At the beginning of the pandemic, mainstream media would write puff pieces about weird dreams to survive the journalistic drought. As time, and COVID, have worn on, it appears dreams are back and completely kosher to discuss even in mixed company. What Kelly Bulkeley is driving at is dream analysis, key to appreciating the oeuvre […]

Music is a visceral medium, eliciting emotions and thoughts often elusive to the conscious mind and often manifesting as earworms to convey a message. Such is the case in Disney+‘s WandaVision. Lynn Zubernis has cracked the code of the motifs in the theme song, how it ties to the hit “It Was Agatha All Along”, […]

Paging Eric Wargo! Here’s a nifty intersection of high tech artificial intelligence, dreams, and down-home psychic phenomena by way of Patrick McNamara. In this case, the artificial intelligence is thhe one reading minds, while the data is compared with inquiry among scientists and psychics to see if humans can feel the future in dreams. And […]

Recently the National Academy of Sciences concluded that the mysterious illness affecting US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba since 2016 is the result of radio waves utilized to nefarious purposes. Evidently they neglected to examine evidence pointing to psychological causes. Robert Bartholomew doubles down on his Havana Syndrome Skepticism in a piece for Skeptic magazine. […]

Carl Jung’s 1957 work Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies is thoughtfully applied to the present by Kelly Bulkeley. Bulkeley does not so much consider the physical reality of UFOs, and properly does not blame the Pandemic as the catalyst for the present acceptance of flying saucers as “Serious Business.” […]

Now this is something that doesn’t come up in everyday conversation, especially amongst Baptists. Scientific inquiry concerning the gut’s flora is a burgeoning field, and many queer things have been observed and logged from (shudder) fecal transplants. The procedure’s affecting autism, altering moods, and in some cases affecting personalities which is interesting considering Gary Wenk’s […]

Research has confirmed what was once only suspected. Using the example of parking tickets accumulated by UN officials in New York City, a study conducted by two economists, Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, concluded that “independent measures of corruption in the various countries correlated with the numbers of their diplomats’ unpaid parking tickets.” Evidently paying parking […]

Writing is an odd profession, requiring considerable talent with language but also with characterization. The capacity to envision their literary offspring is easier, and it’s a breeze if one can hear the characters. Over at Psychology Today Ainsley Hawthorn has dug up a curious study concerning authors, their creations, and the unusual circumstances surrounding both. […]

It’s one thing for a broken clock to be right twice, but there’s a whole other ball of wax for Bernard Beitman when it comes to people who constantly spy the same time on their clocks. Turns out your brain is a better clock than you’d expect, dovetailing nicely with his maverick proposal. Also toying […]

A “vanishing” of a different sort for The Anomalist. There’s something rotten in China, but you knew that already. And so does Eric Haseltine who’s returning to review Google data on searches for “coronavirus” and “severe acute respiratory syndrome.” Where there were once hits on the globe’s greatest search engine, those spikes have vanished, raising […]