The report "Testing a Language-Using Parrot for Telepathy," by Rupert Sheldrake and Aim?e Morgana, includes these provocatively calming words of confident caution: [T]hese experiments provide compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy. This phenomenon is currently unexplained within the dominant scientific model. (Thanks to investigator Audrey Devine-Eller for bringing this to our attention.)
Do you have restless legs?
Do you truly have restless legs? Consider, then, the work of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation.
Facing Santa
Pediatric reactions to Santa Claus are photo-documented in a new research project. Based in South Florida, the project would seem to confirm the disturbing findings reported last year (and subsequently in more detail) by 2003 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner John Trinkaus.
Best of the Bad
Once again, thanks to Popular Science magazine, there is a list of the worst jobs in science.