It’s the solar WIND – You’ve heard the complaint that “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” Well, the same thing can be said about the sun: New research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of the sun’s impact on global warming over its 11-year solar cycle. Earth was bombarded last year with high levels of solar energy at a time when the Sun was in an unusually quiet phase and sunspots had virtually disappeared. But there was LOTS of solar wind.

Researcher Sarah Gibson says, “The sun continues to surprise us. The solar wind can hit Earth like a fire hose even when there are virtually no sunspots.”
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What do crop formations mean? Do they have something to do with 2012, or human transformation, or are they a secret message of some kind?

Explore the answers to these questions with famed researchers Steve and Karen Alexander.

We are coming to the end of the 2009 crop circle season, which has been the most prolific and complex ever. Steve and Karen Alexander are among the leading researches in the field, and in this interview Karen tells us just why this season has been so important, and what its implications are for the future. More and more, formations are being seen by researchers as pointing toward 2012, and Karen thinks she knows the reason why.
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The hero of Dan Brown’s new book discovers some familiar concepts – In our new Insight, popular Revelations show host William Henry asks: “Am I the source for Dan Brown’s new book? ‘The Lost Symbol’ (which Brown didn’t finish till February, 2009), which is about the Dome of the US Capitol and The Apotheosis of the George Washington painting there?
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