A New Magazine: EdgeScience

Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Books and Publications, Science Experiments | No Comments »

I'm so excited about this new magazine EdgeScience! And it's coming out from the Society for Scientific Exploration. You can download the first issue for free. There's an article about the Global Consciousness Project by Roger D. ...

The Sacred Mushroom

Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | 2 Comments »

On January 24, 1961, the TV show One Step Beyond aired an episode about ESP and psychedelics which is available on YouTube. I loved hearing the One Step Beyond theme music, and host John Newland using his Ooh-I-Am-Saying-Something-Scary-voice to ...

Another Inventor and the Afterlife: Glenn W. Watson

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | 1 Comment »

Watching the History’s Detectives segment about Thomas Edison reminded me of another inventor who had an interest in subjects related to parapsychology: Glenn W. Watson. From my book: "Just before Rhine retired from Duke in 1965, a 75-year-old inventor ...

Edison and the Afterlife Part 2

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | No Comments »

History’s Detectives did a very entertaining segment about Edison’s machine (thank you for the pointer, Winifer Skattebol). You can see it here. It's the first historical mystery they try to solve and it's really worth watching. And, one of ...

ESP Machines

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

This machine was built to shuffle the famous Zener cards, aka ESP cards.  That is the late Dr. Elizabeth McMahan in the picture.

Mirror Neurons

Sunday, August 16th, 2009 Posted in Science Experiments | 1 Comment »

I'm probably revealing my science-ignorance, but a paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience this month about an experiment that may have found evidence of something called mirror neurons in the human brain.  I don't have access to the Journal of ...

Photographs from the Cat Experiments

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

In the early 1950's, while he was working at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, Dr. Karlis Osis conducted two experiments with cats.  I didn't study these experiments, and what I know of them I got from Gaither Pratt's book, Parapsychology: An ...