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From Science Daily --
People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks, are more likely to report hallucinatory experiences such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not there, according to the Durham University study. ‘High caffeine users’ – those who consumed more than the equivalent of seven cups of instant coffee a day - were three times more likely to have heard a person’s voice when there was no one there compared with ‘low caffeine users’ who consumed less than the equivalent of one cup of instant coffee a day.  With ninety per cent of North Americans consuming some of form caffeine every day, it is the world's most widely used drug.

from the Utne Reader --
A new form of censorship has quietly crept over the Internet. The new ways to restrict free speech don’t require killing information entirely, governments and private companies simply inconvenience and frustrate people away from information they want to keep under wraps. Computer science professor Harry Lewis writes for the Chronicle of Higher Education that the Internet's “rapid and ubiquitous adoption has created a flexible and effective mechanism for thought control.” As people increasingly rely on the Internet for their news and information, banishing something from the web means effectively striking it from the public consciousness. Governments have already begun to influence Internet usage inside of their countries to enforce social and political norms. Lewis writes that on the Internet, there is already “no sex in Saudi Arabia, no Holocaust denials in Australia, no shocking images of war dead in Germany, no insults to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey.”

China sits at the vanguard of this new form of censorship. The country’s famed “Great Firewall” is one of the most advanced information blocking tools in the world. Governments don’t have to censor all the information that comes into their country anymore, either. Censorship increasingly relies on one information bottleneck: Google. Jeffrey Rosen wrote for the New York Times that Google and its subsidiaries, including YouTube, “arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.” Governments and businesses now realize that banning information from Google means effectively censoring it from a massive audience of people, and they are developing strategies accordingly. If it's still up read this from Wired.

From AOL News --
With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education are making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program. How quickly and completely they reach their goal is uncertain, however, as conservative supporters of abstinence education lobby Congress and President Obama to preserve at least some of the funding, which now totals $176 million a year. And even if federal funding is halted, some states — such as Georgia — are determined to keep abstinence programs going on their own, ensuring that this front in the culture wars will remain active. Obama is considered an advocate of comprehensive sex education, which — unlike abstinence-only curriculum — includes advice to young people about using contraceptives if they do engage in sexual activity. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to elaborate on what the new president would propose in his own budget plan.

From PR Log --
Dream Interpretation is important in the modern world says Naomi Cramer of Auckland, New Zealand “In the mind of us humans, there is an intangible yet almost interchangeable border between dreams and reality. It is said that blessed are those who dream in color and great sensory detail, and especially blessed are those who vividly remember everything, or almost everything, from their dreams” says' , We don't just dream just so we can have a leisurely adventure time during our sleep. We dream because it is our Unconscious mind's turn to process everything we have experienced during our waking hours.

And finally from Russia's Pravda --
India has given birth to several geniuses. There lives a boy in one of the villages of this eastern country who, as people say, is capable of challenging Albert Einstein himself. His intellect however is not something that baffles people the most. The wonder boy also has a gift to cure cancer and HIV. It is known that the 11-year-old boy Akrit Jaswal from a small village of Nurpur has an IQ of 162. This little genius, despite his young age, is already working at a research Institute of oncology in Mumbai where he treats cancer. Crowds of people, including doctors, line up to be cured by the little Akrit. According to the boy, he has found a way to treat cancer and HIV genetically. He cannot explain exactly how he cures his patients yet. American research center that primarily focuses on studying gifted individuals has already declared the boy's genius. According to the director of the education council of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh B.R. Raji, they are currently investigating Akrit's talent as yet another proof of his extraordinary nature.

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