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We recently returned from a conference in Phoenix. Like most UFO conferences, it was a combination of the grand and the goofy. There were people who gave wise talks about serious, well-thought-out theories, while other people, wearing white doctors’ coats, took people who thought they might be contactees into a booth where they shone a black light over their skin in order to locate implants.

Something else that always happens at these conferences happened to me again: I heard some extraordinary stories. People came up to me and said, "I have something to tell you," and some of them REALLY DID.
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Wind turbines seem to be the ideal solution to our energy problems, but they have a problem of their own: Shortages of small number of rare minerals could slow the future growth of this (and other) renewable energy industries, such as solar panels, electric car batteries and energy-efficient light bulbs.
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Scientists who are studying the Fukushima earthquake have uncovered data that predicts a "big one" in the Pacific Northwest, along the coasts of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

The Fukushima quake was precipitated by what is called the "Tohoku area" of underwater plates. On the Weatherbug site, Sandi Doughton quotes earthquake expert John Anderson as saying, "The Cascadia subduction zone can be seen as a mirror image of the Tohoku area." When Anderson compiled ground-motion data from the Japan quake and overlaid it on a map of the Pacific Northwest, which has a similar fault lying offshore, the two faults dovetailed almost exactly.
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