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  • Freud and The World’s First Documented "That’s What She Said"

    So I was reading Freud’s book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis because I had a particularly vexing question about the practice of psychology and went straight to the best source of information. Just kidding! Freud ruined psychology. More like Sigmund Fraud! HAH! But for serious, I rescued the book from my parents’ garage sale, and…

  • It’s Almost Like ESP, Day 2

    Once again, I took part in Richard Wiseman’s fun but flawed Twitter remote viewing study. Here’s what I tweeted when he said he was at the location: Here is what I drew (rotated to disingenuously enhance appearance of psychic ability): And here is where Richard turned out to be: Once again proving that I’m totally…

  • It’s Almost Like ESP

    Popular psychologist Richard Wiseman is currently conducting a unique study that uses Twitter to gather research participants. He’s seeing if his Twitter followers can engage in remote viewing to detect where Richard is located (explanation here). So the idea is that Richard goes to a randomly chosen location, then asks people on Twitter to use…