Rainy conditions around the midwest this fall have ruined the pumpkin crop,
leaving retailers at a loss for canned pie filling. The LA Times says that Nestlé, which controls 85% of the pumpkin crop for canning, is all out of pumpkins. The company issued a surprise apology, saying that the rain had destroyed the remains of an already-small crop. Nestlé plans to stop shipping canned pumpkin after Thanksgiving, and the company says that once this season’s supply is gone, there won’t be any more pumpkins available for canning until August 2010.
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Something new about Down Syndrome.
Doctors say increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome that hinder learning and make it hard for the brain to develop normally.
They said mice with a rodent version of Down syndrome that were injected with drugs to increase levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine showed improvements in their thinking ability.
The finding points to a new way of trying to improve some of the deficits seen in Down syndrome, which affects 5,000 newborns in the United States each year.
The study was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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A ladies’ man in love with himself is bringing his charms to “The Simpsons.”
“The Simpsons” held a contest to give fans the chance to dream up a new character, and Ricardo Bomba is the winning entry.
He’s the creation of Peggy Black of Orange, Conn.
Black said she decided that “The Simpsons” was lacking a narcissistic Casanova and came up with the character.
He’ll make his small-screen debut in the Jan. 31 episode of “The Simpsons.”
More than 25,000 entries were received in the contest for the show, which is marking its 20th year on TV.
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Do you think you sound like John Paul George or Ringo?
Not singing. Talking.
They’re holding open auditions for the 3D remake of
“Yellow Submarine,” due from Disney in 2012.
The auditions are the weekend of Nov. 28-29 at a Beatles Convention in Stamford Connecticut
No singing ability required but you have to have a good Liverpool style accent.
The Government Accountability Office says some of the money designed to help disabled military veterans who run small businesses isn’t getting where it needs to be due to fraud. The GAO says some companies grabbing parts of the $4 billion pie aren’t small businesses, or even run by veterans.
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A new study out of MSU says – the more prominent and financially successful a corporation becomes, the more likely it is to break the law.
MSU’s Yuri Mishina and colleagues say that unrealistically high pressure on thriving companies increases the likelihood of illegal behavior, as the firms are faced with continuously maintaining or improving their performance.
The MSU scientists found that high-performing companies tended not to be able to sustain that high level of performance over time. At the same time, high performing and highly prominent companies tend to be the ones that are punished most severely for not meeting performance expectations. And so, Mishina say it becomes a choice: Do I cut corners to try to meet these high performance goals and maybe get caught, or do I accept the results of not meeting my performance goals and be punished for sure.”
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Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” took in a record $550 million worldwide during its first five days on sale, according to internal company figures.
That tops the previous record of just over $500 million set by “Grand Theft Auto IV” last year.
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Operators of a Catholic shrine in Maryland thought they had been blessed with a big donation this month when a worker found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds.
But officials at Mount St. Mary’s University say that the bags of money had only been left at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes for safekeeping.
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Shrine Director William Tronolone says the owner returned to retrieve them about a week later.
He says she told him she wanted the Blessed Virgin Mary to watch over her treasure while she was out of town.
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J.C. Penney is pulling the plug on its “big book” catalogs. The company says consumer habits have changed. So, with more people browsing and buying online, J.C. Penney says there’s less of a demand for its twice-a-year mega catalogs. Elimination of the big books will save a lot of trees, too. J.C. Penney officials figure their paper use will be cut 25 percent to 30 percent next year.
How would you like to DRINK A LIVERWURST SANDWICH? One company thinks liverwurst is a dish best served warm, liquified, and in a bottle. “MeatWater,” which has marketed an entire line of quirky drinks, has just released its 50th flavor — “Liverwurst Sandwich.” Yum.
Is your kid a little brainiac?
Mark Burnett, who produces the TV shows “Survivor,” “The Apprentice” and “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” hopes to prove his genius again with reality TV. He’s launching a new show called “Our Little Genius.” This game show gives real life child geniuses ( ages 6 to 12,) a chance to test their knowledge and win big money” for their families. If you’d like to nominate your little Einstein, click on OurLittleGenius@yahoo.com.
