|
|
Friday Dec. 5, 2008 to Sunday Jan. 4, 2009
|
|
William Henry in Santa Monica on January 10
02-Jan-2009
Join
William
Henry in Santa Monica, CA on Saturday, January 10 from 11
am to 3 pm for his lecture presentation "The
American Enlightenment: The Dream Realized." The lecture
will be at the Zero Point
Research Center, 2834 Colorado Ave., #56, Santa Monica,
CA 90404, phone (310) 828-8473. Admission to the lecture is
$45, $35 for
Dreamland listeners.
Full Story
|
Earthquake Swarm in Yellowstone
01-Jan-2009
In earthfiles.com, our
Dreamland science reporter Linda Howe writes that
after many warnings, it's finally happened: Yellowstone has
become dangerously restless. But it's not the volcano
eruption that has
long been
anticipated, it's an "intense earthquake swarm," consisting
of 250 separate quakes, that could lead to an eruption.
Full Story
|
What's Predicted for 2009
01-Jan-2009
What's ahead for
2009?
Futurists are making the following predictions: Anxiety and
depression will threaten Americans' mental health, the US will
pull out of Iraq, 100 more banks will fail and healthy eating
will fall by the wayside. Keep reading for details.
Full Story
|
Why We're Adding a Leap Second in 2009
01-Jan-2009
…But we don't need to adjust our clocks -
The spin of the Earth is slowing down. Not by much; only
about 0.002 seconds a day (it varies), relative to our modern
definition of the second. The varying rotation of the Earth is
due to the cumulative effect of friction from the ocean's
tides, the moon’s orbital momentum, snow (and the lack
thereof) at the polar ice caps, the 23-degree tilt of the
earth, the atmosphere, solar wind, space dust and magnetic
storms. Because of all these factors, the earth does not
rotate EXACTLY one time every 24 hours (or 86,400 seconds).
Full Story
|
2009: Time to Quit
01-Jan-2009
Who finds it harder, men or women? -
The New
Year is coming soon, which is the time for all those
resolutions. We’ll bet that a big one on every smoker’s list is
quitting.
Women have more withdrawal symptoms but they also have
more reason to quit, because, contrary to what most women
believe, smoking makes you fat.
Full Story
|
Finding Out Who Reads
31-Dec-2008
The most literate cities will surprise you! -
A national survey measures a key component in America's
social health by ranking the culture and resources for reading
in America's largest cities, and two of them are in the same
state.
Full Story
|
Where are the Emissions Coming From?
31-Dec-2008
It's still a mystery -
Pollution cuts the earth in half and so does global warming.
NASA satellites are tracking just where, on the earth, the
most greenhouse gases are being emitted—so countries can
no longer plead ignorance about what's going on within (or
rising up from) their borders.
Full Story
|
Female & Fat?
30-Dec-2008
…But STRONG! -
Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial
benefits.The hormones that make women physically stronger,
more competitive and better able to deal with stress also
tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist, so in
societies and situations where women are under pressure to
procure resources, they may be less likely to have the classic
hourglass figure.
Full Story
|
Ad Talk
29-Dec-2008
The holiday
season is almost over, and desperate retailers are
bombarding us with advertisements that most of us
can't
afford to take advantage of. One of their most popular
inducements is to try to get us interested in the latest fad.
Full Story
|
Why Quitting is Harder for Blacks
29-Dec-2008
Everyone's top New Year's Resolution -
Quitting smoking is one of the top items on most people's
New Year's resolutions lists, and it certainly should be if
you're black because
blacks are
more unhealthy than whites—especially when it comes to
asthma—despite the fact that African-Americans are much
less likely to smoke than whites are during their teens.
Full Story
|
Torture
29-Dec-2008
Will our next president take the United States out of the
torture business? Human rights experts says that torture and
political imprisonment are on the rise in many countries
around the world and the United States is setting a bad
example. A famous experiment—done in the past and
replicated recently—may help explain why this is.
Full Story
|
Whitley's Journal: Christmas at Last!
24-Dec-2008
In his last
journal, Whitley seemed kind of gloomy, but he's cheered up
for Christmas. In his
latest
journal, he writes: "Christmas has come, and with it a
renewed sense of inner joy. I always have a rough time
between October and December, because that's the part of
1985 that I was dealing with the visitors, but unable to
consciously remember what was happening at night. When
you see in
Communion
the scene of me prowling around with the shotgun, that's
when it happened." If you love Whitley's
Journals (and Anne's diaries)—as well as our
extraordinary radio shows—support this site:
Subscribe
today!
Full Story
|
Life on Other Planets
24-Dec-2008
NASA can't keep it secret if it shows up on Google! -
Scientists are expanding the search for extraterrestrial life—
and they've set their sights on some very unearthly planets…
and it turns out there are LOTS of them! But if we DO find life
on other planets, there's a strong chance the general public
will never
hear about it.
