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Click “Listen Now” on our masthead to listen to Whitley’s 4th meditation for extraterrestrial contact. Does it work? Here’s what one listener writes: “Increased contact? Oh, yes! Thankfully, others in my home are experiencing the bizarre along me, so I know that I’m not a yelping loony. They aren’t actually ‘seeing’ aliens as I am, but they have no desire to; actually, they are quite disturbed by all the phenomena and wish it would just go away.
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Women today are thankful that have birth control so they can avoid having too many children to care for. David W. Tschanz writes that, contrary to popular belief, women in the past knew a lot about contraception. In order to get the right information, you just had to know where to look.

For instance, there’s a 2,500-year-old Greek coin that shows a woman sitting in a chair, holding a plant in one hand and pointing to her genitals with the other. The ancient people who used this coin knew it refers to a plant called silphion by the Greeks and silphium by the Romans, that was an herbal morning-after pill.
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Suicide rates worldwide are at the highest in the summer, and it turns out it’s not just because of the heat. But people who get more sun actually have less cancer, so what’s a person to do?

Elizabeth Svoboda writes in Discover Magazine about Australian neurochemist Gavin Lambert, who says that extended exposure to bright sunlight may cause chemical changes in the brain that trigger depression and suicide in some people.

Lambert discovered that in one part of Australia, from 1990 to 1999, 23% of the suicides took place during the summer (which is our winter season). He found that people committed suicide more often as the daily periods of sunlight got longer, and this pattern was especially true for violent suicides.
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In the coming years, all kinds of new spacecraft will be roaming the skies. Many of these are unfamiliar to us and will be reported as UFOs. Strange sightings will no longer be attributed to ball lightning, they’ll be dismissed as UAVs, which are robot craft designed to look for criminal and terrorist activity. This means reports of “real” UFOs will be ignored more than ever.

Leonard David writes in space.com that Tom Ridge, who runs Homeland Security, wants to use UAVs to monitor U.S. borders “very seriously” and plans to work with the Department of Defense to build robot planes that can do the job.
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