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If you’ve been following NASA’s stream of the International Space Station, you may have seen footage of an unexplainable alien creature make its way across space much like a fish would. Somewhat translucent, the spotted creature could be more evidence of life alien life.

Unsurprisingly, NASA has remained mum on the subject. The space organization has no qualms about reporting alien life when it’s in bacterial form, according to Fox, either on a meteorite or on the planet Mars, but remains rather secretive when bolder discoveries are made. Could it be because they’re hiding something from the public?

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A new report claims that 25 countries have joined a massive spy ring and are using a new kind of tracking software to monitor their citizens. Americans will be somewhat unsurprised to learn that among the group made up of mostly authoritarian nations is the ole U.S. of A.

The complete list, according the New York Times, includes The United States, Australia, Mexico, Qatar, Singapore, Ethiopia, Canada, Germany, Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Estonia, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Brunei, Malaysia, Serbia, Netherlands, Vietnam, India, Czech Republic and the UK.

The technology is part of an advent of government-grade spy tools which have made spying on citizens many times more efficient, sophisticated, and worrisome. The 25 nations have been using tech sold to them by the Gamma Group which provides surveillance vans, advanced government training and something called FinSpy.

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Find Bigfoot, that elusive hominid who roams the forests of America, has never been more likely than it is now.

Hundreds of people and untold thousands of dollars have gone toward projects that prove Bigfoot’s existence and/or have set out to find him. Which one of these five people will be the one to come up with conclusive proof that Bigfoot exists?

5. Melba Ketchum’s Scientific Study

For the past five years this researcher and former veterinarian has been studying the genes found in samples of Bigfoot’s hair, blood, saliva, and urine. She claims that DNA evidence demonstrates that Bigfoot is an indigenous inhabitant of North America and that his species is the result of cross-breeding between a human female and another hominid approximately 15,000 years ago.

What makes Ms. Ketchum’s project unique is the amount of faith she has in her findings. She even submitted her paper to a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Unfortunately for the advancement of cryptozoology, “Novel North American Hominins: Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies” was not accepted to any journal.

Undaunted, Ms. Ketchum purchased the DeNovo Scientific Journal outright and has since published her work.

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Google says that the FBI is spying on you. Ignoring the fact that this is basically the pot and the kettle engaged in name-calling, let’s all take a moment to be afraid.

Wired reports, “Google said the number of accounts connected to National Security letters ranged between ‘1000-1999’ for each of the reported years other than 2010. In that year, the range was ‘2000-2999.’” The article goes on to assure us, “Google noted that the FBI may obtain ‘the name, address, length of service, and local and long distance toll billing records’ of a subscriber to a wire or electronic communications service. The FBI can’t use NSLs to obtain anything else from Google, such as Gmail content, search queries, YouTube videos or user IP addresses.’”

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Triclosan is a chemical found in hand soap, toothpaste, toys, meat and thousands of other products in your daily life. But it’s popularity is due to it being an incredibly potent biocide… and it may end up causing the formation of the next superbug.

(A biocide, by the way, is any chemical capable of killing living organisms, though usually in a selective way.) Raid is a biocide specifically designed to target insects; Roundup is one for weeds; and triclosan is a biocide that specifically targets bacteria. You’ve probably seen anti-bacterial soaps advertising that they kill 99.9% of all germs. That’s triclosan that is doing the heavy lifting.

Of course, we all want our soaps to kill germs and our toothpaste to prevent gum disease. But triclosan has the power to create superbugs that can’t be killed by any known antibiotic.

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Good news for people for whom touchscreens are too much effort. A new Samsung phone with eye-tracking technology will apparently be released next week.

But those weary of large corporations and the increase in privacy-encroaching technology might not think of the innovation is a positive. After all, if telephone companies now have the ability to track our eye movements, what’s to stop them from tracking other sensitive information or, worse, move on to track the final frontier: our thoughts.

Scheduled to be available to the public on March 14, the Samsung S4 will allow users to scroll down pages or even flip them using only their eyes… isn’t that mind-reading right there?

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For over a year, the health of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, has been deteriorating. Then, yesterday, came the unsurprising official announcement of his death.

Just as unsurprisingly, the controversial socialist leader leaves behind a series of mysteries and conspiracy theories.

5. Chavez Has Been Dead for Weeks

When a government is founded on personality politics, the death of a leader can be fatally disruptive to the administration.

This theory lends credence to the belief that Chavez actually passed away sometime in February and the administration has kept it a secret until succession plans were firmly in place. Yesterday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that snap elections would take place in 30 days, but few feel that the current list of candidates can fill Chavez’s shoes.

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Zero Dark Thirty didn’t win any major Oscars this past weekend, and it may be because of two United States Senators.

Critics are crying foul, claiming that it wasn’t a lack of cinematic worthiness that caused the Academy to turn against the film, but because Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial movie had been targeted by a far-reaching Hollywood and bipartisan political conspiracy. The U.S Senate is rumored to have probed the film after being influenced by rival producers as part of an awards-season smear campaign. Who says Hollywood can’t do drama anymore?

The probe was dropped before Sunday’s telecast but this wasn’t public knowledge until the day after First Lady Michelle Obama announced that Argo had won Best Picture. Coincidence?

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The lost city of Atlantis has just been found, it seems, after being lost for a millennium or several.

We first heard of the fabled city, which was more a sunken continent than city, through Plato, who described the inhabitants of Atlantis as being a technologically advanced but evil people. (In that case, it’s not clear why anyone would want to go looking for them.) Since then the legend has morphed, with Atlantis coming to be seen as a crystal-powered super utopia whose residents live in perfect harmony.

The Atlantic might be a huge place, but a century of high-tech nautical technology should have stumbled onto something by now. Plato narrowed Altantis’ location to somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, yet deep-sea navigation devices, radar, and submarines have found nothing until recently.

Last week, news arrived that a group of researchers had discovered evidence of a sunken ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean. Could it be the lost continent of Atlantis?

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