Microsoft wants to be more touchy-feely
Windows 7 operating system includies a lot of touch screen features.
It’s called Multitouch, and we’ll be able to finger paint, play music or rotate our phots with our fingers on the screen
Dell and Gateway and others planning to trot out their touch reader computers shortly.
Catholic churches in Italy are installing automatic holy water dispensers to help reduce the risk of spreading swine flu. The outbreak of the H1N1 virus has led many churches to suspend the tradition of having holy water in open fonts where people dip their hands.
The new machine squirts out Holy Water automatically when someone passes their hand under the spout.
Former Alaska governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has picked Michigan to kick off her book tour. Palin will sign copies of her new book “Going Rogue” at the Barnes and Noble book store on 28th street in Grand Rapids from 6-9pm November 18th.
Palin says last year, she made a promise to the people of Michigan that she would be back, and now she’s keeping that promise. Her eldest son, Track, lived with a host family in Michigan during his hockey days.
Police in Los Angeles are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport scuffle between former boxing champion Mike Tyson and a photographer. Both men ended up being booked and released on suspicion of misdemeanor battery following the incident at LAX.
Ghost hunters, go home. A mid-Michigan cemetery has been ruled off-limits to ghost hunters looking into the unsolved murders of four people in 1883. The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports that officials in Spring Arbor Township denied their request to spend several hours at the Crouch Cemetery.
That at the age of 77, Navy veteran, Richard Ramsey is likely the oldest person in the U.S. to undergo a sex-change operation.
He now goes by the name of Renee. He is one of about 700,000 people in the U.S. who would describe themselves as transgendered.
During his life as a man, he married twice, and is the father of four children.
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Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft’s online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
600,000 gamers may have been affected.
There are 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console “violates” the service’s “terms of use” and would result in a player being disconnected.
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Something has happened to Celine Dion’s pregancy.
In August, her spokesman confirmed that Dion was expecting.
There were a number of reports claiming she was carrying an embryo that had been frozen in liquid nitrogen for several years.
A family source now says that while the singer and her husband are actively trying for another baby, she is not currently expecting.”
No other details about how exactly the pregnancy ended.
She is 41 years old.
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A wild scene down in Florida. A crash involving a pick up truck and the acquarium at Tampa International Airport. The 36 year old driver and the six year old child in her lap survived.
The tropical fish were not so lucky.
Police say the driver llost control of her truck and drove into the saltwater tank outside the American Airlines baggage claim in Tampa.
About 90 percent of the saltwater fish in the tank were killed.
The airport spent $200,000 on the exhibit.
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Butterflies in space?!
Students nationwide are getting a chance to see how butterflies develop in space, compared to here on earth.
A University of Colorado experiment will feature monarch and painted lady butterfly larvae aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle lifts off for the International Space Station on Monday.
About 100 elementary and middle schools nationwide are getting kits with butterfly habitats so they can compare them to those in the space station’s weightless environment. Photos of the butterflies in space will be taken every 15 minutes and be sent to earth to be uploaded to a Web site.
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Documentary maker Ken Burns is helping Michigan State University inaugurate its new film studies major. Burns lectures Dec. 2 at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. While on the East Lansing campus, he’ll meet with students about documentary film making.
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Do you believe in alien life in the universe?
Dozens of scientists from around the world have attended a five-day Vatican conference on the possibility of alien life in the universe and its theological implications.
Some Christian scholars have wondered whether alien species might have resisted temptation and remained sinless — or if they sinned, how God might have offered them salvation. (!)
The director of the Vatican Observatory has said the discovery of intelligent extra-terrestrials wouldn’t contradict Christian faith because they would still be God’s creatures.
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A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window with the phrase “I Believe.”
Judge Cameron Currie said in her ruling that the license plate is unconstitutional because it “amounts to a state endorsement not only of religion in general, but of a specific sect in particular.”
