The dark side of life in the 21st century is our societal proclivity toward addiction. From alcohol and opioids to video games, overeating, and porn, we live in a time where there’s a virtual cafeteria of addictions to choose from. While some may be seen as benign, others are downright deadly. PXHere Take opiod addiction for example. Here’s a little on the current epidemic we’re facing from the National Institute on Drug Abuse from drugabuse.

Yesterday we had a story about how Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge has played a major roll in exposing some secret government UFO programs and pulling the curtain back on some incidents that our military had with UFO’s and have kept secret. The biggest encounter that DeLonge helped expose is the one our military had with some UFO’s off the coast of California in 2004. This story was also picked up and reported by the New York Times.

Things are literally heating up on the big island of Hawaii as the USGS reported on Thursday that lava bubbling to the surface is the hottest and most fluid that officials have seen since the volcano started erupting four weeks ago. The warned that the temperature is actually even hotter. USGS Here’s more from FoxNews.com: “It’s hard to get to the center, which is the hottest portion of the fountain,” Stovall said.

People in the vicinity of Paris, Texas have been advised to call authorities if they see a giant swarm of bees attached to anything on their property. This is because a semi truck hauling 15 - 30 million bees overturned on the highway this past Monday. eParisExtra.com Here’s more from the CBSlocal.com: One witness said as her truck approached the scene, hundreds of bees buzzed around the vehicle. “It wasn’t enough to block out the sun, but we could tell it wasn’t normal.

One of the major factors in treating cancer is catching the disease early enough to attack it and stop it from spreading. Well, scientists from England have found a way to catch some types of cancer before they even start. Health.mil Experts are hailing this as a major breakthrough in humanity’s continued fight against the dreaded disease. Here’s more from The Independent website: A new blood test that allows doctors to detect 10 types of cancer years before a person becomes sick with the disease has been developed by scientists.

When we think of earthquake zones, we think of the area along the unstable and constantly shifting Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean or along one of the many major fault lines that runs through California, but after a recent discover in England, scientists are saying that London may be in the running for a pretty strong earthquake as well. Pixabay Here’s more from the Daily Mirror: Fault lines running under London could cause a magnitude five earthquake, scientists have warned.

David Broyles thought he was going in for a routine hernia surgery. After all what could be wrong with him? He was young, owned his own construction company, was an avid competitive mountain biker, and felt indestructible. That’s why he was shocked when, after the surgery, his doctor told him to get his affairs in order because he had mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, and only had six months to live.

With each passing day, marijuana becomes less and less stygmatized. New studies are showing its effectiveness in treating a variety of medical conditions and, culturally, it’s becoming more accepted, like alcohol, as a an acceptable way to relax and unwind. Public Domain As a result, the recreational and medical marijuana industries are booming and no place is this more apparent than in Massachusetts where voters approved the legal sale of the marijuana to anyone over 21 years old.

They say the eyes are windows to the soul, well according to this scientific study out of Italy, they’re also portals into completely altered states of consciousness. If this is true, then the illegal drug trade in this country may be in for some serious competition. From ScienceAlert.com: Pixabay Not only did the deceptively simple task bring on strange ‘out of body’ experiences for the volunteers, it also caused them to see hallucinations of monsters, their relatives, and themselves in their partner’s face.

Music fans know Tom DeLonge as the frontman for the rock band Blink 182 but in the world of paranormal investigations, he’s a rock star of a whole different kind. It seems that since he was a teenager, DeLonge has been obsessed with UFO’s and the paranormal. In fact, when he got the money from his first big record contract, DeLonge used the funds to buy a computer so that he could research the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligent life.