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In her new diary, Anne writes: “Glennys MacKay, an incredible medium from Australia, contacted us suddenly by email a few weeks ago, saying she had been ‘called’ to come to the United States.” What follows is an incredible adventure. If you want to listen to Anne Strieber’s interview with Gary Schwartz about God as a mathematical formula, you need to subscribe today.

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A stunning new scientific report predicts that the next sunspot cycle will be massively more powerful than the one just past, which was among the most powerful on record. This is going to cause intense climate disruptions on earth, including surface heating from coronal mass ejections, which is believed to have caused numerous forest fires during the last solar max.

The next solar max is expected to reach its peak in 2012. Because global warming is causing widespread drought, such effects could be massive. In addition, challenges to earth’s magnetic field, which is in flux at this time, could mean that there will be periods when the surface is exposed to high-intensity particles from the sun.
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Just a few years ago, it was theorized that Antarcticcontinental ice might begin to melt significantly by the endof this century. It has just been discovered that massive,unexpected melt is taking place right now. Satellitemeasurements show that the Antarctic is losing over 70 cubicmiles of ice per year, enough to cause the salinity of thesouthern ocean to drop dramatically, resulting in even morewarming and melt. The melting of the Antarctic would raiseworld sea levels by a hundred and twenty feet. Even themelting of 25% of the land-based ice would cause a six footsea level increase, devastating low lying areas worldwide,and rendering cities as diverse as New York, Amsterdam,Rotterdam, London and many others all but unlivable.
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We recently put up a series of stories on the science behind the remake of the film King Kong. It turns out that there is a limit to how large?and thus how dangerous?mammals can become.

Seth Shostak writes in space.com that huge, unknown creatures are still being discovered here on Earth. As recently as 2004, Japanese researchers photographed a giant squid in the Pacific. Up until that time, the huge squid had been assumed to be a legend similar to that of the Loch Ness monster. A year earlier, in 2003, an even bigger squid was found off the coast of Antarctica.
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