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5 March 2021:
Added Mindfield Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields, from Volume 11, Issue 3, to Publication Search. (Note that the Parapsychological Association has kindly given permission for these lists to be included here for issues published more than a year ago.)
5 March 2021:
Recent items of interest online:
- Book:
- Preprint:
- Periodical:
- Volume 12, Issue 3 of the Parapsychological Association's Mindfield bulletin is now available to members online
- Articles in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Book review:
1 March 2021:
Added one PsyArXiv preprint from February 2021 to Publication Search.
26 February 2021:
Added a study registration at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit Study Registry, to Publication Search:
12 February 2021:
Recent items of interest online:
- Preprint:
- Articles in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Videos:
- Online articles:
5 February 2021:
Added two study registrations at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit Study Registry, to Publication Search:
3 February 2021:
Added Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 84, number 4 (October 2020), to Publication Search.
2 February 2021:
Added three PsyArXiv preprints from January 2021 (all updates) to Publication Search.
30 January 2021:
Recent items of interest online:
15 January 2021:
Recent items of interest online:
- Preprint:
- Periodical:
- Articles in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Videos:
- Blog post:
- Greg Taylor, in The Twilight Zone Has Been Flooded with Shit, appeals for scepticism and responsibility in studying "fringe" topics, and quotes Voltaire's warning, "those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities" (Daily Grail)
1 January 2021:
Added Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, volume 20, number 3 (2020), to Publication Search. Also added two PsyArXiv preprints from December 2020 (one updated and one new).
25 December 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
- Periodicals:
- Number 44 of the Society for Scientific Exploration's online magazine EdgeScience is now available online. This is a special issue featuring an article entitled "Sentient Plants: A Product of Nature or Human Imagination?" by Krissy Eliot
- Articles in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Blog posts:
- Carlos S. Alvarado has published a post listing Some Online General Books About Psychical Research, including four from the 1950s and others from the 1920s and earlier
- Ben Goertzel, in a post entitled Sand Talk, Singularity and Psi, shares some thoughts raised by the book "Sand Talk" by Tyson Yunkaporta. The goal of the book is to "present and analyze modern civilization society from the perspective of Aboriginal indigenous society", and Goertzel views it as a "must read" and avidly recommends it
25 December 2020:
Added Journal of Scientific Exploration, volume 34, number 4 (2020), to Publication Search.
12 December 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
- Periodicals:
- Numbers 95 and 96 of the SPR's Paranormal Review are now available to members online, with publicly accessible lists of contents
- Volume 12, Issue 2 of the Parapsychological Association's Mindfield bulletin is now available to members online
- Article in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Book review:
- Videos:
- Jeffrey Mishlove's New Thinking Aloud YouTube channel has hosted a Live Stream With Roger Nelson, in which he discusses his career and the Global Consciousness Project, including plans for a forthcoming "version 2.0" of the project
- A presentation entitled Parapsychology and Psychology: An Introduction by Carlos S. Alvarado, given as part of the ParaMOOC2020 online course, has been made available on the Parapsychology Foundation's YouTube channel
- News article:
9 December 2020:
Added Journal of Parapsychology, volume 84, number 2 (Fall 2020), to Publication Search. This issue includes an open-access article:
7 December 2020:
Added Mindfield Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields, from Volume 11, Issue 2, to Publication Search. (Note that the Parapsychological Association has kindly given permission for these lists to be included here for issues published more than a year ago.)
1 December 2020:
Added two PsyArXiv preprints from November 2020 to Publication Search.
28 November 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
- Published paper:
- Articles in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- Book reviews:
- Obituaries:
14 November 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
1 November 2020:
Added five PsyArXiv preprints from October 2020 (all revisions) to Publication Search.
31 October 2020:
Added Mindfield Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields to Publication Search. I am grateful to the Parapsychological Association for permission to include this material.
25 October 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
- Several new articles have been added to the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
- The prominent and controversial sceptic, James Randi, has died at the age of 92. At "The Skeptic", Chris French has posted an article entitled What James Randi meant to me. A somewhat different perspective comes from Nemo C. Mörck's 2015 review of the film "An Honest Liar" about Randi's life.
- At "New Thinking Allowed", Jeffrey Mishlove has interviewed Dani Caputi about New Random Event Strategies in Parapsychology, an approach to psychokinesis experiments that is claimed to offer larger effect sizes than traditional ones.
8 October 2020:
Recent items of interest online:
6 October 2020:
Added Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 84, number 3 (July 2020), to Publication Search.
2 October 2020:
Added one PsyArXiv preprint from September 2020 (a revision) to Publication Search.