Christian advocates tried to get the same license plate approved in Florida, but the bill did not pass its Legislature.
Relatives of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe are ready to go federal court to win the return of his body to Oklahoma. The Olympic gold-medal winner and football MVP has been buried out east in a town that changed its name to Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, to give him a final resting place - although Thorpe never set foot there.
After his death, Thorpe’s wife said she didn’t have the money to give him the burial she thought he deserved. In their lawsuit, Thorpe’s family members are planning to cite a 1990 federal law requiring the return of American Indian remains to their peoples.
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading “in the wild” in Australia.
The self-propagating program changes the phone’s wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message “ikee is never going to give you up”.
The worm, known as ikee, only affects “jail-broken” phones, where a user has removed Apple’s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.
An Atlanta city bus driver has been suspended for five days after passengers complained that he insisted they hold hands as he led them in prayer. On the bus.
The prayer last four to five minutes.
The bus driver has worked for the Atlanta city bus system for six years.
No word what they were praying for.
A key U.S. Senator says he will begin an investigation into whether the U.S. Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
Gamers are geeked about this.
“Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2″ comes out at midnight tonight, (Monday, November 9,)
It’s projected to be at least One of the biggest selling games of ALL time (including release day sales, and general sales).
Relatives of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe are ready to go federal court to win the return of his body to Oklahoma. The Olympic gold-medal winner and football MVP has been buried out east in a town that changed its name to Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, to give him a final resting place - although Thorpe never set foot there.
After his death, Thorpe’s wife said she didn’t have the money to give him the burial she thought he deserved. In their lawsuit, Thorpe’s family members are planning to cite a 1990 federal law requiring the return of American Indian remains to their peoples.
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading “in the wild” in Australia.
The self-propagating program changes the phone’s wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message “ikee is never going to give you up”.
The worm, known as ikee, only affects “jail-broken” phones, where a user has removed Apple’s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.
An Atlanta city bus driver has been suspended for five days after passengers complained that he insisted they hold hands as he led them in prayer. On the bus.
The prayer last four to five minutes.
The bus driver has worked for the Atlanta city bus system for six years.
No word what they were praying for.
A key U.S. Senator says he will begin an investigation into whether the U.S. Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
Gamers are geeked about this.
“Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2″ comes out at midnight tonight, (Monday, November 9,)
It’s projected to be at least One of the biggest selling games of ALL time (including release day sales, and general sales).
A 61-year-old Minnesota man named Dennis LeRoy has been sentenced to 180 days in jail after police say he got wasted at a Minnesota bar and tried to drive home on his tricked out piece of living room furniture.
His home-made vehicle, created from a La-Z-boy chair was equipped with a cup-holder, radio, headlight and a National Hot Rod Association sticker. It was powered by a converted lawn-mower.
Police say the man went to a bar, had 8 or 9 beers, left the bar, on his motorized recliner — which is capable of speeds up to 20 MPH — and crashed into a “real car” on the way back to his home.
Physically he’s ok. Legally he’s in trouble.
In Flint, everybody’s talking about a confrontation between a young man with a gun, and a senior citizen armed with a big bottle of pop.
77 year old Pat Gillespie says he was unloading groceries at his home near Mott Park in broad daylight when the thug approached him, told him to empty his pockets…and then pulled a gun.
Gillespie says he wasn’t going to give him anything.
He pulled out his two liter bottle of Pepsi, swung it at the gunman, and hit a “homerun.”
The gunman did get off a shot, hitting Gillespie in the groin with a bullet.
The gunman ran off.
Gillsepie was rushed to the hospital.
He says he’s fine..just a little sore
Were the pilots sleeping, arguing or WHAT?
Federal investigators are trying to figure out what caused a Northwest Airlines flight to overshoot Minneapolis by150 miles. The plane’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder have been sent to Washington for analysis. Investigators still haven’t questioned the pilots.
The FAA had notified the military, which was ready to scramble as many as four Air National Guard fighter jets, but none took to the air.
