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A well-written scientific report on the solar minimum without sensationalistic or armageddon overtones appeared June 30, 2011, on physicsworld.com, a website of the Institute of Physics. The report, with graphs and photographs, discusses projected high and lows for solar minimums and maximums in upcoming years and what they could mean for the planet.

Read the full article “What’s Going On with the Sun?”at http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/46387

Link submitted by Frieda Nelson.

Staring blankly: the solar disk with no sunspot activity (NASA)

An analysis published online in Discovery News on June 14, 2011, by self-professed space geek and astrophysicist Ian O’Neill contains a legitimate observation that may indicate our solar reflections are causing a change in predicting solar activity. The article also suggests the possibility that the sun is falling into a quiet period that may repeat the “little ice age” of 1650-1715.

Read the entire article online at http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-about-to-fizz-out-110614.html .

The link to this article was submitted to us by Frieda Nelson.

A Gallup poll released in early June 2011 reveals that the people of the United States remain extremely religious, unlike Canadians and Europeans. Read the article on the results of the poll online at Salon.com.

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The NASA video of the June 7, 2011, solar flare appeared online on the NASA government mission pages under sun/earth news. The 60-second video is an amazing view of the solar flare.

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Award-Winning Documentary "Eat the Sun" DVD Release: May 11, 2011

Award-winning and controversial documentary film Eat The Sun debuts Tuesday, May 11, 2011, on DVD with a Documentary Channel Broadcast Premiere to follow on Summer Solstice (June 21) at 8 pm. The film will also release on iTunes, on VOD and in specialty retailers later this summer.

The film features major footage on the International Community of Christ, including clips of Sunrise Divine Service and interviews with Church members and leaders. DVD bonus features include an extensive interview with Bishop Gene Savoy Sr., one of the last filmed interviews he gave.

Street Date: May 11, 2011
UPC: 812616022327
SRP: $24.99
Website: www.eatthesunmovie.com
Directed and Produced by Peter Sorcher
Co-Produced by Diana Iles Parker

The film Eat the Sun is featured in an article on Cosolargy.net. The article contains links to the film trailer and to a film excerpt on Gene Savoy. To read more about the film on Cosolargy.net, click HERE.

To read more about the film on Shootonline, click HERE.

The Dirac equation: how electrons behave in the everyday world in relation to electromagnetism and gravity

In this guest blog published in Scientific American on May 23, 2011, physicist Sean Carroll shares his thoughts about the soul and modern physics. Here are some of his questions and conclusions:

“Does the soul respect gauge invariance and Lorentz invariance? Does the soul have a Hamiltonian? Do the interactions preserve unitarity and conservation of information?

“Nobody ever asks these questions out loud, possibly because of how silly they sound. Once you start asking them, the choice you are faced with becomes clear: either overthrow everything we think we have learned about modern physics, or distrust the stew of religious accounts/unreliable testimony/wishful thinking that makes people believe in the possibility of life after death. It’s not a difficult decision, as scientific theory-choice goes. . . .

“There’s no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. Once we get over any reluctance to face reality on this issue, we can get down to the much more interesting questions of how human beings and consciousness really work.”

We invite you to read the article “Physics and the Immortality of the Soul” online and share your comments with us. You may even want to share them with the readers of Scientific American in their comments section.

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Christianity could become one of the macro forces shaping Chinese culture, say experts like Dr. David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing:

If the Chinese become Christianized … which doesn’t mean you have a majority of people who are Christians, but it means about 25 to 30 percent of people in positions of influence, in politics, in culture, in the media. If you have that component of a major power that accepts Christianity enthusiastically as a guide to life, that is going to change the world view of the leaders of China.

Read the entire article online at Fox News.

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Ryan Anderson (left) and Matthew Madonna (right) doing their thing. PHOTO RYANIE VRATARI

“Ryan Anderson sits at a desk in his home studio, tinkering away on his laptop and occasionally twisting a knob on the nearby mixer. He’s playing a remix of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” a track his partner in musical endeavors, Matt Madonna, created about seven months earlier when the two best friends first formed their DJ collaboration Love and Light. . . .”

Read the entire article online in the October 7, 2010 Reno News & Review: http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1854563

For more information on the musical duo, visit soundcloud.com/love-and-light.

Ryan Anderson (left) and Matthew Madonna (right) at work in Ohio

“Space physicists have finished assembling a second complete sweep around the sky, and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has again delivered an unexpected result. ‘The map has changed significantly. . . . Our discovery of changes over six months in the IBEX data from the edge of our solar system show that the interaction of our Sun and the galaxy is amazingly dynamic,’ says David McComas (Southwest Research Institute), principal investigator for the IBEX mission. ‘We thought the outer heliosphere would be stable over time, and IBEX is showing us that it’s not. This is changing the game completely.’”

The full article and video that were published September 30, 2010, are available online at Earth Changes Media.

Submitted by Frieda Nelson

“Should we stay out of the summer sun? Not at all, according to a growing group of physicians. Sunlight can be good for you.”

Read the entire article: http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/72/lighten-up/

The link to this article on the benefits of sunlight in the Health and Healing section of the September 2010 issue of Ode was submitted by Sean Savoy.