I don't really have a guest suggestion but rather a show suggestion. I think Gene and Chris should do a "off-topic" episode where they discuss a lot of the topics that they allude to in the show. Things like politics and some current events. I think the Walter Bosley thread shows that there is...
First of all I would like to say that the guests that have been on recently, have been amazing... keep it up Paracast!!!
From listening to Mike's podcast, I always got the impression that he leaned more to the "love and light" interpretation of the phenomena. I think his views are actually more...
Strange Invaders (1983)
It is by no means a masterpiece but a lot of fun. If you like B-movies then you will love it. Basically aliens take over a town with the governments complicity.
What we don’t really have is a framework for evaluating the various claims. What exists now is a jumble of anecdotal evidence combined with various opinions. No methodical filters... that's the problem.
I believe that some UFO experiences are genuine and that there is a core phenomena at work here. However I disagree that it is reasonable to think that some of these single witness claims are genuine. This is especially problematic if hallucinations are more common than originally thought. At...
From a Scientific American article:
"A 2013 meta-analysis, combining much of the existing data, by Jim van Os of Maastricht University in the Netherlands and Richard Linscott of the University of Otago in New Zealand, found the prevalence of hallucinations and delusions in the general...
1. Since Stan is a nuclear physicist I was wondering what he thought of Dr. John Brandenburg's "Mars was nuked" hypothesis? Specifically I wonder what he thinks of the idea that the elevated levels of Xenon in the Mars atmosphere can only be explained by a nuclear bomb.
2. Does Stan give any...
I think there is something to this article but not for the reasons stated . A lot of classic experiments in psychology are being tested for reproducibility.
From : Psychologists strike a blow for reproducibility : Nature News & Comment
Also the Center for Open Science is discrediting a lot of...
All the software innovation is happening in the open source world where Linux is the de-facto OS standard. Apple/Google/MS etc... piggy-back on that innovation by taking ideas from Linux and repackaging them. You see this especially in the GUI. The area where these companies can actually do...
I knew that I came to the right place. I can't wait to watch these. Keep them coming....
I was reading about Phase IV on Wikipedia and noticed this: "This is the first film to depict a geometric crop circle, in this case created by super-intelligent ants. The film predates by two years the...
Nice !!!
It would be interesting to see what the minimum viable server is. Could you host it on a RasberryPi? Although I'm sure you don't want to experiment with that : )
Are forums also hosted on the Mac mini? It makes sense that the Mac mini would be per-formant as the pages are mostly static. The forum might be a little more taxing as there is slightly more processing going on. Also remember that the i7 and the Xeon are pretty much equivalent (assuming same...