More earthquakes occurring Midwest due to fracking

Earthquakes are striking the heartland from Alabama to Montana at an unprecedented rate -- and human activity is probably to blame.
A new United States Geological Survey study has found that middle America between Alabama and Montana is experiencing an "unprecedented" and "almost certainly manmade" increase in earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater. In 2011, there were 134 events of that size. That's six times more than were normally seen during the 20th century.

While the changes in the area's seismicity began in 2001, the trend has really accelerated since 2009, the geologists note. That happens to coincide with increased oil and gas production using new extraction techniques in some parts of the area.

The new work is being presented at the Seismology Society of America's conference later this month. An abstract for the presentation is available online.

Saturday Night Movie- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust: Full Length Movie

Laser sets off firecracker, balloon doesn't pop! (fun video))

Fukushima Radiation Moving Steadily Across Pacific

Concentrated levels found as scientists sample the Pacific for signs of Fukushima

Teams of scientists have already found debris and levels of radiation far off the coast of Japan, one year after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Reports are now suggesting that nuclear radiation has traveled at a steady pace. That contaminated debris and marine life could reach the US coast as soon as one year from now, depending on ocean currents.

Radiation from Fukushima's nuclear disaster is appearing in concentrated levels in sea creatures and ocean water up to 186 miles off of the coast of Japan. The levels of radiation are 'hundreds to thousands of times higher than would be expected naturally' according to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Researchers are questioning how the radioactive accumulation on the seafloor will effect the marine ecosystem in the future.

Hutaree, Christian Warrior militia acquitted of sedition and conspiracy

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday acquitted seven members of a U.S. Midwestern militia group of all major sedition and conspiracy charges against them, two years after the FBI began arresting them following a long undercover surveillance operation.

The seven, members of a group known as the Hutaree, were accused of plotting to kill law enforcement officers as a way to incite a wider rebellion against the U.S. government.

Defense attorneys had argued their actions were protected by their First Amendment free speech rights.

In her ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Victoria A. Roberts agreed, acquitting the defendants on all counts related to sedition, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, training in the use of explosives and using firearms in the commission of a felony.

UFOs Over Las Vegas

UFOs are invading Las Vegas. That's right. Sin City has become the latest target of alien creatures always on the lookout for fun places in America to park -- or hover -- their ships.

Either that or some unusual formations of lights in the sky over the Egyptian-themed Luxor Hotel could simply turn out to be misidentified members of the B group -- birds, bats, bugs or balloons.

On March 21, a cluster of well-lit orbs was videotaped over the famous Las Vegas Strip by an Ohio visitor. The seven-minute video showed the objects dancing and darting and rotating around the sky in the vicinity of the Luxor's 30-story glass pyramid.

So you want to see a ghost?

What's the best way to see a ghost?

Everyone has the ability to see a ghost. You have to be totally relaxed and then look out of the side of your eye without turning your head. If there is something there to see, that is how you will see it. You also have to remember you can't see what isn't there. If there is no ghost present in the place you are in, then you are not going to see a ghost.

Why are ghosts here, and, what do they want?

Ghosts have free will and free choice so they can come and go as they wish. Some choose to go on and never come back while others like to keep track of what is going on in this world. What they want varies most of the time. Some may be around for something special as a wedding of a favorite child or grandchild or the birth of a child. But some of the main reasons are as follows: they died before they could complete something that was important to them and will stay until whatever they wanted done is completed. The person who is now a ghost or spirit wants to watch over a loved one and stays until the loved one is ready to die and then they go on together.

Ohio residents form paranormal investigation team

It says it on their business cards.

It says it on the back of their t-shirts.

"Pursuing explanations for the unexplained."

It's their motto, and it probably best describes what they do as a team.

Tom Cockerill, Mark Jarrell and Amy Looney make up the team known as Appalachian Paranormal Explorations (or APEX), a Washington C.H.-based paranormal investigations team that formed last May and has since gained some notoriety for what they do.

"We're not trying to get the next big television show," said Cockerill, the group's founder. "We treat it like it would be our regular job. But it's not."

Bus-Size Dinosaurs, as Fuzzy as Chicks

Fossils discovered in northeastern China of a giant, previously unrecognized dinosaur show that it is the largest known feathered animal, living or extinct, scientists report.
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Although several species of dinosaurs with feathers have already been uncovered in the rich fossil beds of Liaoning Province, the three largely complete 125-million-year-old specimens are by far the largest. The adult was at least 30 feet long and weighed a ton and a half, about 40 times the heft of Beipiaosaurus, the largest previously known feathered dinosaur. The two juveniles were a mere half ton each.

The new species was a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the mighty predator that lived 60 million years later, at the end of the dinosaur era. The scaly T. rex apparently did not go in for feathers.

Pesticide and Bee Colony Collapse: EPA faulted

MINNEAPOLIS -- In a spring ritual as old as life itself, Steve Ellis' bees return to their hives day after day loaded with pollen from the dandelions and flowering trees that are in full bloom across central Minnesota.

But for too many of them, a day of foraging ends in convulsions and death.

"You wouldn't think people could get attached to insects," said Ellis, a commercial honey producer from Barrett, Minn. "But it's hard for us to see our bees getting injured like that."

Hard enough that Ellis and other beekeepers from across the country last month asked the federal government for a temporary ban on one the most widely used pesticides until its effect on bees is clear. They fear it is contributing to a worldwide die-off and the inexplicable phenomenon known as "colony collapse disorder" that is devastating honeybee hives.

Colony Collapse Disorder = Bee Stress

Colony Collapse Disorder solved. Well, I guess it's been solved all along. The organic beekeepers experienced little, if any colony collapse disorder. Happy bees.

 Jacqueline Freeman is the author of an upcoming book "Bees, the OTHER Way". She points out the different strategies that conventional bee keepers might try to save their hives from colony collapse disorder.

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