Fifteen-year-old photographer Jonathan Burnett snapped a digital photo of a bright light sailing through the sky, and another amateur photographer caught the same image from a different angle. These photos have scientists around the world mystified about what the mysterious light was, since it turns out it wasn’t a meteor.
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In The Communion Letters, we collected some of the extraordinary letters we received from readers of Communion over 15 years ago. The letters havent stopped we get amazing e-mails every day. Weve decided to begin posting some of the best of them in our Insight section (with the writers permission). Our first one is from Patty from Ohio, who talks about a mysterious round grave found over 100 years ago in her area.
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Phone towers for the new, high-tech cell phones can cause headaches and nausea, according to Dutch researchers, because they operate at a higher frequency than those for traditional cell phones. This new technology allows callers to use their phones to send messages and photo images.
The Dutch study exposed volunteers in laboratories to radiation from either the new or the “traditional” cell phone towers, without telling them which one they were being exposed to. Of the 72 people who took part in the study, half experienced nausea, headaches and tingling sensations from the radiation level of the new cell phone towers. In contrast, the radiation level of traditional cell phone towers produced no bad effects.
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North Korea has been accused of killing the babies of pregnant women who are brought back after escaping to China. These women are kept in a detention camp, where they are given abortions or else their babies are killed at birth, as a way to keep the North Korean race “pure.”
Between 200,000 and 300,000 North Koreans are believed to have crossed into China during the severe famine of the 1990s. If they are discovered by Chinese police, they’re forced to return home.
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