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Why the Darwin Awards Should Die
The Darwin Awards are a commodification of callous ghoulishness that celebrates people's death and misfortune.
The manufactured, badly-behaved Ouija demon: Zozo (Book Review)
In the classic book Psychology of Superstition, Gustav Jahoda writes that beliefs are not just in our heads, they affect our behavior, and that self-fulfilling prophecy is not uncommon in human affairs (p. 8). Many
Misbehaving lakes: Three water bodies that exhale death gas
In August 1986, approximately 1800 people living in a 15-mile radius of Lake Nyos in Cameroon didn’t live to see the morning, dying by suffocation from toxic gas exhaled from the bottom of the lake.
The “Stone Tape Theory” of hauntings: A geological perspective
The Stone Tape "Theory" is touted regularly as a potential explanation for residual hauntings. Is it scientific? What does a geologist think about it?
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