Some people are calling him a miracle baby.
Thousands of Muslims have been traveling to a remote town in war torn southern Russia, hoping to see the child.
He’s nine months old and his parents say the word Allah appeared on his chin soon after birth.
They say other verses written in Arabic appear from time to time on his skin.
His parents say it happens twice a week.
English researchers say a drug used to treat cancer can stop contractions and may prevent premature labor and births.
The Newcastle University team tested the drug Trichostatin A on tissue taken from 36 women undergoing a caesarean.
The researchers said the therapy worked by increasing the levels of a protein that controls muscle relaxation.
There’s been a major change in British law enforcement. U.K. police say officers patrolling crime-ridden parts of London will now be armed. Previously, British police haven’t routinely carried firearms on patrol. Guns are usually handled only by dedicated teams of marksmen.
Tickets go on sale Saturday for the return of Garth Brooks.
So far, they’ll be for sale for the weekends of December 11, January 1, January 22, February 12 and February 26. He’ll be in the Encore Theater at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. All tickets are the same base price of $143. Tickets go on sale 11 am Eastern. www.WynnLasVegas.com/boxoffice.
Sweet Streets
Grab your costume and go trick or treating at the Detroit Historical Museum (5401 Woodward Avenue in Detroit.) It’s the annual “Treats in the Streets” party Sunday (October 25) from 1-4pm in the museum’s very cool “Streets of Old Detroit’ exhibit. Crafts, candy and a special “Ha Ha Halloween Show.” Admission is free for all costumed kids under the age of 12. Adults $6. 313-833-1805. www.detroithistorical.com.
Lotsa Loot in Royal Oak
Downtown Royal Oak businesses invite you to come trick or treating during its 26th annual “Spooktacular” Sunday from 2-4pm. Candy, pumpkin bowling, cookie decorating, cider, donuts, crafts, coloring contest and free family film festival. 248-246-3065. www.downtownroyaloak.org.
British researchers say copper bracelets and magnetic wrist straps are useless for relieving pain in people with arthritis.
Scientists at the University of York say in their study, they found the bracelets and wrist straps provided no benefit: no relief for pain or stiffness.
An arthritis charity says people should not waste their money on the “therapies.”
Should we call him Dr. Jeff Daniels?
Actor, playwright, songwriter and Michigan native Jeff Daniels will receive an honorary Dr. of Fine Arts degree and will deliver the address at the University of Michigan’s Winter Commencement Dec. 20.
`The Simpsons” is giving you the chance to make others yellow with envy by creating a character for the animated TV series. The new Springfield resident will appear in an early 2010 episode featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin as guest star.
The contest, part of the Simpson’s 20th-anniversary celebration is open from today through Oct. 24. You can make your online submission at www.thesimpsons.com
The winner gets a trip to Los Angeles to work with producers and the show’s animation director.
Ceara Sturgis wants to be in a tuxedo for her senior yearbook picture. And the ACLU is threatening legal action if her photo isn’t accepted. Everyone at Ceara’s Mississippi high school knows she’s a lesbian. She’s an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school’s soccer team. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi says it will take the school district (Copiah County Schools) to court if Ceara can’t wear a tux, which is traditionally worn by boys for their yearbook headshots.
When you exercise do you think you’re better looking?
Scientists at the University of Florida say the simple act of exercise (and not fitness itself) can convince you that you look better.
The study is published in the September issue of the Journal of Health Psychology
For the executive who doesn’t have time to come down with the flu, a Japanese company claims it has invented a new form of protection — the anti-H1N1 suit.
Manufacturers say the suit can protect wearers from the swine flu virus, because it is coated with titanium dioxide, a chemical which breaks down when reacting with light, supposedly killing the virus upon contact.
They say the suit is proven to kill 40 percent of the latest flu virus in about three hours and will retain its protective capability even after being washed several times.
New research indicates A failing memory may not be the first mental problem to signal the onset of Alzheimer’s disease,
A University of Kansas study found a decline in other thinking and learning skills may be a warning sign years before diagnosis.
