The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that June of 2016 was the hottest month of June on record for the contiguous United States, since temperature records began in 1880. The average temperature seen in the Lower 48 over the month was 71.6ºF (22.1ºC), a full 3.3ºF (1.83ºC) above the 20th century average, and breaking the previous record of 71.6ºF (22.0ºC), set in 1933.

Alaska followed the continuing trend of northern regions seeing the largest gains, seeing an average temperature of a whopping 9ºF (5.0ºC) above average, handily beating the 1981 record of 6.5ºF (3.6ºC) over average.
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In this edition of Awakening, Whitley Strieber calls on a powerful and profoundly informative encounter experience he had week before last in Texas to offer a way of creating the legendary "light body" that is at the center of all transformative experience. This is the first time that this has been explained without any symbolism attached to it. In the past, this information has always been transmitted through the filter of religious doctrine and belief.
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Researchers at Harvard University have built a light-sensitive, self-propelled artificial machine-organism, in the form of a tiny robot stingray. The project was done in an effort to test the feasibility of making hybrid replacement organs for human patients, such as bioartificial hearts, that could use natural muscle motions to function, as opposed to the electrical operation that today’s prosthetics require.
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This week we examine a lifelong experiencer’s encounters with the highly strange, honing in on the question of wakeup points. Was there a dangling carrot early on? Was there a specific incident where he became self-conscious that there was a pattern of oddness in his life? And what came after? This is part one of two leading into an experience roundtable about childhood events. Only Unknowncountry.com subscribers get to hear it all, so click that subscribe tab and partake in the quality conversation you’ve been scouring the net for!
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