parapsychology

Dr Richard Wiseman On Remote Viewing In The Daily Mail – Clarification

by podblack on September 28, 2009

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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http://www.shavemyyeti.com/

by podblack on July 21, 2009

I think it speaks for itself, really… Shave My Yeti is an advert, but kind of cute.

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In Press! Again! Whoot!

by podblack on March 13, 2009

Here’s me! Here’s the latest Australian Skeptic! I’m on the front cover again! Kind of – you can see the title of one of the articles I wrote. I wrote ‘An Introduction to Parapsychology‘ and did an interview with Dr Caroline Watt (you can catch the Skeptic Zone interview with her here). I also did [...]

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Skeptic Zone – The Parapsychologist Is In!

by podblack on February 27, 2009

Remember how I blogged about doing a great online unit in Parapsychology? Now listen to the great lady of the course herself, Dr Caroline Watt, on the latest Skeptic Zone podcast! Richard Saunders interviews Dr Caroline Watt – member of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Excellent show, well worth putting aside [...]

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Sheldrake Re-Release Of Telepathy Book – Blackmore Comments

by podblack on February 5, 2009

The Guardian: The third edition of Rupert Sheldrake’s book, A New Science of Life, will be published in the UK this week. Unlike most enthusiasts for the paranormal, Sheldrake, who enjoyed success for many years as a conventional biochemist, frames his hypotheses as science; he designs and reports experiments. Yet when A New Science of [...]

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I Has Parapsychology Certificate!

by podblack on January 29, 2009

Neener! I did an online unit! I’m going to get this framed! That is my Certificate of Completion for the Introduction to Parapsychology Course, run by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh! This new short course (commenced September 2008) is taught entirely online and is open to anyone regardless of geographical location. [...]

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Not In Mother’s Good Linen! Apparitional Observations And Findings

by podblack on January 16, 2009

For “On The Shoulders of Giants Blog Carnival”. One of the books that I dip into for fun (and more recently, for research) is Mary Roach’s ‘Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife‘. There’s a pair of papers from 1959, discussed on pages 232-234, which got me wondering about research into spotting ghosts and how improved research [...]

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Is This A Superstition I See Before Me?

by podblack on November 29, 2008

Theatre/theater superstitions again! I’ve covered this before in a few posts — theatre superstitions, ballet superstitions, even an interview of a WAAPA professor on theater superstitions — but I came across my old recordings of the BBC comedy show starring Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder recently and discovered that YouTube have gone widescreen on their site. [...]

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