Death, Mourning & the Afterlife

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Telekinesis Lab at Princeton Closes

admin | February 22, 2007 | 0 Comments

In 1979, Professor Robert Jahn, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, opened the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab. Since then, he along with partner, Brenda Dunne, have run millions of trials on humans’ ability to alter a pattern of random events generated by a machine. The lab closed this month.

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Deja Vu Recreated in the Lab

admin | August 14, 2006 | 0 Comments

Up to 97% of people claim to have experienced deja vu – that you’ve seen or experienced something before but you can’t place where or when. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Leeds, UK, lead by Akira O’Connor have replicated the phenomenon in the lab.

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

admin | June 19, 2006 | 0 Comments

In Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach gave a humorous summary of what happens to our bodies when we die. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife looks beyond the physical for proof that a part of us survives death.

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Ed’s Cemetery Traveler Blog

The Cemeteries of Germantown February 6, 2012
Days after our mid-January tramp through Philadelphia’s Germantown cemeteries, I’m worshiping the Neti (pot) god, hoping the water doesn’t contain any parasitic brain-eating amoebas (see link at end). The frigid winter weather made my cold worse, in addition to freezing my fingertips off. But it was worth it. Two fellow cemetery travelers and I checked out […]
The Graves of Old Tampa Bay January 25, 2012
It’s so cold here in Philadelphia in mid-January that the veiled threat of snow makes me want to go to Florida for a while. So here we go. I was in Tampa a couple years ago, and spent some time in its quaint downtown Oaklawn Cemetery. If you think Florida has been northernized by all the tourists and retirees, a quick look at some of the gravestones will rem […]
What to Do with those Broken Old Tombstones? January 14, 2012
I heard something rather shocking the other day from the owner of a farmhouse near an old graveyard in rural Leeds, Maryland. It had to do with old broken tombstones. But just to keep you on edge for a bit, here’s the lead-in to the story. Rural graveyards can be quite small and are difficult to locate. Even with a map, you’ll drive right past them. As I at […]