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African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need


Consciousness science forum    5 Replies

Sci, 2020-01-11, 09:42 PM

African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need

Michael Le Page

[quote]African grey parrots are not only really smart, they are helpful too. They are

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No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse.


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2020-01-10, 10:03 PM

No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse.

A. Mann

[quote]A crisis in physics may have just gotten deeper. By looking at how the light from distant bright objects is bent, researche

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Kit Pedler


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    5 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-10, 09:13 PM

I am watching the old BBC drama series Doomwatch on DVD. Made about 50 years ago, it deals with the activities of a fictitious government department tasked with investigating the harmful side-effects of scientific and technological research, and particularly their impact on the environment. Kit Pedl

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Jerry Coyne really doesn't like panpsychism.


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    5 Replies

Will, 2020-01-10, 05:59 PM

Oy! LiveScience touts panpsychism as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness

[url=https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/01/05/pan

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New finding about how human neurons work


Consciousness science forum    6 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-09, 08:35 AM

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - this is being billed over-excitedly (not by the scientists who did the work) as "the missing link between brain matter and consciousness." That doesn't make much sense to me, but if the finding is right it seems interesting (1) that such a fundamental feature has only j

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4,000-Year-Old Guide to Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated Text


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Sci, 2020-01-09, 04:58 AM

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated ‘Book’

Katherine J. Wu

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Seeing blindfolded


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    59 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-08, 08:39 AM

Psiclops on Skeptiko has started a thread on claims by Rob Freeman and Wendy Gallant about people's ability to learn to perceive colours and recognise numbers and letters when blindfolded. Freeman has posted a number of videos to YouTube. (Psiclops's post also refers briefly to training the blind to

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Wiseman et al analysis of registered reports in the EJP


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    3 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-06, 08:35 AM

Someone kindly let me know about this paper published in PeerJ early last year by Richard Wiseman, Caroline Watt and Diana Kornbrot, entitled "Registered reports: An early example and analysis."
https://peerj.com/articles/6232/

Here is the abstract:
[i]"The recent ‘replication crisis’ in psychology

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Forthcoming documentary on the Rendlesham Forest Incident, 1980


UFO/UAP forum    1 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-06, 08:00 AM

Courtesy of Mysterious Universe - David Clarke has a positive review of a forthcoming film documentary on the Rendlesham Forest incident by Adrian Frearson, entitled "Codename Rendlesham":
https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2019/12/31/c...endlesham/

Here is the film's page on the website of Chill

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World’s scientists turn to Asia and Australia to rewrite human history


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Sci, 2020-01-06, 05:03 AM

World’s scientists turn to Asia and Australia to rewrite human history

Michelle Langley


[quote]
[color=#383838][size=large]The original story went something like this: modern h

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