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What does a highly qualified academic researcher think of the work of Whitley Strieber? Whitley Strieber and Jeff Kripal talk about Whitley’s upcoming Communion sequel, and Jeff’s deep understanding of what the whole modern experience of the unknown means.

This is one of the most intimate and searching conversations we’ve ever heard from the very private Whitley Strieber. Jeff Kripal opens him up and offers extraordinary insights of value to every close encounter witness and everybody who is interested in this strange unknown.

Whitley tells a stunning, overwhelmingly powerful story of what it was like to hold a visitor in his arms, something he has never discussed before. And yet, what was really happening?
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You’ve never heard of Jeff Kripal, but he’s a prominent professor of religion and philosophy at Rice University, and he’s written the best analysis of the work of Whitley Strieber that has ever been published. He understands the close encounter experience deeply, but with a professional academic’s rigorous mind.

So, what does he think of the edge of reality? Is it just folklore, or are we reacting to something real? Listen as he discusses writers like Charles Fort, the great chronicler of strange events, in ways that you have never heard before.
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Kids who are deficient in vitamin D gained weight more rapidly than kids who got enough vitamin D, and since you get the D vitamin mainly from being out in the sun, this is probably because they’re spending too much time inside in front of the TV and not getting enough exercise. And this doesn’t just happen in the US: Epidemiologist Eduardo Villamor studied a group of Columbian kids for almost 3 years, measuring their vitamin D levels regularly.read more

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Despite the recent freezing winter weather, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. The temperature of the earth was over one degrees higher than the 20th-century average the same as it was in 2005. It was the 34th consecutive year of above average temperatures. The last year that the temperature was BELOW average was 35 years ago, in 1976. Nine of the Earth’s 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001, and all 12 of the warmest years have occurred since 1997.
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