In the course of our research Denis and I have come across findings that can only be put under this heading...so here are a couple of them. 1)An Israeli cardiologist and an epidemiologist published a paper way back in the 1990's. They studied sunspots and admissions to the mental health wards of a local hospital group. (I could never understand why a cardiologist would be looking at mental health stats but he did...) They found that unusually vigorous sunspot activity correlated with an increase in admissions to these wards one year later. I am sure that the epidemiologist would be careful to publish only statistically valid results and so this info is correct. Try as I might I cannot come up with a reason or mechanism for this effect. Perhaps you can. 2)Someone published a paper (actually it was a German scientist) that showed a relationship between toothache and weather activity. If I remember correctly his theory was that a pocket of air would be trapped in a tooth cavity. When there was a change in the weather, changes in the characteristics of the air in this pocket would stimulate pain fibres in the tooth. (air pressure up? humidity up? temperature rise?... he didn't qualify how he simply said it happened. As we learnt with MediClim research it is probably a combination of all three, together with other factors such as wind activity, that act in synthesis.) 3) A Japanese researcher did an elegant experiment which showed that mammalian skulls transmit light. He was able to prove that, even with eyelids closed tightly, the brain responds to changes in light levels. Gives a whole new meaning to the term "eyes wide shut." It beggars the question as to why this should be so, and also, since nature abhors redundancy, what use you and I make of this facility. (Even the appendix, which was always cited as an example of a "left over" with no discernible function, has been assigned one. Apparantly it is part of the antibody system of our bowels. Don't ask me for further details...) 4) In Holland an epidemiologist pointed out that with the occurrence of a particular weather pattern more senior citizens were admitted to hospital e.r. wards with carbon monoxide poisoning. This paper is very old (at least by today's rapidly changing standards) because he further showed that these were seniors ("wrinklies" the Brits call them) who used wood stoves as their prinicipal heating source. It turns out that the weather pattern was one in which a layer of heavier cold air laid over a lighter one. Because the outside temperature was down low the unlucky sufferers had closed all their windows tight and lit their stoves. The smoke from the fire could not escape properly and so carbon monoxide built up in the houses... the wrinklies fell asleep, there were no carbon monoxide alarms and so some of them ended up in hospital...or the morgue. As a result it was decided that public health nurses would call seniors they knew who used wood stoves when this particular weather was forecast. Mediclim is the updated version of the public health nurse... and if you have your personal weather sensitivity plotted, which we can do for you, we can warn you two, or even, three days ahead. John, Florence N., Bart.