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...bygone days in Merry England, no one thought twice about seeing ghosts; they were as common a household item as chairs and tables. Today an estimated one out of every five English men and women still sees ghosts or experiences "psychic phenomena," but in keeping with the times scrutinizes them scientifically. Researcher Eric Dingwall analyzes some classic ghosts and ghost see-ers with the latest tools of his trade, including psychiatry and statistical research. Most famous is the 19th century Scotsman Daniel Dunglas Home, who set up a salon in Paris where he produced table rappings, voices, visions, and even...
...article describing Leet's hypothesis will appear in the latest issue of the Scientific American, out this week. It is Leet's thesis that the pattern of shock waves radiated by a nuclear blast are very different from those of earthquakes and other natural phenomena...
...controversial thesis, and a controversial book, which tries to provide social Darwinism with a basis in biological fact. Much of African Genesis is pure speculation, much is bad interpretation of well-known phenomena, and more than a little of it is simply untrue. But it is all interesting, and if Ardrey's most startling argument, that man has always been a weapon-bearing predator, should prove true, then our conceptions about the innate nature of man may have to be drastically revised...
...moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and a supposedly invisibly body called Khetu moved into a position within 16 degrees of each other at 7:05 a.m. Saturday. Although some people born under the sign of Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) have interpreted the phenomena as a personal threat, Saturday's Boston Globe Star Gazer would only reveal that the day was "beneficial to domestic settlements and intimate affairs," for Aquaril...
...tale gained fresh horror from every possible explanation. But the men who wrote this picture, Truman Capote and Playwright Archibald, unhappily press hard, much harder than James did, for the psychiatric interpretation. They have obviously failed to perceive that in suggesting a normal, everyday basis for the ghastly phenomena, they must inevitably relieve the spectator of his nameless horror of what happens. But isn't horror, when all's said and done, the one important experience this tale is intended to communicate...