Remote Viewing Experiment Part 2
Michael Shermer takes a seminar on remote viewing, a form of ESP in which one attempts to psychically view a remote object, person, or place through intuition or a sixth sense. Shermer reveals the...
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Michael Shermer takes a seminar on remote viewing, a form of ESP in which one attempts to psychically view a remote object, person, or place through intuition or a sixth sense. Shermer reveals the...
View ArticleThe Mind of the Market on Tour
Michael Shermer read from and talked about his new book, The Mind of the Market, at various venues during his book tour in January 2008. Shermer discussed how economic and evolutionary theory speak the...
View ArticleStocks — Science Tells us When to Hold ’em & When to Fold ’em
Two new sciences shed light on an old problem of financial risk With the stock market off to its worst first week of the year in history, investors are scrambling to decide whether or not to get out of...
View ArticleWhy We Should Trade with Cuba
The new science of neuroeconomics offers new insights into old political problems The 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat expressed a principle applicable in the 21st century: “Where goods...
View ArticleReason magazine editor Nick Gillespie interviews Michael Shermer
During his book tour Michael Shermer visited the offices of Reason magazine, who have recently added Reason.TV to their media package, a project helped launched by Drew Carey, who turns out to be a big...
View ArticleAuthors @ Google presents Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer discusses his book The Mind of the Market as part of the Authors @ Google series. How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumer-traders? Why are people so...
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Faith Healing
A torrid tale of quackbusting in 1920s America sheds light on modern medical scares A review of Pope Brock’s Charlatan. America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of...
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The Mind of the Market
Evolutionary economics explains why irrational financial choices were once rational Since 99 percent our evolutionary history was spent as hunter-gatherers living in small bands of a few dozen to a few...
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The Sensed-Presence Effect
How the brain produces the sense of someone present when no one is there In the 1922 poem The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot writes, cryptically: Who is the third who always walks beside you? / When I count,...
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