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THE DEEP Show Archives - May 2006
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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>>

  LINKS: NASA Space.com
   
May 24, 2006: The Long and the Short of It

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>>

  LINKS: National Geographic Washington Post
   
May 17, 2006: The Rainmaker...

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>>

  LINKS: BBC China Daily
   
May 10, 2006: Float like a Butterfly...

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>>

  LINKS: The Wasp Hound War on Terror
   
May 3, 2006: Feeling Sick Yet?

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>>

  LINKS: CDC More Flu Information