"A mother was writing a letter to her daughter when her right hand began burning intensely and she dropped the pen. Less than an hour later she got a phone call telling her that her daughter’s right hand was severely burned by acid in a laboratory accident.
A family living on a farm in upstate New York began their day’s work, but all returned to the house later in the morning after experiencing a strange feeling. All eight family members felt an intense foreboding, each without being aware the others felt the same. That day, in Michigan, a son in the family died in an accident.
A woman felt a pain in her chest and said her sister had been hurt. The woman later found out that her sister was in a fatal car accident at the same time; her chest had been crushed by the steering wheel.
These stories go well beyond empathy. They are about feeling the pain of a loved one at a distance, without the conscious knowledge that that person is suffering. “Even when it happens between a mother and child, it likely goes beyond the stock phrase ‘a mother’s intuition,’” said Michael Jawer, a researcher interested in the mind-body connection who co-authored the book “The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense” with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD.
The first two stories were recounted in Dr. Larry Dossey’s books “Healing Beyond the Body” and “Reinventing Medicine” respectively. The third was told by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and quoted by Jawer.
Dr. Dossey calls these experiences telesomatic events. The word telesomatic comes from Greek words for “the distant body.” He wrote in “Healing the Mind” that such events are usually positive. A woman who feels a suffocating sensation, for example, and senses that her child is drowning may run out to the swimming pool in time to save the child. Sometimes, however, they can be damaging. For example, a soldier had his legs blown off and a loved one’s legs became paralyzed for no apparent reason..."===http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/810228-f...onnection/
The Philae comet lander, which unfortunately found itself in shadow that rendered its solar panels inoperative several months ago, and put itself into hibernation mode when its batteries became depleted, has come alive again and has communicated with Earth through its Rosetta mother-ship.
Mission Control in Darmstadt Germany seems to think that it's now powered up anough to do much of the science it was originally intended to do. I'm guessing that the Sun is now at a different angle, relative to Philae.
Apparently it tried to phone home earlier but couldn't get through, and has quite a bit of data in its on-board memory that it wants to send.
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2015/06/ro...ibernation
http://www.universetoday.com/120797/have...ae-lander/
EXCERPT: It’s only a bright dot in a landscape of crenulated rocks, but the Rosetta team thinks it might be Philae, the little comet lander lost since November.
The Rosetta and Philae teams have worked tirelessly to search for the lander, piecing together clues of its location after a series of unfortunate events during its planned landing on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November 12.
Philae first touched down at the Agilkia landing site that day, but the harpoons that were intended to anchor it to the surface failed to work, and the ice screws alone weren’t enough to do the job. The lander bounced after touchdown and sailed above the comet’s nucleus for two hours before finally settling down at a site called Abydos a kilometer from its intended landing site.
No one yet knows exactly where Philae is, but an all-out search has finally turned up a possible candidate.
[...] Meanwhile, mission teams remain hopeful that with increasing sunlight at the comet this summer, Philae’s solar panels will recharge its batteries and the three-legged lander will wake up and resume science studies....
http://dinologue.com/2015/05/solving-the...evolution/
EXCERPT: Plant evolution is important to consider in the evolution of life on Earth and in the sexier study of vertebrate palaeontology, as of course, animal life is tied to plant life. That is especially true in the case of plants that create habitats, as well as food, for many animals. Such is the case with seagrass beds.
Seagrass also happens to be a marine organism that provided an evolutionary conundrum to me this past week. In watching the recent episode, Sand, of Bahama Blue, it referenced seagrass as having evolved 17 million years ago …
This presented a conundrum in my mind, as I knew that fossilized seagrass had been found in Wadi El-Hitan, a 40-million year old ocean in Egypt, and that that seagrass had been one of the main food sources for the ancient dugongs – sea cows that lived there in the late Eocene. The Eocene dates back to between 56 to 33.9 million years ago, so how could a plant that evolved 17 million years ago in the Miocene be there?
Well, as the case may be, marine seagrasses actually evolved 3 or 4 separate times.....
http://www.futurity.org/beavers-mating-941392/
EXCERPT: Beavers were once a vital part of America’s economy. Their pelts were a common currency in the New World, and the hunt for “brown gold” nearly wiped them out.
