Featured Story #1

How To Draw A Nude Woman

This video is aimed at people who are afraid that they might be approached by a nude woman who is anxious to have you paint her portrait. Certainly, if you have little or no artistic talent or experience, you are quite right to be worried. This video will give you all the knowledge you need [...]

Abby Lane | June 26th, 2009 | Continued

Featured Story #2

Hiding An Unwanted Erection

We live in a world that does not want to know when we have erections. As long as this situation exists we must come up with new ways to hide or quell erections that happen at inopportune times. Going out of the house prepared for the worst is one way. Many guys swear by the [...]

Abby Lane | June 23rd, 2009 | Continued

Featured Story #3

Accepting The Placebo Effect

It seems to me that if we are ever going to find out the truth about anything, we first need to find out about how we work. The placebo effect seems like a good place to start. Wherever a group of people form a community there will be certain functions or roles naturally allotted to [...]

Abby Lane | May 26th, 2009 | Continued

Featured Story #4

Is Alison Dubois An Authentic Psychic?

Alison Dubois is the name of a real person who says she talks to dead people in her dreams. Whenever anybody makes some kind of extraordinary claims about having psychic abilities you have to wonder whether or not they are aware that James Randi has offered a reward of one million dollars for anyone who [...]

Abby Lane | May 11th, 2009 | Continued

Featured Story #5

Mass Hysteria And Our Imaginary World

There is a world outside of ourselves but we often replace it with our imaginary world.
Now that we have a real flu outbreak that may or may not turn nasty, it’s a good time to look at a couple of imaginary illnesses that gripped small communities in the not too distant past. We should take [...]

Abby Lane | May 3rd, 2009 | Continued

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Is It Okay To Have Sex With A Ghost?

People of both sexes have reported feeling that they have been molested by a ghost. They feel a pressure on their body and they “know” the ghost is having sex with them, or trying to.
You can accept the idea that the cause of such experiences is supernatural but there is another explanation. It’s called hypnagogic [...]

2Jul2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

How To Become An Artist

Whether you want to become an artist to stroke your own ego or you really feel that you have something to say, it is possible, and you begin with something you are interested in.
Your interest could be in the medium you use, for instance you might feel good applying pastels to paper. Your interest could [...]

29Jun2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

The art of post mortem photography

I recently watched a movie called “The Others” which featured some family photos taken in the Victorian era. What made these pictures special was that all the subjects were dead. Further investigation revealed that taking photographs of deceased members of the family was a common practice in the early years of photography.
In some pictures [...]

19Jun2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

Sneezing In The Sunlight

Nobody really knows why many people sneeze when they go into the sunshine. It’s called photic sneezing and there is a theory that could be the explanation for what happens. The optic nerve is the nerve responsible for contracting the pupils of the eyes in bright light, and the trigeminal nerve which is responsible for [...]

16Jun2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

The moment you don’t decide

When we feel that we are not getting enough out of life - that neither our work lives or leisure time are giving us any reward - it’s time to take a look at how we allocate our priorities. How do we spend our time? Are we being overwhelmed by the demands of work? Do [...]

11Jun2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

The Art Of Cold Reading

Cold reading is one way unscrupulous people can use to exploit the wishful thinking of vulnerable and gullible victims.
Cold reading is the art of extracting information from a person by psychological manipulation so that you can pretend to have obtained the information through psychic powers. The study of cold reading techniques presents a great opportunity [...]

4Jun2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued

Creation And Evolution

For hundreds of years people in European based culture believed that the story of creation as outlined in the bible was the literal truth. As scientists began relying more on the evidence of their senses and the general populace started following their lead, a debate began to heat up. One side of the argument belonged [...]

20May2009 | Abby Lane | 0 comments | Continued