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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Terrafugia unveils new design for TF-X autonomous flying car!

WALTHAM, Massachusetts (PNN) - July 21, 2015 - Flying-car developer Terrafugia has released new designs for its planned TF-X model. The TF-X is a planned autonomous flying car that was announced back in 2013. The updated design shows a sleeker body shape, a one-tenth scale model of which will be tested in a wind tunnel at MIT.

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Scientists can now control mice brains wirelessly!

BOULDER, Colorado (PNN) - July 21, 2015 - Researchers have a hard time understanding how tiny changes to networks of neurons in an animal's brain can affect its behavior. Now a team of researchers has figured out a way to tinker with the neural networks of mice in real time, using a wireless controller that can both shine light on the brain and deliver drugs to it. The device even lets scientis

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Commentary: Safety and civil liberties: is corporate clout calling the shots?

By Jim Carrey

July 20, 2015 - Let me be clear: I fully support the use of vaccines and believe they play a vital role in protecting the health of individuals and the public at large. That does not mean, however, that every vaccine is healthy, imperative, or right for every individual in every circumstance.

Over the past few centuries, vaccinations have saved millions from

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Scientists uncover shocking discovery underneath the Easter Island heads!

EASTER ISLAND (PNN) - July 17, 2015 - As if they weren’t mysterious enough.

The giant stone statues scattered around remote Easter Island are even more impressive than they first appear. Hidden from view, the heads are attached to bodies that extend meters underground.

The bodies are covered in ancient and as of yet indecipherable writings called petroglyphs.

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Commentary: Are big banks using derivatives to suppress bullion prices?

By Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler

July 8, 2015 - We have explained on a number of occasions how the Federal Reserve’s agents, the bullion banks (principally JPMorganChase, HSBC, and Scotia) sell uncovered shorts (“naked shorts”) on the Comex (gold futures market) in order to drive down an otherwise rising price of gold. By dumping so many uncovered short contracts into th

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The key to awesome future robots could be seahorse tails!

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (PNN) - July 5, 2015 - The key to better, tougher and more coordinated robots as well as improved surgical procedures, among other advances, could derive their inspiration from an unlikely source - the odd, square tail of the all-around strange seahorse.

While most animal tails are cylindrical in cross-section, the seahorse has a unique, squared tail that no

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DARPA wants to turn Mars into Earth with designer organisms!

ARLINGTON, Virginia (PNN) - June 26, 2015 - The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working to create designer organisms that would have abilities to terraform the Red Planet into Earth.

Virginia-based DARPA is trying to develop a technological toolkit by genetically engineering a wide range of organisms. This toolkit will have abilities to transform hosti