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  • Brit Hume: Joe Biden a ‘walking time-bomb’ despite Democratic front-runner status

    05/21/2019 5:34:53 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 53 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 21,2019 | By Sam Dorman |
    "I like Biden on a personal basis, but I think he is a walking time-bomb," Hume said. "I think his age is an issue, I’m the same age as he is, my age is an issue, I think his is too... the filters don’t work as well, the memory isn’t as sharp. "You might blurt out things as he did the other day when he said China is no competitor of ours. Now, I can kind of get where he was coming from on that, meaning you know we are the best and nobody can beat us. But that’s not...
  • Why Some People Are Prone To Mosquito Bites

    08/30/2007 6:38:23 PM PDT · by blam · 89 replies · 3,126+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-30-2007 | Nic Fleming
    Why some people are prone to mosquito bites By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent > Last Updated: 7:01pm BST 30/08/2007 Scientists have worked out why mosquitoes make a beeline for certain people but appear to leave others almost untouched. Specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquito’s nose are tuned to identify the different chemicals that make up human body odour. To the mosquito some people’s sweat simply smells better than others because of the proportions of the carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that make up body odour. It is those people who are most...
  • Alien abductees prone to false memories - expert

    10/25/2005 11:53:40 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 86 replies · 1,085+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/25/05 | Reuters
    LONDON (Reuters) - Do you have memories of being abducted by aliens and whisked away in a spaceship?You wouldn't be alone. Several thousand people worldwide claim to have had such close encounters, researchers say. But in a new study, a psychology expert at London's Goldsmiths College says these experiences are proof of the frailty of the human memory, rather than evidence of life in other galaxies. "Maybe what we're dealing with here is false memories, and not that people are actually being abducted and taken aboard spaceships," says Professor Chris French, who surveyed 19 self-proclaimed alien abductees. Several of the...