Edison and the Afterlife Part 2

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

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 ...

Win a Copy of Unbelievable

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

I took some pictures of the ESP machines at the Rhine ESP/Parapsychology Museum at the Rhine Research Center and I can't find all my notes!  So I was thinking, that would be a little embarrassing, not being able to properly ...

Testing Groups for ESP

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | 2 Comments »

The scientists at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory pretty much tested every group they could think of for ESP.  The picture below is from a series they did testing blind children.  The caption reads:  The subject is trying to match sealed ...

Telepathy From DARPA’s Point of View

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in General, Science Experiments | 2 Comments »

Previously I posted that while physicist Michio Kaku has written that telepathy is theoretically possible, how Kaku imagines telepathy is very different from how they saw it at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. A few recent articles in WIRED about research into ...