Last year, reports of strange light orbs appeared inside the Riverwalk Fellowship Church in Texas as people worshiped. They began to take pictures, and then video of these orbs, convinced that they were witnessing a miracle of God. One year later, a Dallas television photographer took shots inside the church and found a large blue orb of light. Several smaller orbs surrounded it.

The photograph was examined by Dr. Randall Scalise of Southern Methodist University, who teaches a class on recognizing pseudoscience. He determined the orbs appeared because of a reflection inside the camera, caused by background lighting and dust particles.

The orb in the video wasn’t as easy to explain. Taken by a teenage boy, this video shows an orb of light traveling from a woman’s feet, through her body and out of her head. The video was sent to paranormal psychologist, Dr. Lloyd Auerbach, who suggested that the orb represented psychokinetic energy, or healing energy. Dr. Scalise remains skeptical.

Source: Topix.net

A long time ago, I watched a documentary about the effects freezing temperatures had on the human body. From what I can remember, the scientists in this film discussed cryogenics and hypothesized whether this would work to freeze terminally ill patients until they could find a cure for whatever disease they had. It was determined that cryogenics wouldn’t work because when the body freezes, it crystalizes our tissues.

So I was amazed when I found this story about a little tree frog, who had the misfortune of freezing solid in an Australian freezer. The story wasn’t clear about where the frog was at the time of the accident - in a zoo or at someone’s home. But when he was removed and defrosted, he began to breathe. Read the full story by clicking on the link below.

Source: Ananova.com

Engineers have explained how the four-ton bluestones of Stonehenge were transported to the Salisbury Plain from the Preseli hills of south Wales. Why they were transported has been the subject of intense research and speculation over thousands of years. Professors Geoff Wainwright and Timothy Darvill have come up with a new and compelling theory: Stonehenge was a hospital.

Stonehenge was distinct among British henges - in its scale and spacious setting, and in the exceptional number of burial mounds round it. As Darvill says, it was “constantly being remodelled and changed over a period of perhaps a thousand years … getting larger, more grand and more complicated”. True its architecture is dominated by astronomical calculations, implying a priesthood and time-related rituals. But this would have meant nothing to ordinary mortals. What drew them to Stonehenge from across Europe must have been specific, a reputation for relief from disease and disability.

What makes this theory so convincing is the deformities in the skeletons in burial mounds that surround Stonehenge. I’ve read many of the theories about Stonehenge over the course of my life, but this one makes the most sense. Click on the Guardian Unlimited article link below to read a more indepth and fascinating account of this latest theory.

Source: Guardian Unlimited

I watched this show when it premiered on Monday night and came away from it puzzled as to how they obtained their supernatural abilities and where the plot was going to go. I’d seen the preview of the cheerleader surviving a nasty fall and got the general gist of what this new show was going to be about. My interest was lukewarm, so I didn’t give it much thought or attention until the premiere, which I watched on a whim. Here’s a short summary from Kendra on WordPress:

Heroes will chronicle the lives of these people and the lives of others like them – whose destiny just might be saving humankind and themselves as they come together to evade the series’ antagonist who wants to capture them so they can be studied and experiemented on in order harness their super-DNA for himself.

The premiere episode involved introducing the main characters and their backstories, which intrigued me enough to want to watch next Monday’s episode. I’d like to see how the writers of Heroes connect all of the subplots they have going on right now.