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As part of our new Communion Letters series, Deb writes: At approximately age four?we lived in Phoenix, Arizona (NOTE: Home of the Phoenix Lights, which Whitley will examine on this week’s Dreamland) [and saw] several little gray creatures that looked to me like little monkeys [who] told me they would be visiting me many times?I still get messages, and the group who deliver them call themselves The Plurality.

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One of the main problems in the world is that different groups of humans have trouble communicating with one another. Now researchers say we’d be better off if we behaved more like our close relatives, the chimpanzees. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London are looking for volunteers who are willing to test out this theory by acting like chimps in their work and home lives. They will be told to wave their arms, brandish objects to make themselves appear large and to assert authority over others, and bond with their groups by grooming each other.
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Computer-style voting machines make a lot of people nervous, since we know how easy it is to hack into computers. If this was done, votes could be changed and the next Presidential election could be rigged in an undetectable way.
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The Greenland ice sheet will eventually melt away, according to a new computer study. When this happens, sea levels will rise by 23 feet, flooding most of the world’s coastal regions. Most major cities are situated on coasts, because they grew up as ports and trading centers. Climatologist Jonathan Gregory says this will “probably be irreversible this side of a new ice age.” The good news: the total meltdown won’t take place for at least 1,000 years.
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