Shown on 7 January 2005, Brown traveled to the United States to try to convince five leading figures that he had powers in their particular field of expertise: Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, New Age theories and contacting the dead. … Brown made it quite clear with each experiment that if any of the [...]

Cheesy? It is, but not without its merits.

Reincarnate and only entropy springs eternal: everything I have created over the infinite span of all consciousness – every exertion of will against the elements, every etching into the inanimate face of eternity, every stroke of every paintbrush that a hand ever held… Last July, “a 32-year-old woman wearing lipstick kissed a painting by American [...]

Look no further, psychotic asylum-denizens and sane (if rightfully morose) discontents … whether you need a normative answer to buy your ticket off the hospital grounds or you would like to play madman for a while, the secrets of the Rorschach Test have finally come home to roost at Wikipedia. Is this a boon for [...]

Worth reading in full for its striking analysis of the polar difference between empathy and observation: Even though we might not realize it, we coordinate our mental and physical states with other people around us. In this research, social coordination can help or it can hurt, depending on how much we tend to get inside [...]

George MeteskyAKA The Mad Bomber When you catch him-and I have no doubt you will-he’ll be wearing a double-breasted suit. – Criminal profiling made easy. This humorous (in a manner that only true crime can be) tale of “dastardly deeds” made my day.

A wise piece of general internet etiquette reads: “Do not feed the trolls.” One would do well to remember this… … but what of the petty, manipulative people you meet in your everyday existence? What of the pathological liars, the drama queens, the shifty gossips, and the parasitic leeches who pass themselves off as salesmen? [...]