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As one of our new Communion Letters, we present the experiences of Rick, who says: “I was never really into UFOs. I always assumed they were possible but never really went out of my way to learn about them. That attitude continued even after myself and 3 other U.S. Airmen stationed at RAF Alconbury near Huntingdon, England in 1970 saw a glowing, domed saucer-type UFO sitting in the middle of a farm field only a hundred yards or so from the side of the road at about 2 in the morning.”

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Weeds may be unwanted, but they’re more valuable than you think. Anthropologist Richard Steep says, “If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn’t be the forest. There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people’s doors they could use.”

Stepp looked through scientific journals to find drugs that come from plants instead of being created in laboratories. He discovered that although only about 3% of the world’s quarter-million plant species are weeds, they make up more than a third of the 101 plants used to make drugs.
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One sign that the world is warming up is when insects that normally live in the south start arriving in areas with colder climates. This is happening already in the U.K., where the stink bug?familiar in the American South?is now living. “I’m always reluctant to invoke global warming but it’s the only explanation,” says Max Barclay, curator of beetles at the Natural History Museum.

These insects regularly arrive in the U.K. along with loads of fruits and vegetables, but this is the first time they’ve decided to stay and breed, because it’s always been too cold for them before. Besides the U.S., it was once found only in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Australia and Africa.
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Cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells look like they could bring us clear skies tomorrow, because we’d no longer have to worry about either CO2 emissions or an oil shortage. Major oil producers don’t want to be left out, so they’ve developed a system that converts gasoline to hydrogen in order power a fuel-celled car. But if we start with oil, how will that change things?
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