Spook science tackles the afterlife
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton and Co.,
c2005.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation
- The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels
- How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale
- The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul
- Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm
- The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab
- Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school
- Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead
- Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate?
- Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots
- Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness
- Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers.
