Whitley Strieber talks about his new novel “The Omega Point,”published on June 22nd. To read Whitley’s thoughts on why the Omega Point seems so timely, click here.
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Just be glad you can’t SMELL it! – The world’s largest and stinkiest flower, the Titan Arum, also known as the Corpse Flower, smells like a mixture of excrement and rotting flesh. It also has a distinctive look, with giant red petals bursting out of a tall, phallic-like stem. This native of the rainforests of Sumatra blooms very rarely, but the one housed in the Western Illinois University Botany Greenhouse has begun the blooming process, and you can watch it unfold (but thankfully not smell it) on the web.
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If We SurviveIn Whitley Strieber’s dynamic new Journal he discusses the BP oil spill and what it portends for the way we run our government. Whitley and Starfire Tor discuss this on Dreamland this week and Starfire agrees with Whitley when he says, “The dark clouds are no longer building on the horizon. They’re here.” Let’s hope we survive!
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If there’s one change we all want in the future, it’s no more “Columbine”-type mass murders in schools. We all hate bullies and scientists have discovered that they are more likely to attack fat kids, who already have plenty of problems: About half of mothers of children who are obese at age 5 report some form of intimate partner violence (in other words, their MOMS are bullied too!)
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