It appears that Ed Cone gets some commenters who desperately need to tune in next time Skeptic's Circle comes around! They defend this crap (and, in turn, attack Randi of all people) in the comment thread! Oy vey! Some people still believe in spoon-bending and are vehemently defending it in a public forum with no sense of shame! What woo!
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In the January 4th, 1961 episode of One Step Beyond, director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception.
Oh man sometimes even I, a staunch Caltech grad, wish I could be at MIT. The MIT QIP seminar this next Monday looks...intriguing (Monday 10/26 at 4:00 in 36-428 silly MITers and their numbered buildings, so cold.):
David Kaiser (MIT)
How the Hippies Saved Physics
Who was the guest on yesterday's episode of The Colbert Report? It was Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist at The Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia.
Watching 30 Rock and the Office tonight I kept on seeing this commercial for a new show called "Phenomenon". The story goes:
I believe in spoon-bending. I've bent a few spoons myself. Now psychic spoon-bending, that I've never seen.