Want to have less stress? Have a near-death experience (NDE). A new study shows that people who have had NDEs are better had handling stress. Researcher Willoughby B. Britton says, “We found that people who have these experiences are just the opposite of what people think. They aren’t more likely to run away from stress.”
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Around midnight near Chicago on March 26, 2003, Steven Simon and Lawrence Grossman were woken up by a 2,000 pound meteor crashing nearby. Noe Garza was asleep when a piece of it burst through his ceiling, bounced across the room and broke a mirror. “I thought somebody was breaking in,” he says. “It was a big bang. I can’t really describe it.” Another resident whose home was hit says he thought a plane had crashed.
Robert Roy Britt writes in space.com that Simon and Grossman, both scientists at the University of Chicago, decided to investigate the event. The meteor was seen in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri. Simon and Grossman collected pieces of the rock, as well as eyewitness accounts, in order to determine its size and speed.
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This weekend’s Drudge Report says, “Employees at NASA have been told not to comment publicly on Fox’s new summer fuss-film The Day After Tomorrow” for fear that “moviegoers will be alarmed enough to blame the Bush administration for inattention to climate change. ‘No one from NASA is to do interviews or otherwise comment on anything having to do with’ the film, said an April 1 message to employees.”
Meanwhile, NASA’s own satellite images reveal that a crucial part of the North Atlantic ocean circulation is slowing down, which could change our weather dramatically, just in time for the movie, which will be released worldwide on May 28. NASA’s Sirpa Hakkinen said (before the media blackout), “It is a signal of large climate variability in the high latitudes.”
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Wallace T. Wallington has figured out how ancient civilizations like the Egyptians moved giant blocks of stone before they discovered the wheel. He says, “It’s more technique than it is technology. I think the ancient Egyptians and Britons knew this.”
Kim Crawford writes in the Flint Journal that Wallington has several 10 ton blocks in the yard of his rural home that he’s learned to move with wooden levers. Last October, the Discovery Channel recorded him raising a 16-foot concrete block that weighed 19,200 pounds and setting it into a hole, in the same way ancient builders probably created Stonehenge. He now has a 10 foot high column in his yard. He says, “I call it the forgotten technology.”
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