There’s a whole lot of thought being put into what may or may not happen in the year 2012. Many people have come to believe that some kind of major disaster is going to happen in that year. Maybe even the end of the world. The basis for all this activity is a buzz...
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What happens when a missing person turns up – dead OR alive – after some months or years? A bunch of psychics chimes up to tell the world that they were correct in the information their psychic “guide” gave to them.
The case of Jaycee Dugard, missing since 1991 and found in a backyard prison,...
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When we, as ordinary citizens, go looking for evidence of ghost activity on the internet or in books, we find the trappings of science in the way the stories of hauntings are presented. Stories of ghostly comings and goings are classified into different classes of hauntings. There are certain conditions which are supposed to...
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The burp is one of the bodily noises that can communicate satisfaction beyond words. In western culture the public burp is frowned upon but in China, for instance, a public burp is just part of life.
Many people every day use search engines to find out how to burp loud. It says a lot that...
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Many people will tell you that astrology has proven correct in many instances and that people who scoff at it are close-minded unbelievers. Let’s ask some really specific questions for a moment. If you believe that an astrologer or a magazine horoscope is good at prediction then in what way has their success shown...
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One of the elements that contributes to our talent for self deception is that our attention is not as good as we think it is. It’s as though our world is constructed partly of what we actually receive with our senses and partly with what we tell ourselves we are receiving.
Psychologists of the late...
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Astrology is one of the pseudosciences that I would like to be true. Unfortunately, after being exposed to both sides of the argument for many years, I have to say that I do not believe that astrology forecasts are true.
But then everything is subjective:
“I do not believe in astrology; but then, people of my...
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October 31 is Halloween. All Hallows Eve. We all know about it – it’s a famous American holiday. Halloween began around two thousand years ago in the region that corresponds to Britain, Ireland and France. The people of this region were known as Celts and they believed that this time of year was the...
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Passing spaghetti through the nose is possibly the least disgusting trick involving food, people and orifices. Here is a brief description of how to do this trick but I should warn you that I do not advise you to try it. If a part of your spaghetti gets stuck in your throat or airway...
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Crop circles are shapes of varying degrees of complexity which are found in fields of crops. The development of more interesting shapes of crop circles has occurred over the many years since they were first discovered. Many people have come forward and owned up to creating crop circles but still the general belief seems...
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