Archive for June, 2009

British scientist conducts world’s first experiment on Twitter

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Professor Richard Wiseman,  psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire and author of Quirkology, is today undertaking the first ever scientific experiment to be conducted using Twitter. The experiment is designed to test the existence of a psychic ability known as ‘remote viewing’ – the alleged ability to psychically identify a distant location. Prof Wiseman is pretty [...]

“Fame? I want to be a scientist!”

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Not my words, but those of the choreographer for Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity. If you’ve been in the UK at all in the past month you can’t help but have read about the Britain’s Got Talent TV show.  In this nationwide talent contest, people from all walks of life with talents ranging from the [...]