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In our new poll, we ask if you would participate in a group meditation effort intended to communicate with the visitors. Whitley wants to organize such group, which he’ll talk about with Lisette Larkins on next week’s Dreamland, and he wants to know how many of you are interested.

Keep reading for the results from last weeks poll. Last week we asked you if you believe there was a civilization lost in prehistory. Most of you (54%) think there was, and think it was more advanced than we are. We’ve had many learned guests on Dreamland who have said the same thing.
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Kite flyers in Pakistan face murder charges and the death penalty if the sharpened strings of their kites kill anyone else. Several people have had their throats cut by strings that are either metallic or coated with glass shards, and police are treating these deaths as murders.

Kite flyers take part in “dog fights,” where the objective is to cut their opponent’s kite string, but they sometimes cut their opponents instead. Some of the victims have been children. Police are raiding shops selling that sell banned strings and arresting the owners.
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Americans have been gradually getting fatter every year since World War II, and more and more of us have moved to the suburbs during that time, as well. Researchers now think it may be the suburbs that make us fat.

Researcher Arlin Wasserman noticed that when he moved from his native Philadelphia, where he biked everywhere, he gained weight every time. “The move to Ann Arbor, where I logged 15,000 miles a year driving, gained me 15 pounds, even though I was still biking to work,” he says. “But the move to Traverse City gained me another 20.”
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The controversy over the image of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin never seems to end?is it a miracle or a hoax? Microbiologist Stephen Mattingly says it’s neither?he thinks it was created by bacteria from a dying man’s body, despite the fact that there’s no other known shroud from ancient times with similar markings on it.
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