Going into this lecture I had absolutely zero faith in psychic crime detectives. There is no science that I know of happening there. However...

This is perhaps my favorite set of slides. My mother is a music therapist. I wont ever discredit the value of music as a therapy, because I ...

This was one of my favorites because it was like going down memory lane. I remember first hearing about Y2K and the mild side of panic it ca...

These slides had very interesting testimonials. However going into them, I was already aware that humans utilized over 10% of their brains. ...

Growing up near the Pine Barrens I am all too familiar with the story of the Jersey Devil. As for something that is spoken about on such a f...

In regards to the slides about Ways of Thinking, the slide that peaked my interest was the Ted Talk regarding patternicity; finding patterns...

I honestly want all of my posts to be of a positive nature, but I find myself bothered by the interviews and subjects of so many of our lec...

That video with James Randi exposing Uri Geller and Peter Popoff was fascinating, however the Popoff part made me think about a old presenta...

Cryptids or animals not recognized by science are extremely fascinating because of the of the aura of mystery that surround them. A kid I re...

Michael Shermer’s book, Why People Believe Weird Things, analyzes pseudoscience, superstitions, and other confusing subjects of our time. ...

Mass hysteria occurs when a large group of people  fall in to a start of panic or suddenly exhibit strange abnormal behaviors. Popular examp...

There is fast thinking and slow thinking. Thinking slowly is how science is done and how we get correct answers and actually solve problems....

I find it interesting that whenever you needed to prove a psychic wrong all you have to do is not let them use their own props. Like when Ur...

Area 51 has had spurred conspiracy theories as an unidentified flying object and alien holding site for decades. Needless to say,...

Telepathy, also known as mental surfing, mind induction, psyche probe, thought casting, or TP, is the power to mentally receive and/o...

New Jersey’s oldest, most important piece of folklore is the Jersey Devil. Jerseyans have been telling stories of this mythical beast for ...

A long time ago, I heard someone say "Humans will lose their pinky" (some kid at a playground 12 years ago). At the time I a...

            I feel like the UFO abduction lecture obviously ties well to the false memory lecture as well. This is a really weird area, b...

            I found this to be really interesting, as I recently watched  Zodiac , and this was a huge piece of that case. The detectives...

            This is one of the paranormal phenomena that I have known about the longest. It was always in Urban Legend books, and jumped ...