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Spooky Month: Psychics with Dylan Marron!

52 min • 15 oktober 2024

There's a chill in the air and a shudder in our bones...it's Spooky Month! Come along with us on a treacherous journey full of mischief, mayhem, and many marvelously mysterious guests! Steady yourself, for who knows what frights lurk around the corner...

Our next shocking mystery friend to join us is none other than Dylan Marron! Tread the floorboards of Tangents Manor with us in pursuit of the truth behind fortune-telling and future-predicting as we examine Psychics! 

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[This, That, or the Other: Crystal Ball]

Weather forecast predictions

https://www.noaa.gov/stories/6-tools-our-meteorologists-use-to-forecast-weather

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-trust-farmers-almanacs-weather-predictions/

Flu shot planning

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm

Short-term volcanic eruption prediction

https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionforecast

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/24650/chapter/6

[The Scientific Definition]

Spirit trumpet

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-SPR-TRUMPET/1

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spirit-trumpets-dead-speak

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-harry-houdini-seances-and-spiritualism-were-just-an-illusion-180978944/

The Barnum effect

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/Forer_The%20fallacy%20of%20personal%20validation_1949.pdf

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810104425651

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00271.x

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-21271-001

Table-turning

https://fisherdigitus.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/psychical-research-collection/tabletalkingandtableturning/tabletalkingandtableturningboo

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2_6

https://www.ria.ie/blog/table-turning-a-victorian-fad/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Neuroscience or psychology explanations for deja vu 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-005-0677-3

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251874/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810012000049

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420423/

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/the-psychology-of-deja-vu.html

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/deja-vu

Patreon bonus: Brain-computer interfaces and using technology to detect thoughts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497935/

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/21/8639905/brain-control-robot-arm-paralyzed-quadriplegic

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa5417

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/5/4/23708162/neurotechnology-mind-reading-brain-neuralink-brain-computer-interface

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9

[Butt One More Thing]

Scatomancy pseudoscience vs. fecal tests run by gastroenterologists

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scatomancer_n_4309974

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000704.htm

https://www.columbiadoctors.org/news/how-know-your-colon-healthy

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