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The question of political / conspiracy theory content


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Laird, 2017-08-15, 12:41 PM

Greetings, all. I write this post in the spirit of keeping this forum as community-focussed and community-driven as possible (a spirit yet to be formalised, but I believe it will have the support of other forum founders).

The question has come up: how will this forum deal with political / conspirac

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Latest Mothman Sightings in Chicago


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

chuck, 2017-08-15, 12:34 PM

Very interesting.

Phantoms and Monsters


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Content Creation Idea -- Drive New Members to PSIENCE forum


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chuck, 2017-08-15, 12:16 PM

Just a thought and one that would take quite a bit of development. 

There are a lot of podcasts out there producing great content that intersect with the kind of folks who are here, or would be potential members of psience.

There could be a complimentary wordpress style site that aggregated th

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Magnetobiology & Magnetoreception [Resources]


Consciousness science forum    13 Replies

Max_B, 2017-08-15, 11:19 AM

Extremely weak simple oscillating magnetic fields (MF), when added to the local geomagnetic field have been observed to disrupt the European Robin's orientation (Ritz et. al. 2009), this disruption has been shown to operate

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Artificial Intelligence


General off-topic forum    22 Replies

Jim_Smith, 2017-08-15, 11:12 AM

There is an interesting discussion of AI here: 

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/272826/

In the comments someone points out that the benefit of using an expert system is that the expert system might not be as good as the best human but it is probably better than 80% of humans. Which means you are b

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Hi!


Member introductions    4 Replies

hypermagda, 2017-08-15, 11:03 AM

Hi guys!
Thanks for inviting me here. However, I may be the only woman in this Forum (please correct me if I'm wrong) - I do hope this will change soon!    Cry
Thanks for setting this up, the interface is very good, congratulations!
hypermagda


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Hi everybody.


Member introductions    1 Replies

Brian, 2017-08-15, 10:52 AM

Hi everyone good to see you all again.   Smile    Don't know what else to say as you know me pretty well by now!  Angel


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Online/automated psi experiments, past and present


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    6 Replies

Chris, 2017-08-15, 09:53 AM

After I mentioned online experiments on another thread, Laird posted a link to one devised by Daryl Bem (which I see is temporarily offline):
http://bempsi.org/

Perhaps it would be interesting to collect a list of similar experiments, whether they are still running or not. 

One long-term one

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Concertina of posts


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Max_B, 2017-08-15, 09:51 AM

This forum software has a horrible practice of putting separate posts together, if they are made in succession by the same user... can that be switched off? I'm trying to put resource threads back together, and the result is unintelligible... each post gets shoved into the last... turning it

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Magnetobiology & Magnetoreception [Resources]


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Max_B, 2017-08-15, 09:30 AM

Extremely weak simple oscillating magnetic fields (MF), when added to the local geomagnetic field have been observed to disrupt the European Robin's orientation (Ritz et. al. 2009), this disruption has been shown to operate

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