Happy Thanksgiving to all you awesome people! To celebrate, we’re covering the Lost Colony of Roanoke and what sounds like a whole bunch of people getting yelled at to hurry the eff up to get into boats.
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Guardian angels are rad, even if they’re just hallucinations from the temporoparietal junction. Say yes to ghostly love hugs, no to floating intestines.
This week we’re talking about Guardian Angels and the 3rd man effect. Email us with encounters YOU have had with these ghost-bros! stories@zeropercentscared.com
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The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
NPR’s take on the book
Surveys of Angelic belief in AmericaShackleton the amazing explorer guy
Shackleton and his ‘fourth presence’T.S. Elliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” (based loosely on Shackleton’s experience)
The Strange World of Felt Presences from the Guardian
Autoscopic phenomena: case report and review of literature (2011)
Induction of an illusory shadow person (2006)
Feeling of presence in Parkinson’s disease (2010)
VIDEO: Turkish shopkeeper saved by ‘guardian angel’
The Rescue of Baby Lily: Is this baby proof angels exist?
VIDEO: Who called out to baby Lily’s Rescuers?
Felt Presence: the uncanny encounters with the numinous Other (2010)
First of all: HAPPY HALLOWEEN MY PEOPLE!
Second: It’s unanimous, nobody likes clowns. Or Disney World. OK fine that last one is just Kelly, but the clown thing is real. Especially when they’re trying to murder you. Let’s phase out the clowns, people. Phase them out.
Email us, peeps! stories@zeropercentscared.com
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Have you seen Pet Sematary? No? Cool definitely keep it that way. We have some NUTS animal stories for you. Nature is metal. Ghost dogs are metal.
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GUYS. We’re back and it’s the most paranormal month of the year!
Tune in to hear about how the Zombie Apocalypse is definitely inevitable and all about crazy drugs that apparently you can only get in Florida.
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Nobel laureates totally dig the paranormal!! Ok maybe just a few of them do…but still.
We talk about Francis Crick’s love of panspermia, Charles Richet’s devotion to extrasensory perception, and Ray Kurzweil’s tech predictions and commitment to immortality. Also we are going on vacation for two weeks, so don’t cry (too much).
As always, keep the emails coming!
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Directed Panspermia
Charles Richet, Sarah’s psi hero
Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next!
2029: Singularity Year – Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Ray Kurzweil
Ramez Naam Nexus Trilogy series
Silicon Valley’s quest to live forever
John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets of a Silicon Valley startup
We’ve talked about pop culture vamps, and old school vamps, but what about modern-day blood drinkers? Well, good old Stephen Kaplan delved into this back in the 1970s in his Vampire Research Center, which really just seemed like a vampire dating service.
Are you a vampire who found love through the VRC? Share your love story! Let’s make a rom com!
We all know by now that Dr. Kelly loves a good tarot card reading. And being a “gifted psychic”, she can tell you that your future holds a lighthearted overview of tarot cards AND a heated fight about statistics. Oh and also, you’re all going to have a super awesome life. Promise. The cards told her.
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p-values and statistics!
Wasserstein RL, Schrim AL, Lazar, NA.Moving to a World Beyond “p<0.05”. The American Statistician (2019)
Amrhein V, Greenland S, McShane B. Scientists rise up against statistical significance. Nature (2019)
Precognition Science
Bem D et al., Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events F1000 Research (2015)
Engber D.Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Slate (2017)
Ritchie SJ, Wiseman R and French CC.Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem’s ‘Retroactive Facilitation of Recall’ Effect. PlosONE (2012)
French C. Precognition studies and the curse of the failed replications. The Guardian (2012)
Rouder JN and Morey RD.A Bayes factor meta-analysis of Bem’s ESP claim. Psychon Bull Rev (2011)
Rabeyron, T,Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a test–retest design
Everyone wanted to be a witch in middle school, am I right? Also, who wants to help design a science experiment to measure the global consciousness effects on reality? Come on! You know you want to.
This episode Sarah and Kelly discuss magical spells and whether they have any effect on reality. Sarah uses science words to prove MAYBE!
4:57 — it’s called a paper fortune teller, chatterbox or cootie catcher (what!?). Here’s how to make em!
Real Magic by Dr. Dean Radin
The Global Consciousness Project
Shutulman and Morgan. 2017 The explanatory structure of unexplainable events: Causal constraints on magical reasoning
Minisode #2 continues the Ouija theme from last week. This week we present: A scary college Ouija tale courtesy of our good friend Manny, plus the terrifying TRUE story that inspired the movie THE EXORCIST!
Never fear skeptics, we’ve got the lowdown on excorcism science as well!
Joining us today is a mystery guest Medical Doctor, standing in for Kelly Ruggles.
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