July 21st, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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From Reporter News, we read about how to reduce stress. Here are some of the suggestions:
Pop in a humor CD. Keep one in the car and steer clear of traffic frustration.
Eat well. Our bodies — and our brains — need good fuel to function well.
Take care of your spirit. Taking care of your spirit means connecting to whatever you consider meaningful and holy, whether that’s God, nature, art or something deep within yourself.
Talk with others who share similar spiritual beliefs and learn from each other.
Inspiring tip: People who have strong spiritual lives may be healthier and live longer. Spirituality seems to cut the stress that can contribute to disease.
In a previous “Mental Health Column,” was mentioned:
The first five “tools” are: connect with others, stay positive, get physically active, help others, and get enough rest.
June 28th, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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From the blog Live Pterosaurs in America, the post “Flying Creature in Los Angeles” says:
Flying only about 300 feet above the heads of two astonished humans . . . the creature appeared to have a wingspan of 10-20 feet. Also astonishing was the faint glow that led one of the eyewitnesses to connect the creature with the ropen of Papua New Guinea.
The sighting was in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, in 2009. The two eyewitnesses seemed to be credible.
June 16th, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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Under the right atmospheric conditions, an airplane flying through clouds can punch a whole in them, sometimes causing local snowfall. According to Wired Science, “Odd clouds can sometimes elude explanation for decades, and these mysterious gaps in the sky, aptly called hole-punch clouds or channel clouds, have been puzzling sky gazers and scientists alike since the 1940s. A 1968 article in the magazine Weatherwise called them “A Meteorological Whodunit?”
Wired Science continued: “Previous research also suggests that propeller planes could make snow fall when they flew through supercooled clouds, where water droplets remain liquid despite subfreezing temperatures. But until recently, a direct connection between airplanes, hole-punch clouds and snowfall was missing. Now, a team of atmospheric scientists report observing all three in the June Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.”
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Pterosaur Sighting in South Carolina
May 17th, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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How would you interpret a report of a sighting of a giant living pterosaur flying over a road near the campus of the University of California at Irvine? In the summer of 2007, that’s what the eyewitness described, for it had no feathers, a long tail, and a length of about thirty feet. Somebody might dismiss the report as a misidentified bat, except for the giant size and the long tail.
According to another source, regarding live pterosaurs:
Several Americans searched for the elusive creature; important expeditions were in 2002, 2004 (two), and 2006. But the Sci-Fi Destination Truth expedition of 2007 introduced the word ‘ropen’ to many thousands of American T.V. viewers.
Live pterosaurs! But it gets even stranger. Reports starting coming in from North America, and some of the Americans who explored Papua New Guinea, in 2004, searching for ropens, began searching for them in the United States. In at least two of the West Coast states, one of the locations became extremely secret. Nevertheless, according to one press release, one of the living-pterosaur cryptozoologists has estimated that at least 1400 Americans have seen a living pterosaur between early-1980 and the end of 2008. Most of those who have given their reports remain anonymous.
April 15th, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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What attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators, every October, to Nong Kai Province? The Naga Fireballs of Southeast Asia have attracted crowds for many years, and these strange glowing orbs have been seen emerging from the Mekong River for centuries.
What causes these lights? Is it the gravitational pull of the moon on methane gas? Are the legends true about the eggs of the giant snake? Could Laotin monks be playing hoaxes? Scientific explanations appear to fall flat, for at least one scientist strongly opposes any natural cause such as methane; it seems to unbelievable to imagine gas bubbles that start burning in the water and then continue to burn in the form of a balls as they emerge and float up above the river. Yet any attempt at a human explanation evaporates like the lights themselves: Lights slowing emerging from the water–that seems impossible for monks to create every year for centuries.
Perhaps the ancient legends may have some truth to them, for a living organism, not yet classified in Western science (albeit bioluminescent rather than mystical) appears to be the best explanation for the Naga Fireballs of the Mekong River. We know that some insects glow and some insects emerge from rivers to fly away. This may be a large bioluminescent insect.
There appears to be no direct relationship to the nocturnal glowing kor of Papua New Guinea.
February 10th, 2010 by Nathaniel Coleman
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“A cryptozoologist estimates that at least 1400 credible eyewitnesses have seen, in the United States, over the past 29 years, large flying creatures unlike any known bird or bat: apparent pterosaurs.”
The estimate is crude, based largely on how reluctant Americans are to admit that they have seen something like a living pterosaur. But the nonfiction-book author has interviewed Americans for years, and has analyzed the resulting data. Several cryptozoology books have been written about strange flying creatures, including apparent pterosaurs. Eyewitnesses may be plentiful, but this is still cryptozoology, for no body (live or recently deceased) has yet been discovered.
A few critics using online forums have ridiculed those who believe in the possibility of a living pterosuar, but they have also often declared that there would be nothing unscientific about discovering that kind of creature. So why ridicule those who hope that the poor animals are alive?
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Some key words worth trying: pterosaur, pterodactyl, ropen
Also: Cryptozoology Book (nonfiction: Live Pterosaurs in America)
October 30th, 2009 by Nathaniel Coleman
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Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, now has a parking that is shaded with an added benefit: The “Solar Grove” shading creates electricity, namely 130 kilowatts. Built by Envision Solar, it does more than create clean electricity: The shade makes cooler cars, so less auto air conditioning is needed.
October 12th, 2009 by Nathaniel Coleman
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William read whatever he could find. As a fourteen-year-old in a poor African village, he appeared least likely to become a miracle worker, regardless of his drive to learn. Tied to the chores of the family farm–school was too expensive–his appetite for education appeared to be mocked by literal and figurative starvation. What could anyone expect of him?
But the boy found Using Energy, a book about generating electricity from windmills. He became filled with a passion to supply electric light and water pumping to his village. Using scraps of wood and tree branches, he built a tower; using junk, he built a windmill. To the amazement of villagers, it worked.
And William has recently become the co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a bestselling book on Amazon.com. His accomplishment now amazes the world.