Full Story
|
Do Unto Others
23-Dec-2008
UPDATE from Marla Frees! -
Many people think that Jesus was the author of "the golden
rule," but he was actually demonstrating his scholarship by
quoting Rabbi
Hillel. But is this a good rule to
live by?
Only if by "doing unto others," you're talking about POSITIVE
things.
Full Story
|
Anne's Diary: A Spiritual Journey
23-Dec-2008
Eight years ago, Anne Strieber wrote about Christmas as a
spiritual
journey. We feel that this diary is still important today,
so we're reminding you about it for THIS Christmas. If you
love Anne's diaries, support this site:
Subscribe
today!
Full Story
|
Christmas Smells
23-Dec-2008
What would the holidays be without those familiar scents—
the fresh spruce tree, peppermint candy canes, mulled cider?
But alas, some of these smells can be torture for those of us
who carry a specific gene.
Full Story
|
Internet Access to Middle East Cut Again
23-Dec-2008
It happened before, then it
happened
again and it's STILL HAPPENING: underwater internet cables
from connecting Europe and Asia to the Middle East have
been mysteriously severed.
Full Story
|
How to Be Happy This Christmas
22-Dec-2008
In the holiday season's flurry of shopping, gift-giving, parties
and celebrations, it's easy for the joy of the season to be
lost in heightened anxiety and depression. Despite the
recession, we need to remember:
Christmas is
a reason to be happy.
Full Story
|
Elephants in Zoos Have Shorter Lives
22-Dec-2008
Whitley communicated with an elephant in Portland Zoo.
Sadly, a new study comparing wild—and even working—
elephants with those found in zoos finds that the zoo animals
have much shorter lives, mainly because they don't get
enough exercise, so they get too fat.
Full Story
|
What Happens When YOU Get Cuffed?
22-Dec-2008
Many of us are
stressed out lately, and spikes of anxiety can cause
some people's blood pressure to rise when a doctor is
examining them, a phenomenon known as the "white coat
effect." But new studies show that there is ALSO a "reverse
white coat effect"—where some people's blood pressure goes
DOWN in a doctor's office.
Full Story
|
Once You Have Him, How Will You Feed Him?
19-Dec-2008
If you're pregnant, be sure to eat a low-fat diet, or else your
baby may be fat too—all his or her life! A study in rats shows
that exposure to a high-fat diet during pregnancy produces
permanent changes in the offspring's brain that lead to
overeating and obesity.
Full Story
|
Boy or Girl?
19-Dec-2008
Which parent determines the sex of their child? -
It turns out that it's mostly up to the man—if you
ARE the
dad! It may also depend on whether or not
dad
smokes.
Full Story
|
What Do Blind People See in Their Dreams?
18-Dec-2008
People who grew up watching black and white TV often
don't
dream in color. But do blind people see ANYTHING in their
dreams? One day we may be able to find out, because we'll
be able to SEE other people's dreams!
Full Story
|
Something Surprising About Lefties
18-Dec-2008
...something you wouldn't guess: they're SHY -
Something we wouldn't have guessed: people who are
left-
handed are more shy and easily embarrassed than the rest
of us.
Full Story
|
Do Those Expensive Cosmetics WORK?
17-Dec-2008
Are the beauty claims made by cosmetic companies too good
to be true? In a word, yes—sometimes
in
surprising ways. Some of us turn to them when we want to
cover up the green in our skin, but creams claiming to have
antioxidant properties can cheat ageing are probably
worthless.
Full Story
|
What to Do if You Think You Have the Flu
17-Dec-2008
IF you wear contact lenses! -
When you feel a cold or the flu coming on, take out your
contact lenses or reduce your lens-wear time, or your EYES
may catch a cold too!
Full Story
|
Dogs Get Jealous Too!
17-Dec-2008
Researchers claim to have found a basic form of jealousy in
dogs (but do you know how to interpret your dog's
tail wags
so you can figure out if YOUR dog has this problem?) Before
this, they thought that only primates
(that's
us!) were able to feel that emotion.
Full Story
|
Why Your Face is Red or Green
16-Dec-2008
Not because it's Christmas! -
We're all annoyed by those "red eyes" that show up in
photographs when we use a flash. But did you know that
men's FACES can turn out red too? (And WOMEN'S faces can
look green!)
Full Story
|
Crazy Ideas
16-Dec-2008
How does science get new ideas? One way is to hold a
contest.
When the rest of us (who aren't geniuses) want to know
something, we usually look it up on the internet. Now Google
has released the top 10 searchers on their site for 2008. Alas
they show a lack of imagination: Sarah Palin, Facebook and
Barack Obama. No wonder most of us will never win the X
Prize!
Full Story
|
Nuts!
16-Dec-2008
If you're eating a traditional
Mediterranean diet for good health, add a daily
serving of mixed nuts, especially if you have
metabolic
syndrome (which so many Americans do!) And should you
worry about your child becoming allergic to nuts? Finally,
there is a mysterious shortage of acorns along the East Coast
this year. They aren't on the ground, meaning they weren't
on the oak trees either. Are oaks being affected by pollution
or global warming? For scientists, this is a mystery, but for
squirrels, this could mean
war!
