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...further: I don't trust the government or the Washington establishment or the presidential candidates of either party or, for that matter, the voters themselves to come up with a stimulus that will do the job intended and not make matters worse. Often in the past, these stimuli have come too late or been too small to do anything but add to the deficit. But that's not my gripe. My gripe is that telling Americans they need to borrow and spend just a little bit more to get us past this recession?and then reform their ways?is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair of the Dog | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

According to Moulton, if ESP existed, the brain would respond differently to pictures designated as ESP stimuli and non-ESP stimuli. Theoretically, pictures perceived through ESP should produce a pattern in the brain similar to ones produced when an individual sees a previously encountered stimulus...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Dispute ESP | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...procedure involved participants viewing sets of photographs while inside an fMRI scanner. Some of the pictures, designated “ESP stimuli,” were also presented to the subject via the different forms of ESP. Stimuli shown telepathically were presented simultaneously to another person—the subject’s relative, romantic partner or friend—in a separate location. Stimuli presented by clairvoyance, the ability to perceive distant things or events, were displayed on a computer located outside the subject’s field of vision. Finally, pictures presented through precognition, the ability...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Dispute ESP | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

Instead, Moulton found that participants responded identically to both stimuli types, resulting in the lack of a statistically significant difference that is referred to as a “null result...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Dispute ESP | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...research base. Studies at her SPD Research Institute, adjacent to the STAR clinic, have identified neurological differences between children with sensory-processing problems and typical kids. In one set of experiments, electrodes are attached to children's hands to measure nervous-system activity in response to a series of stimuli that include a siren, a powerful wintergreen scent, the brush of a feather against the cheek--each repeated eight times. A healthy child will show a strong electrodermal response--basically a measure of sweating or stress--to the first exposure but will quickly habituate, showing little response to the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Attention Deficit Disorder? | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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