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New Whitley’s journal! – One of the most common things that close encounter witnesses see is a blue light. In Whitley’s new journal, he writes about a mysterious blue light that woke him up in the middle of the night, crashed his computer, and caused his implant to move! If you love Whitley’s journals and Anne’s diaries (as well as our incredible radio shows), support this site: Subscribe today!

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There is a gigantic black hole at the center of our galaxy. Will it someday suck us into it?

Black holes have so much gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape them. This one is 4 million times bigger than the sun. Astronomer Robert Massey says that galaxies like ours actually like to form around black holes. In BBC News, Pallab Ghosh quotes Massey as saying, “Although we think of black holes as somehow threatening, in the sense that if you get too close to one you are in trouble, they may have had a role in helping galaxies to form?not just our own, but all galaxies.”

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Our bodies don’t recognize them as food – While we’re making our New Year’s resolutions, maybe one of the things we should change in ’09 is our soda habit. Some researchers think that they’re the main cause of obesity in the US and there’s a reason for this that goes beyond the sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) that’s in them!

In the December 17th edition of the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof quotes nutritionist Barry Popkin as saying, “Soft drinks are linked to diabetes and obesity in the way that tobacco is to lung cancer.” A new study shows that over the past two decades, the number of adults consuming sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, fruit drinks and punches has increased dramatically.
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Wind power is nothing new?archeologists in Iran have discovered that people living there over 5,000 years ago used it to run their kilns.

PressTV.com quotes archeologist Omran Garajian as saying, “Being located near Lut Desert, where wind blows constantly and in fixed directions, had caused the prehistoric inhabitants of the area to use wind as a reliable source of energy. Exerts have identified a kiln, which has been constructed in the same direction as the local winds blow.” (Wind power helped increase the temperature in the kilns used for melting metals). “They have also found a fireplace, which seems to have worked with wind power. The structures date back to about 3500 to 3300 BCE.”

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