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Whitley’s exciting new novel “Lilith’s Dream” is now in bookstores everywhere! Publisher’s Weekly says, “Strieber remains a superb prose stylist, with a coherent and persuasive vision of vampirism…” This is the book that Whitley talked about on Coast to Coast on October 10, that contains one of the great hidden meanings of the close encounter experience. Explore it’s beautiful website, Lilithsdream.com where you can see some of the characters as brilliantly imagined by Dana Augustine, and listen to Whitley reading an excerpt. And check out Whitley’s tour schedule!
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People who scoff at ecologists as “tree huggers” don’t realize that most of our modern live-saving medicines come from indigenous people living in the rainforests of the world?which are rapidly being destroyed. Scientists in Venezuela have started a major project collecting information on the traditional medicines of the Amazon rainforest, before they disappear. They want to create a computer database of the jungle plants that have been used by the people their to cure illness for centuries. They also want to try to save these indigenous cultures so that their wisdom isn?t lost forever.
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There are sound waves so low in frequency that we humans can’t hear them, but they may be the secret behind both animal communication and haunted houses. Human ears detect sounds in the frequency range of 20 to 20,000 Hertz (cycles per second). Anything below 20 Hz are called infrasonic waves, which can’t be heard by us, but we can experience them as vibrations. It’s been discovered that infrasonic waves are present in some of the haunted houses in the U.K. and that they affect human emotions.
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Children with serious attention problems have smaller brains, but scientists say medication is not to blame. A 10-year U.S. study shows that the brains of children and teenagers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are 3% to 4% smaller than those of other children. Are their smaller brains the cause of ADHD?or the result of Ritalin and other medications? Scientists think medicines aren’t the reason, because ADHD children who took no drugs had the smallest brains of all.
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