Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious

  " If you ask a question strongly enough, the universe cooperates and gives you information relevant to the question." -  John E. Mack OddsnEnds -  - Traces of psychedelics make you feel good, but so does placebo. Results of ‘self-blinding’ s tudy.  ScienceMag. - Mobile brain wave reader can detect the emotions of a Horse.  Science . - "Can we ask people questions that they could actually hear in their dreams that we could kind of have a more meaningful conversation?"  NPR . - Using a Dyson Sphere to bring the dead back to life.  "Humans can’t build a Dyson Sphere - yet - but the researchers say nanorobots could one day do the job." ( On the other hand, a body isn't required for immortality .) PopMech - Study: Social media users behave a lot like animals searching for food.  UPI - New Theory about the 2020 Monoliths: We're the Aliens.  NYTimes . - 'Third quarter phenomenon' - First named in 1991 by researchers studying people living in c...

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan , The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man , The Mechanical Bride , Marshall McLuhan Estate How did I get to the above info? Twitter : I follow Callum Cooper , Telephone Calls from the Dead/ Amazon , and did a quick search to follow his latest activities.  That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source . Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear . Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes , detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues - Example : In " Understanding Media ," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, ...