Haunting the quantum field
This is starting to sound like the premise for an updated version of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape (1972). “Spooky action at a distance” is how Albert Einstein famously derided the concept of quantum...
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Equinox Festival
Edited by Raymond Salvatore Harmon 208 pages, A5, PB, £9.99 ISBN: 978-1907222009 A book companion to the three-day festival of scientific illuminism held at London’s Conway Hall on 12-14 June 2009....
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Welcome to Mars
by Ken Hollings 312pp, pb, £9.99, illustrated, index ISBN: 9780954805487 Postal Options UK £9.99 GBPEU AIR £11.99 GBPROW AIR £13.99 GBP About the book A remarkable book… quite simply, essential...
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Starlite on Tomorrow’s World
Back in 2003 I wrote about former hair-dresser Maurice Ward and his nuclear-blast-proof miracle paste, Starlite (a name given to hit by Ward’s granddaughter – he nicknamed it ‘gubbins’), for my Far...
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The Squid Doctor
‘Why does Dr. [Oliver] Sacks love cephalopods so much? They’re very smart. He says, “Cuttlefish have enormous eyes, they are curious and, I think, even affectionate. One cannot help feeling that they...
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'Like Sleepwalking While Awake'
The Strange Story of Sally Hartman : a sad 1950s tale of the CIA-out-of-control, LSD and… UFOs. In Mirage Men I touch on the possibility that some early UFO encounters, particularly the case of...
View ArticlePlacebo Power
The phrase “mind-body connection” has many connotations. For some, it’s shorthand for New Age quackery. For others, it’s a source of hope and a way to reconcile their spiritual life with modern...
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Germany win, suckers!
Strange Attractor doesn’t usually cover sporting news, but this caught our attention… Paul, an octopus in Germany, has made international headlines with his perfect record predicting the outcome of...
View ArticleCalculating Plants
Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers. Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf...
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Anosognosia and the unknown unknowns
Film-maker Errol Morris asks whether Donald Rumsfeld’s infamous quote was a sign of his intelligence, or of his ignorance and talks to psychologist David Dunning, co-author of the 1999 paper...
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