The spatial skills, such as reading a map or completing a jigsaw, seem to be the first to falter.
The Archives of Neurology study may help doctors to identify Alzheimer’s at an earlier stage.
What does cancer have to do with having a husband or wife?
A new study says adults who survived cancer as children may have a lower-than-average likelihood of getting married.
Men and women who had survived cancer of the brain or spine had the lowest marriage rate, with 62 percent having never married.
The findings in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
It’s being billed as the first online attempt to contact Michael Jackson beyond the grave.
It’s the first Twitter seance…which they call a “Tweance.”
It’s going to happen in London October 30.
A new study says eating certain kinds of fats may help obese women with diabetes actually trim some body fat. (!)
The study, of 35 older women with type 2 diabetes, found that supplements containing two types of fats — conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and safflower oil — led to healthy changes in body composition over four months.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2009.
Bugs in Your Computer?
Microsoft will issue its biggest ever security update tomorrow. (Tues. Oct. 13)
The update will include 13 bulletins to tackle 34 vulnerabilities.
Microsoft said that eight of the bulletins were rated as critical - the most serious sort of vulnerability. http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx
Blue Mondays
Hey America, ” does somebody have a case of the Mondays?”
Turns out…a lot of us do.
Apparently there is a 9.7 percent increase in happiness on Fridays compared with the worst day of the week, Monday. That is among the discoveries made by Facebook researchers with access to two years of anonymous “status updates” from 100 million users in the United States.
Another conclusion: holidays like the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Halloween make Americans happy, while days when celebrities like Michael Jackson or Heath Ledger die make Americans sad.
Drunks in China
In China, just being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver could get a person in trouble. The official China Daily newspaper reports China has proposed expanding a nationwide campaign against drunk drivers to include penalties against their passengers.
Juggling
Is it better for your brain for you to learn a new skill, or to just continue doing what you’re already good at.
A new study says try to learn something new, because the brain wants to be puzzled and learn new things. A study done at Oxford University found that learning to juggle significantly boosted connections between different parts of the jugglers’ brains.
The Oxford researchers say the same transformation was seen in all the jugglers, regardless of how well they could perform. They say it’s the learning process that’s important.
Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/nn.2412
I’ll Have What She’s Having
Mystery Meat. On purpose.
Something new at a Japanese restaurant called the Mystery Cafe.
You can order whatever you like… but that won’t be what you end up eating.
The restaurant wants patrons to expand their culinary horizons, so you get what the person before you ordered, and the next person gets what you ordered.
The point is getting people to taste something new .
New Michael Jackson Music
You can now get the first song from that Michael Jackson music documentary. “This Is It” is now available on the Web site www.MichaelJackson.com. The movie makes its debut later this month - and features backup vocals by Jackson’s brothers. The film makes use of rehearsal footage for Jackson’s planned London concerts. Jackson never got to do those shows because he died on June 25.
The Detroit Science Center is about to “take the wraps off” a dark but very dignified new exhibit called the “Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato.”
It features the actual bodies of 36 people who died about a hundred years ago in Mexico. And you’ll hear the story of how they became “accidentally mummified.”
The mummies have skin, hair, teeth, and in some cases, are still wearing their burial outfits (some of which are in beautiful condition.)
There are also exhibits on how death is “celebrated” in Mexico.
And (for “CSI” fans) check out the pathology lessons on what exactly is happening with these bodies.
I had a sneak peek on Thursday. It was fascinating.
But I think it could be disturbing for children under the age of 12.
A new study commissioned by Quicken (and the American Mustache Institute) says having a mustache may improve your chances of landing a higher paying job.
The study found that mustached Americans earned 8.2 percent more on average than those with beards and 4.3 percent more than the clean shaven.
Selestial Soap, in Traverse City, has introduced Outdoor Extreme Laundry Soap, the first 100% natural laundry product designed specifically for the needs of hunters, soldiers or even athletes. They say its for gear where scent, camouflage and maintaining the properties of high-tech fabrics are critical.
