Sarah Kanning

Ray Hyman discusses how unconscious expectations can cause such allegedly psychic phenomena as dowsing, table tipping and table rapping, automatic “spirit” writing, and form the basis of some diagnostic methods in alternative medicine in this excellent article from Quackwatch: How People Are Fooled by Ideomotor Action.
For fictional applications of some of this information, I recommend [...]

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Courtesy of XKCD: A Webcomic - Android Girlfriend.

As you were.

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Okay, so it turns out it was bad timing for me to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy last week, right before the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert from 3 to 4 (I think levels 5 and 6 are the official “holy crap” levels), AND two (mild) cases of swine flu turned [...]

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“The trend towards the future will be robots reacting to robot attack, especially when operating at technologic speed. . . . As the loop gets shorter and shorter, there won’t be any time in it for humans.”

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Feeling good today because after a rough couple of days I am back in my routine for writing: first alarm goes off at 5 a.m., I drowse and groggily contemplate starting the day until second alarm goes off at 5:15, get up, get dressed, and sit down with breakfast and my notebook to work on [...]

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