ouija board

Little Kitten – Bloody Mary

by podblack on March 14, 2009

From XKCD: Have I ever mentioned that I had two students do a preliminary study on ‘Bloody Mary’ / ‘Candyman‘ by doing this exact same thing? They had issues finding enough non-pop culture resources on the origin of doing it though and eventually switched their project to just looking at the Ouija board. I should [...]

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High School Possession And The Skeptical Teacher’s Quandary

by podblack on January 28, 2009

Today a news item popped up, which didn’t really surprise me. I’d heard of accounts of similar sorts of behaviour as ‘warnings’ to me, when I tried talking about how interesting and educational it would be to talk about the paranormal and pseudoscientific topics in the high school classroom. What should a teacher do in [...]

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