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Crop circles have shown up in Connecticut and Wisconsin.Local resident Adam Prince was driving past FrancisSwoboda’s field in the town of Tilden, Wisconsin when “Ijust looked at it I could see something up in the field.” Itturned out to be a crop circle.

Candice Novitzke writes in the Chippewa (Wisconsin) FallsHerald that the formation consists of three circles linkedtogether by an 5-foot wide path. (To see a photo of the cropcircle,clickhere. The middle circle is 65 feet in diameter, while thetwo smaller ones are each about 54 feet in diameter. Nofootprints can be seen nearby.
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Soldiers have it even tougher than we think?they may have tocook dinner in their own urine. The same researchers whothought this up also created an “indestructible sandwich”for troops that stays fresh for three years.

Duncan Graham-Rowe writes in New Scientist that U.S. foodscientists working for the military have developed driedfood rations that troops can hydrate by peeing on it. Itcomes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9% ofbacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used torehydrate it. This means they can also use water that’s notfit to drink.
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Sloanwrites in one of our newCommunionLetters: “In March of 1995 while asleep I was taken to aspaceship, or what I believe was a spaceship. I was sittingin a type of birthing chair facing a curved, very white wallwith a bench along its surface. I was not able to move andcould not even adjust my peripheral vision, but I felt thatthere were two large entities on either side of me, and thatthere was a large window behind me and I was somewhere inspace. To my amazement, I wasn’t frightened.”

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People who become blind early in life often develop greatmusical ability because they depend more on sound. RayCharles and Stevie Wonder are examples of this.

Researcher Pascal Belin asked 26 blind and sighted adults,ages 21 to 46, to judge whether two sounds were rising orfalling in pitch. Some of the blind people had lost theirsight before the age of two, others between the ages of fiveand 45. They found that the blind people who lost theirsight at an early age performed better than those who couldsee, and the earlier they went blind, the better they did onthe test. Berline says, “Early-blind subjects were betterthan both late-blind and sighted subjects at determining thedirection of pitch change.”
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