Full Story
|
Pirates!
15-Dec-2008
Still with us today -
It's hard to believe that
pirates
are back in our world. In many ways, the Somali pirates bear
a striking resemblance to those of the so-called "Golden Age"
of pirates in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Full Story
|
How Do Juries Make Decisions?
15-Dec-2008
What part of their BRAINS do they use? -
We all want to know (especially since the
O.J. trial!) how juries make
decisions: with their hearts or with their heads. How to find
out? Study their brains!
Full Story
|
Whitley's Journal: The Hour is Late
15-Dec-2008
In his new journal, Whitley talks about our denial of the Visitors
and of the futility he sometimes feels about having dedicated
his life to this subject. He also writes about how our money
problems may be at least partially caused by the fact that
our ancestors were like lemurs! If you love Whitley's journals
and Anne's
diaries,
support this site:
Subscribe
today!
Full Story
|
Does Your Car Have a Personality?
12-Dec-2008
Lots of people think their cars have a specific
personality. A new study
has discovered that many people see human facial features in
the front end of automobiles and ascribe various personality
traits to cars—a modern experience driven by our prehistoric
psyches.
Full Story
|
Tooth Truth
12-Dec-2008
You can't hide the truth from your
dentist!
For instance, they can spot
bulemics
(who gorge and purge) from the way their teeth become
eroded by stomach acid.
Full Story
|
Don't Drive Behind Trucks Filled With Chickens
12-Dec-2008
Researchers have found evidence of a surprising pathway for
potential human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria from
intensively raised poultry—driving behind trucks carrying
chickens!
Full Story
|
Going to Vegas for the holidays?
11-Dec-2008
If you're thinking about doing away with yourself (and we
hope you're NOT!), it turns out there's only one place to go.
We all assume that anyone who commits
suicide
has a
good reason to do so, yet many people who are in the same
dire straits opt to stay alive and face their problems. The
difference may be a new discovery that the brains of people
who commit suicide are chemically different to those who die
from other causes…they may be
gamblers.
Full Story
|
Happiness is like a Virus
11-Dec-2008
…it's catching! -
Can THIS
glass be seen as half full instead of half empty? This
Christmas
season, remember: laughter can be infectious. You don't
need a sophisticated study to tell you that, but
nevertheless, there WAS such a study, which looked at
nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years and
discovered that one person's happiness triggers a chain
reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends'
friends, and his friends' friends' friends. The effect lasts for
up to one year. But SADNESS and
stress do not spread through social networks as
robustly as happiness.
Full Story
|
Why Men Have More Trouble in a Recession
10-Dec-2008
They are genetically programmed to SPEND! -
In a recession, we all have less to spend. But are men
genetically programmed to keep on spending money
anyway?
Full Story
|
Anne's Diary: Busy, Busy, BUSY
10-Dec-2008
In her latest diary, Anne Strieber writes about the often
meaningless hustle and bustle of the holiday season and
compares it to…the way business is done in Hollywood! If you
love Anne's diaries, support this site:
Subscribe
today!
Full Story
|
Something GOOD About the Recession?
09-Dec-2008
Is there anything good that can be said about the current
recession? Well, the last depression was one of the
greatest creative periods of our time, so maybe this one will
be too.
Full Story
|
Salmon Go Home
09-Dec-2008
How salmon find their way back to their birthplace to
reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open
ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But
now marine biologists at think they may have discovered the
secret.
Full Story
|
Do You Dream in Color?
08-Dec-2008
...or in black and white? -
In the Monday, Dec. 1st edition of the New York Times,
Anahad O'Connor addresses the claim that some people only
dream in black and white. Is this true?
Full Story
|
You May Own a Conscious Computer Someday
08-Dec-2008
The Master
of the Key predicted this and now it's come true: computers
of the
future
will mimic brains.
Full Story
|
More Than Meets the Eye?
05-Dec-2008
…controversy about a mysterious new building in Washington, DC -
A month ago, we posted a story about
William
Henry's incredible
revelation that the US Capitol building works as
stargate
(a pathway between heaven and earth), just like an Egyptian
pyramid. He explains all this in his incredible new DVD
Amreican
Rite. Anne Strieber recently
interviewed William about this for
subscribers!
Full Story
|
Pied Piper Needed All Over Again
05-Dec-2008
Legend says that in the 13th century, a pied piper played his
flute to lure the rats out of the town of Hamelin, Germany (he
lured the town’s children away as well). Well, they need him
again: the rats are BACK!
Full Story
|
You'll be a Healthier Adult
05-Dec-2008
…if you were born from a frozen embryo! -
New studies show that babies born from frozen embryos
(used with in vitro fertilization) are less likely to be
underweight and premature. So should ALL of us use frozen
embryos?
Full Story
|
Old Pot Stash Discovered
05-Dec-2008
A stash of marijuana almost 3,000 years old has been found
in an ancient Chinese tomb—and it's still just as potent as
the day it was picked.
Full Story
|
|
