Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
For the past few years (dotted in amongst my posts of YouTube videos and my complaints about doing the ‘Wireless Waltz’ in conference rooms waving my laptop around, trying to get AirPort to pick up a signal)… I have blogged about various research interests and referenced a few papers. It’s good fun to keep track [...]
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Muppet Labs Experiment 5T832: Ghost Hunt – Muppet Labs investigates a haunted house and discovers the supernatural, naturally!
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Feel free to ask your own questions – head to Podblackblog on Twitter and ‘tweet’ your question! Topics like superstition, belief in the paranormal, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and gender differences are particularly fun to tackle. A question from Naontiotami – visit his blog too! What does supernatural mean? Okay – apparently someone told Naontiotami [...]
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Just in from Orlando Sentinal! You can’t keep a shaggy dog story down… especially when it’s one that ends up having people put in jail unfairly – wha? Hang on? News item from Central Florida, where apparently people were being convicted of violent crimes, based almost exclusively on the “testimony” of a police dog – [...]
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Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who has made many studies of the supernatural, launched the investigation a month ago. Members of the public were asked to submit ghostly images for experts to analyse, the best of which were posted on the website www.scienceofhauntings.com. More than 250 pictures were received from all over [...]
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I got a notice today from the The Australian Science Teachers’ Association, on an issue I’d known about for a while – the National Science Curriculum Framing Paper. I thought I may as well broadcast the links that will direct what will be going on and urge people to have a say – and hope [...]
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“Milan…. it’s also home to two of the world’s most famous skeptics…” Italian mystery detectives Massimo Polidoro and Luigi Garlaschelli test a kung fu master who claims he can knock someone out just by thinking about it. The results are a bit different than you might think… (…nah, it’s not, but do check it out!) [...]
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Well, you can see women screaming ‘Derek Ogilvie Debunked My Baby!’ right here on YouTube — broken into five parts… Thanks threespeed79! Derek Ogilvie says he can read the minds of infants who are too young to communicate verbally. Now he agrees to undergo a series of controlled experiments to test the limits of his [...]
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