Futureandcosmos

In his book New Frontiers of the Mind: The Story of the Duke Experiments, Duke University professor Joseph Rhine discussed his search for people who would perform highly on tests of ESP. Rhine discusses tests that are mainly tests of clairvoyance, not telepathy. (The term ESP refers to both telepathy and clairvoyance.)  In a laboratory test...

 Every computer programmer is aware or should be aware of the concept of a combinatorial explosion. The term refers to a situation where the number of possibilities rises exponentially, resulting in so many possibilities that it is impossible to test them all. For a computer programmer, the problem with a combinatorial explosion is that it results in so many possibilitie...

Dying people often report seeing visions or apparitions.  But skeptics often try to sweep under the rug such experiences, by dismissing them as "delirium." 

 When I read a previous article written by science writer Phillip Ball at Quanta Magazine, an article on DNA, I felt like writing a post in response that would be entitled "Pondering DNA, Phillip Ball Drops the Ball"...