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This Old House Jennifer Egan |
The Ghost in the Renovation The acclaimed author of The Keep, which tells the story of the renovation of a "haunted" castle, delves into the gothic dimensions of home improvement. |
This Old House |
Got Ghosts? If so, this real-life ghost buster has some advice on what you'll need to do to send them on their way to the sweet hereafter. |
Scientific American August 2006 Michael Shermer |
Folk Science Before the rise of modern science we had only our folk intuitions to guide us. But folk science gets it wrong because we evolved in a radically different environment. |
Scientific American May 2006 Michael Shermer |
SHAM Scam In the recent book Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, investigative journalist Steve Salerno explains how talks and tapes offer a momentary boost of inspiration that fades after a few weeks, turning buyers into repeat customers. |
Reason December 2005 Jeese Walker |
Weird Science In 2004 the U.S. Air Force released a report on the feasibility of teleportation. The average reader might suspect the Pentagon could have gotten more for its money by buying a dozen hammers, but a few analysts have stepped up to defend the project. |
Scientific American November 2005 Michael Shermer |
Rupert's Resonance The theory of "morphic resonance" posits that people have a sense of when they are being stared at. However, psychologists dismiss anecdotal accounts of this sense to a reverse self-fulfilling effect. What does the research show? |
Wired September 2004 Joseph D'Agnese |
Scientific Method Man Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer's to the origins of the universe. |
Reason November 2003 Matt Welch |
Keeping Psychics Honest Time was, a self-respecting augur or necromancer could ply her trade in San Francisco without the long arm of the nanny state reaching into her pocket for money and the right paperwork. No more. |
Reason July 2003 Jacob Sullum |
The Anti-Pleasure Principle The "food police" and the pseudoscience of self-denial |
Science News June 28, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Theorems in Wheat Fields The architects of certain crop circles near Stonehenge seem to show an uncanny facility with Euclidean geometry. |
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