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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part III
THE EXPERIMENT The test was filmed by several cameras, most from the KIBS people (I have been unable to find any videos on line). The KIBS staff itself was large,…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II
STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…
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Technical problems: cache
Hi all. The links to the KIBS psychic experiment will work, once they actual stories appear on their scheduled dates. They won't work for the parts of the series that…
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The Great Far East Mission of 2009
I'm winging my way---squeezed into a seat the size of shoebox---to the Far East. Taiwan, specifically; Formosa as was. My mission there is highly classified and secret. I'll be on…
Nobel prize in medicine here I come!
From Sense about Science comes Celebrities and Science Review 2008. This article in The Independent explains it in more detail (originally linked on Instapundit). The Sense about Science report looks…
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People with nothing to do will find something to do
Universities have are a long way from what Aristotle had in mind. Full documentation here. At least download and read the letters the University sent to Sampson. Just hilarious.
(Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right
Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts…