Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Yes, I know it’s a catchy looking headline, and it’s meant to be! But you can drop the old paradox about going back to kill your great-great-grandfather. That doesn’t apply here.
The thing about intuition which has always bugged me a little (or a lot, depending on many factors), is where does the information come […]
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Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
We return this week, dear reader, to one of my favorite topics, the placebo effect. I have written about this elsewhere (more specifically, in this link and this one).
You can imagine my joy, therefore, when I found this article which mentions it as well.
Being the UK Guardian it is a serious and concerned article which […]
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Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Every now and then I come across an article which amazes me at what it doesn’t say or what it assumes. This article is a case in point. It comes from physorg.com. (subheading; science: physics : tech : nano : news) Apparently it refers to University of Missouri-Columbia Professor Laura King’s research into how mood […]
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Posted on March 7th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
The article which caught my eye this time was this one from the Highland News and North Star. (Yes, I know I have great reading tastes!)
However, the story, about two people who both admitted they had psychic abilities (notice, I’m not using the ‘P’ word here: ‘powers’), is most interesting to me because of […]
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