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May 31, 2006: A Whole
Lot of Shaking
Earthquakes
have definitely been in the news. The massive one in Indonesia
has killed at least 3,000 people and we even had a nice
little shaker here on Guam last week. Earthquakes are
caused by lava movement inside the Earth and the Indonesian
earthquake and our earthquakes here have the same cause.
But "Earthquakes" aren’t the only quakes
in the solar system. There are also Marsquakes and interestingly
enough, Moonquakes MORE>>
Two years ago,
it was announced that scientists had found the fossils
of a humanoid species that grew no larger than a three-year-old
modern child. Join us this week as we talk about scientific
controversy and tiny people. MORE>>
I don’t
know about you, but I looked in the sky last month (it
is by the way, wonderful, to have ‘looking at the
sky’ as a part of your job description!) and was
pretty much convinced that Anatahan had blown its top
again. The sunsets were noticeably more colorful and there
was an unnatural haze in the air that looked a whole lot
like VOG (a contraction for Volcanic smOG). When I checked
with my friends at the weather bureau, they told me that
it wasn't Anatahan that was the culprit MORE>>
Don’t
you just hate mud daubers, aka wasps or bees? They’re
everywhere and anything you leave outside is soon home
to all those yucky little dirt pots with the holes in
the top. Some of them are dangerous and more people die
from bee and wasp stings every year in the USA than die
from snake bite. So, what good are they? MORE>>
This weeks
topic on THE DEEP is an ancient terror and it’s
been around a long time. It’s something that could
definitely be more personal, more immediate and more dangerous
than virtually any other danger you face. It has been
said that if you really have influenza, for the first
three days you’re afraid you’ll die and for
the next three days, you’re afraid you won’t.
MORE>>