1. A new study has found that it’s light that governs your sleeping patterns. Your eyes use light to reset your biological clock through a mechanism that is separate from your ability to see say researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Nature, April 2008

2. Oleg Shumilov of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia looked at activity in the Earth’s geomagnetic field from 1948 - 1997 and found that it grouped into three seasonal peaks every year: one from March - May, another in July and the last in October. He also found that these peaks matched up with peaks in the number of mood disorders i..le. depression, anxiety, bi-polar (mood swings) and even suicides in the Russian city of Kirovski over the same period - The NewScientist

3. Too many of us have heard stories - or have experienced the heartbreak ourselves - of cats being poisoned with antifreeze. While all cats and animals are vulnerable, stray and feral cats are especially likely to be victims of this poison. Antifreeze tastes sweet and appealing but contains extremely deadly ethylene glycol. Even a tiny amount can kill a cat. www.AlleyCat.org

4. According to recent research, ginger and broccoli may temporarily help relieve depression. www.Mercola.com

5. The Defense Authorization Act of 2006, passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist “incident,” if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of “public order,” or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations. James Bovard, the author of Attention Deficit Democracy

6. Senator Ted Kennedy, D- Mass, was rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts with possible stroke symptoms. He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. MGH neurologist Lee Schwamm said that a biopsy uncovered a malignanglioma in the left parietal lobe at the upper rear of the senator’s brain. Get the latest update: CNN.com

7. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”    Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.