The Communion Letters didn’t end with the book, because people keep remembering their experiences. Eric writes: “My story is so much like the movie Communion, I was literally blown away when I watched it a few months ago. It has made me believe that we are being abducted and there is no chance of all of this being a dream.”
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Idiot-savants are people who were born with damaged brains and they are usually retarded, except in one spectacular area. For instance, when given a date, many of them can instantly tell you what day of the week it was?something most of us can’t begin to do. Now an Australian researcher wants to tap into the genius part of the ordinary brain and turn the rest of us into savants. Dr. Allan Snyder says, “We have these severely brain-impaired people who are performing what seems ostensibly to be a miracle. It must be something that’s in us all, and we can’t access. They can.”
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A scientist says he’s found Atlantis. While this has been claimed many times before, Dr. Rainer Kuehne used satellite photos to spot a part of southern Spain with features that match the descriptions of Greek scholar Plato. This would mean Atlantis wasn’t an island at all, but was an area of the Spanish coast that was destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC.
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NOAA scientists are delighted that their institution, in the person of scientist Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid), is the star of the major motion picture The Day After Tomorrow. But they administration doesn’t like the film’s portrayal of Vice-President Dick Cheney, who denies that global warming is on the way. NOAA planned to put up a website about abrupt climate change to coincide with the release of the film, but the project was nixed by the government.
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