Near Death and Immortality
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 Posted in Science Experiments | No Comments »An interesting piece in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience called, Near-death experiences between science and prejudice. And, an article about a 5 million grant from the John Temple Foundation to UC Riverside philosopher John Fischer for research on aspects of immortality. ...
EVP Experiment at the Rhine Research Center
Monday, February 6th, 2012 Posted in General, Science Experiments | No Comments »This call for volunteers came in my email: "The Rhine Research Center is looking for a number of participants to take part in a study on "electronic voice phenomena" (voice-like sounds that can be heard on audio recordings (such as ...
Jessica Utts Lecture
Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | No Comments »I came across this lecture given last year by statistician Jessica Utts (Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine) titled: The strength of evidence versus the power of belief: Are we all Bayesians? From the description on the page for this ...
Ted Serios
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Posted in General, People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | 60 Comments »I don't really know a lot about Ted Serios. He was said to be able make images appear on Polaroid film by using his mind. He called them "thoughtographs." Gaither Pratt, a scientist formerly associated with the ...
The Medium Who Committed Suicide
Monday, December 6th, 2010 Posted in General, Letters to the Lab, People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | 2 Comments »I had intended to write about Ted Serios, the man who was said to be able to take pictures with his mind. But while reading through some 1962 letters about Serios between Dr. J. B. Rhine and Pauline Oehler, who ...
Dr. Michael Persinger
Monday, September 6th, 2010 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | 11 Comments »There's a relatively recent interview at the Scientific Paranormal Investigative Research Information website with Dr. Michael Persinger, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at Laurentian University. Persinger has been doing some interesting work over the years. There's a series of lectures ...
The Study of Human Experiences Project
Saturday, June 19th, 2010 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | No Comments »Two people who helped me with my book, Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado and Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone, have set up a new research website called the Study of Human Experiences Project. In addition to a project they're working on with residents ...
