prescribing Viagra pills to inmates serving time for sexual crimes, officials said on Tuesday.
The chief county medical officer of health confirmed that Viagra had been prescribed to at least two sex-crime inmates but defended the use of the anti-impotence pills.
More about those wacky Norwegians here.
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Big Brother Is Watching
Washington police are building what will be the nation’s biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday. More about our voyeuristic government here.
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Wearable Internet Appliance
An article in JapanToday is reporting that Hitachi has produced a Wearable Internet Appliance with head mount display (800 x 600) and a pointing device (all at @500 grams total). Surf the Web via PHS or wireless LAN on a wearable SH-4 32Bit RISC processor running Windows®CE 3.0. It should be available end of February 2002.
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January’s Top 10 Viruses
CIO.com’s Security and Privacy Research Center has secured the rights to be the first to publish the Top 10 viruses each month as reported by antivirus vendor Sophos. Here’s a look at the top ones in January 2002.
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Impulse Gravity Generator
The two pioneers of the science of controlling gravity are working hard to prove their latest findings . Russian scientist Dr. Eugene Podkletnov and Italian researcher Giovanni Modanese are leading the charge to give mankind the ability to control the universe. Are we up for this?
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