Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Have already zipped out an email regarding this one to a friend who has done research on ESP tasks — this, however, appears to be more about EEG amplifiers being used to transmit binary signals. So don’t get too excited, oh fans of the para-fantastical! Dr Christopher James from the University’s Institute of Sound and [...]
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I enjoy chatting with the multi-talented and insightful Reed Esau on a number of topics and it was a thrill to see him again at Dragon*Con this year (I now have two, TWO shirts with SkeptiCamp on them! I is happy Australian!). Today on Twitter, he raised a concern about a quote which was being [...]
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Enjoyed The Men Who Stared At Goats? Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s Crazy Rulers of the World explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary – and plain bizarre – national secrets at the core [...]
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Back into my series of interviews for this week! My next blog interview is with a man who is at the coalface of educating and researching beliefs in weird things. Dr Mark Henn is from the University of New Hampshire’s Psychology Department, which contains a grad program that values teaching enough to actually spend time [...]
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Want to upgrade your qualifications? Want six to seven hours of NBCC credit as a counselor or nurse? Why not try a ‘dozen dramatic ESP stories’! Hang onto your mediumistic teleplastics (warning – really revolting description thanks to The Guardian Science and the very-much-thankfully lost ‘art’ of the Victorian-era vaginal cheesecloth handkerchief-trick… which is kind [...]
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Women’s Wear Daily raises the question – are glasses just plain stylish rather than necessarily functional? The social swirl these days is looking less like a scene out of “High Society” and more like something straight from “Revenge of the Nerds.” Actresses Cate Blanchett, Amy Sedaris and Dana Delaney have all hit the red carpet [...]
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Sorry, my first response was not very polite – ‘…couldn’t they get a room?’ Terri Irwin Touched by Spirit of Steve. And how’s THIS for disappointing? Interesting spin the article puts on it: Hours before Edward addressed a 4500-strong crowd at Irwin’s Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast, Terri and Bob had a private session [...]
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