There is a coupon in the Unknowncountry.com subscriber section offering $10.00 off the physical edition of Whitley Strieber’s beautiful Tarot book, the Path. This takes the price down to just 95 cents.

The Path is unique in the world. There is no other Tarot book like it, and no other way of using the Tarot that brings such insight into life. The Path is the only place where the hidden wisdom of the Tarot is revealed as it was intended to be understood when the cards were first created.

Readers love the Path:
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Which is better: The large agribusinesses that seem to be taking over the world (and killing off the bees) or small, (often organic) local farmers? AND sociologists say that small businesses, unlike chain retail "big box" stores and large manufacturing plants, are better for our communities, because they have more at stake when it comes to the well-being of employees, customers and other local citizens.

In fact, the greater the number of small businesses, the HEALTHIER the population of a region is (probably because they can WALK to them).
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Scientists are working hard to understand gravity–which is the key to future space travel. When it comes to this subject, they think that Albert Einstein was absolutely right–and completely wrong.

In the Guardian, Robin McKie quotes psysicist Harald Luck as saying, "In his general theory of relativity, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, which he said would be set off by highly energetic events objects like supernovae or neutron star collisions. However, he also predicted we would never be able to observe these waves because they would be too weak to be detected by the time they reached Earth. We intend to prove him right in the first instance and wrong in the second."
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This interesting object was videoed over Reagan Airport in Washington, DC on the 16th. When it’s zoomed in, it’s clearly not a star or a plane. It’s a good video, despite the idiotic commentary.
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