These days, beavers are making a comeback—in numbers more than reputation. In fact, they are often viewed as a nuisance, causing millions of dollars in damage each year by chewing fences, trees, and decks. They build dams, which leads to flooding of homes, crops, and railroads.
The cause of this population boom? A declining interest in kill trapping, combined with laws promoting more humane trapping methods, are two likely contributing factors. In the five years following the passage of a 1996 ballot referendum restricting trapping in Massachusetts, the number of beavers in there shot up, from 24,000 to 70,000.
[...] Although beavers are known to be among only three percent of mammals that are “socially monogamous,” raising their young exclusively with one partner, researchers do not know much about their pairing behavior. Do the parents also mate with other beavers and raise a mixed brood, or are they sexually exclusive? [Peter] Busher wants to find out.
Busher believes genetically monogamous beaver populations—those that tend to mate with one partner—increase more slowly and may stay in an area longer. If one of these populations were removed because of nuisance activity, says Busher, the area would likely be free of beavers for a while. But if the population were more promiscuous, new beavers could move into the area at any time; communities would need to develop a long-term animal removal plan....
This is one of those ufo sightings that defies even the conventional ones usually seen. I love these. They suggest totally new or unanticipated phenomena. The universe is a strange place.
25 Witnesses Observed a Black Oval Shaped Object
Vancouver /Burnaby, BC
Summer 2002/2003 ? Time: 3:00 pm
by By Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research, www.hbccufo.org
Full Description of event/sighting:
"We were driving west in the afternoon into Vancouver on the #1 freeway. And in a clear sky overhead and to the south was a black object in the oval shape of a rugby ball! It was not moving and stayed exactly where it was as we approached. It seemed to be about 2000 feet above the ground near our Central Park and about the size of a 747.
Many people pulled off the highway to look at it, including 2 policemen. It did not move at all and was not a balloon or kite. In retrospect, the oval shape could have been a circle shape as viewed from an angle. It seemed like the opening of a round pipe.
We rushed home expecting to hear breaking news but nothing was said about it. I can see the area from my apartment and looked with binoculars after getting home but saw nothing and wondered if my angle of view now was parallel with the shape so it would be a straight line if in fact it was a flat opening of some kind like a disk? I would love to hear what it could have been.
Additional Information:
Brian, thanks for your reply. Please be clear about the included picture; that I used Photoshop to duplicate as close as I could to show what I saw. My wife saw it as well, and it seemed like it was in the area west of Central Park, south of Kingsway. And could have been about 1000 to 2000 feet up.
Our viewing angle was from the #1 freeway. We noticed it somewhere east of Willingdon Ave. interchange. It never appeared to be hovering, or moving at all or affected by wind or anything. It was definitely NOT a balloon or kite. Just solidly stationary in the sky. As if it was a flat plane of black disk, not even an edge to it. Nor did there appear to be any structure or shape to it other than the solid black disk. No light reflected off anything.
As we got just past the Willingdon exit, the traffic slowed down and we pulled to the side of the road as others did. There were even two RCMP officers stopped on a side road, (on what I think might be called Clydesdale St. which leads onto Grandview Hwy at Boundary Rd) they were out of their police car looking up at it too. Other traffic had slowed. I passed by and went home, listening to the radio for reports, but there were none. I even expected the 6 PM news to have video. When I got home, I live in a high rise in Vancouver and could see in that direction east, Central Park is directly in my eastern view, I got out my binoculars but could see nothing. I accounted that to the fact that I thought it was a flat object, and from my new view, it would only be a line in the sky if it was still there at all.. The thought did come to mind that it could have been a circular shape, if viewed directly from below, however I never went closer to find that out.
When I told some others about it, someone suggested it could have been a "black hole". I DO know what a real black hole is, but that was an apt description of what it appeared like. As if a pipe was there for some reason, and we could only see the hole in the pipe, but not the pipe itself.
I wonder if you'd get any interest from the RCMP office near the Gaglardi Way? Caribou Rd exit? I just discovered your website recently so can't exactly recall the month I saw it, and it could have even been 2002. Of course most people just smirk when you tell them and ask if I'm a 'trekkie' too, but it was a phenomenal and unforgettable sight. It would be most interesting to find others who saw it too."====http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case1137.htm