They say for soldiers, their uniforms will not glow when viewed with nightvision equipment
selestialsoap.com 231-944-1431.
Very Scary
Some critics say this is the scariest movie they’ve ever seen.
It’s a new one called “Paranormal Activity.”
The film follows a young couple who, convinced they’re being haunted by spirits, set up a video camera to monitor their bedroom over the course of 20 nights.
It was made in just a few days. The budget: just a few thousand dollars.
www.movie phone.com says no other film this millennium has proved so shockingly chilling or packed the kind of lingering effects to leave you shaken and utterly terrified of your own home.
Stonehenge and the Shroud of Turin
Researchers say a new find near Stonehenge shows the religious significance of the site.
It was more than just a calendar.
The scientists believe a newly discovered prehistoric stone circle and the larger Stonehenge circle may mark a “domain of the dead” that was linked to the “domain of the living” by the River Avon.
Meantime, an Italian Scientist says the Shroud of Turin is not a “miracle relic,”
it was man made.
Chemistry professor Luigi Garlaschelli says he was able to recreate the shroud using technology that was available in the 14th century.
He says the shroud is a medieval fake.
While admitting his funding came from an Italian association of
atheists and agnostics, he adds that this has had no bearing on the final results. He says if the Church wants to fund me in the future, that’s fine with him.
A new national survey finds weakening support for, and growing opposition to, abortion.
The Pew Research Center poll of more than 4,000 adults suggests that less than half of Americans now support legal abortion, with opponents of abortion growing in both strength and conviction.
The poll found support for legal abortion down sharply among Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Americans of all political persuasions since the Presidential election.
Pew researcher Greg Smith says supporters and opponents of legal abortion also have become more polarized, with about 40 percent of each now saying they don’t respect the opposite point of view.
We may be sniffing our way to a better memory.
A nasal spray has been developed by a team of German scientists who say a molecule from the body’s immune system (interleukin-6) when administered through the nose helps the brain retain emotional and procedural memories during REM sleep.
Could we de-evolve and the proteins in our bodies return to the old shapes and jobs they had millions of years ago.
A team of scientists now declares the answer is no.
Dr. Joseph Thornton at the University of Oregon says new mutations make it practically impossible for evolution to reverse direction. He says the mutations burn the bridge that evolution just crossed,”
Details in current issue of the journal “Nature.”
The New York Daily News is reporting that Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams’ severed head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility. That’s according to the new book “Frozen.”
It’s written by a former executive with the Arizona storage facility where Williams’ remains were sent.
Larry Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after Williams diied at age 83, technicians with no medical certification used crude equipment to decapitate Williams.
He also reports Williams’ severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.
Happy Birthday! (Where’s the party?)
Wayne County Parks will be celebrating its 90th Birthday with a party October 10 and you’re invited.
1-3 p.m.
at Elizabeth Park in Trenton.
We will have a bike parade, moonwalks, trackless train rides, performances by the Candy Band and the Gratitude Steel Band and much more.
History & Halloween
Trick or treating isn’t just for October 31st anymore. Start early at “Hallowe’en at Greenfield Village,” (20900 Oakwood Blvd Dearborn.) October 9-11, 16-18 and 23-25. Eight hundred hand-carved jack-o-lanterns, 11 treat stations, costumed characters, loot bags provided. Dress up or come as you are. Tickets start at $12.75. Kids 2 and under get in free. 6:30-9pm Fri, & Sat. 6:30-8pm Sun. 313-982-6001. http://www.hfmgv.org.
Free College Class for Kids (& Adults)
How fast is evolution? Find out Saturday morning at the University of Michigan’s fun, free, easy-to-understand Saturday Morning Physics Classes. 10:30am-11:30am. For ages 10 and up. 170 & 182 Dennison Building in Ann Arbor. Refreshments served before class. Free and open to the public. 734-764-4437. http://www.lsa.umich.edu
