The Haunted Brain
by Richard Wiseman
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 35.5
Reports of alleged ghostly activity tell us a great deal about the innermost workings of our brains.
Reports of alleged ghostly activity tell us a great deal about the innermost workings of our brains.
How to make a perpetual motion device and live to tell about it.
Sathya Sai Baba, a living god for nearly forty million people, died in April. He had a nine-billion-dollar organization and religious centers throughout the world. Who was Baba? Why was he thought to be a god?
Il Sacro Catino, “The Holy Basin,” is one of the most famous embodiments of the legendary “Holy Grail,” and I was able to study both it and its legend there in the fall of 2009, attempting to resolve some of the mysteries and controversies concerning it.
Stem cells have tremendous potential, and they will likely be playing an increasing role in medical therapies over the next twenty years. But reality has yet to catch up with the hype.
Yet another claimant to the title of America’s “most haunted” place, Alcatraz certainly reigns as one of the world’s most notorious jails.