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Air Force Report Calls For Study of Psychic Teleportation

Star Trek fans may be happy to
hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation.
But scientists aren't so thrilled.
The Air Force Research Lab's August "Teleportation Physics Report,"
posted earlier this week on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Web site, struck a raw nerve with physicists and critics of wasteful
military spending.
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving
yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real
and can be controlled." The 88-page report also reviews a range of
teleportation concepts and experiments:
??? Quantum teleportation, a technique demonstrated in the last decade
that shifts the characteristics, but not the location, of sub-atomic
particles at great distances.
??? Wormholes, a highly theoretical possibility whereby the intense
gravitational field near black holes could rip open entrances to distant
locales.
??? Psychokinesis, or psychic teleportation. In support of the idea, the
report cites UFO reports, Soviet and Chinese studies of psychics and
U.S. military studies of spoon-bending phenomena.
"It is in large part crackpot physics," says physicist Lawrence Krauss
of Case Western Reserve University, author of The Physics of Star Trek,
a book detailing the physical limits that prevent teleportation. He
describes the Air Force report as "some things adapted from reasonable
theoretical studies, and other things from nonsensical ones."
Some experts have long criticized what they see as a military sweet
tooth for junk science. A "remote viewing" project, for example,
undertaken by defense intelligence services and declassified in 1994,
sought to see whether psychic powers could be employed to spy on the
Soviet Union. The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific
quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says.
Davis, a physicist with Warp Drive Metrics of Las Vegas, couldn't be
reached for comment. The Air Force paid $25,000 for the report, part of
a $20.5 million advanced rocket and missile design contract. The report
calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments.
"The views expressed in the report are those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect the official policy of the Air Force, the Department
of Defense or the U.S. Government," says an Air Force Research Lab
(AFRL) statement sent to Conspiracy Journal. "There are no plans by the
AFRL Propulsion Directorate for additional funding on this contract."
Explaining why the lab sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman Ranney Adams
said, "If we don't turn over stones, we don't know if we have missed
something."
Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-05-teleportation_x.htm
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IS IT HOT IN HERE OR WHAT DEPARTMENT -
Arctic Melting Faster Than
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Not only has it moved beyond the realm of science fiction, but the
Arctic ice cap's melting has been much faster than anyone has suspected.
That is one of the important conclusions of a report published
yesterday at the behest of the Arctic Council, a forum composed of eight
nations with Arctic territories, including the United States.
Yet the report, produced over four years by several hundred scientists,
government officials and indigenous groups, is not sensational or
alarmist. It simply compiles the data, noting that because of long-term
global warming, average winter temperatures in Alaska, western Canada
and eastern Russia have increased by as much as seven degrees over the
past 50 years. If the trend continues, about half of the Arctic sea ice
is projected to melt by the end of this century.
The report describes some of the possible environmental effects of this
change. Many northern animal species, including polar bears and seals,
are likely to become extinct. Vegetation and animal migration patterns
around the world will shift. Low-lying parts of the world, including
Florida and coastal Louisiana, are likely to experience serious
flooding. But although the report's scientific conclusions will be the
subject of an international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, this week,
the authors intentionally do not offer specific recommendations,
political or environmental, on how to halt or cope with these changes.
Such recommendations are supposed to come from diplomats and indigenous
representatives who will also be meeting at the Reykjavik summit,
however. And already, these are the subject of controversy: Some
participants have accused the Bush administration of resisting a mild
endorsement of the report and of rejecting even vague language
suggesting that greenhouse gas reduction might be part of the solution.
Given the thorough nature of this report, and given that the election
is now over, that would be inexcusable. At the very least, we hope that
the final language reflects a practical, commonsensical and
depoliticized approach to what will certainly be one of the most
pressing environmental issues of the next half-century.
Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35441-2004Nov8.html?sub=AR
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STILL UNEXPLAINED DEPARTMENT -
Pilot's Estate Files
Lawsuit in Unexplained 2003 Air Crash
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Two years after Tommy
Preziose's plane plunged 3,000 feet out of the dusk into the
Mobile-Tensaw Delta, federal investigators still can't say whether it
broke apart on impact with the marsh or whether something slammed into
it before it ever hit the ground.
The eerie details of Preziose's final moments remain an enigma and a
source of contention within the National Transportation Safety Board and
have sparked a $76 million wrongful death lawsuit against the federal
government.
In an uprecedented finding, Butch Wilson, the veteran NTSB investigator
originally assigned to the case, said in a preliminary report released
in April that the plane collided with an unknown object in mid-air. NTSB
supervisors in Washington, D.C., called Wilson's conclusion premature
and began their own investigation, which hasn't wrapped up.
One possible cause of the Oct. 23, 2003, crash that both Wilson and the
other NTSB officials ruled out was precisely the one posed in the
lawsuit, which was filed Oct. 25 in federal court in Mobile. Lawyers for
Preziose's estate claim air traffic controllers steered him into the
tornado-like wake of a FedEx DC-10.
A document accompanying the lawsuit accuses Federal Aviation
Administration employees of failing "to provide adequate vertical as
well as horizontal separatioclearance from the 'heavy DC-10.'" They also
did not issue "the required warnings to Mr. Preziose of the clear and
present danger of the wake turbulence he would experience," the document
claims.
Wilson's report, however, noted that the DC-10 was flying 1,000 feet
higher than Preziose's Cessna 208B Cargomaster. Moreover, the report
said, the two planes never crossed paths. The northeast-bound Cessna
would have had to have been behind the southbound DC-10 at some point to
have been battered by the disturbed air left by the larger plane.
"Radar data shows that the C-208 was not in a position to encounter the
wake turbulence from nearby DC-10," an NTSB update declared in June.
Making a mystery:
While the preliminary report ruled out wake turbulence, it touched off
a mystery by concluding the Cessna collided with something in mid-air.
Wilson, who is based in Atlanta, had the Air Force conduct tests to
identify possible sources of nearly three dozen red polymer smears found
on the outside of the fuselage. Those marks formed a large part of the
theory that helped make this one of the stranger investigations in the
agency's annals.
Wilson had the marks tested against a swatch of red fabric from inside
the plane, a piece of a red cargo bag, even a military drone. Nothing
matched. Ultimately, the markings and the severe damage to the plane's
engine helped convince him something struck the plane, his report
indicated.
No confirmed wreckage from any other plane has been found and no other
planes were reported missing at the time. Members of the search crews
who retrieved the relatively few large pieces of the plane said it could
not have come down in a softer spot -- two or three feet of water atop 8
to 10 feet of "puff mud."
Nevertheless, Doug Hardy, an investigator for Pratt & Whitney who
examined the wreckage, said recently that the engine block appeared to
have slammed into something solid.
"It hit something hard," he said, "because the engine was split. It
actually came apart."
There was no evidence that the engine failed, he said.
Wreckage reclaimed:
By the time Wilson's account was posted, the wreckage had been turned
over to the United States Aircraft Insurance Group. After the Mobile
Register reported Wilson's findings, NTSB higher-ups took the unusual
step of reclaiming the plane's remains and having it sent to the
agency's academy in Ashburn, Va., for further review. Keith Holloway, an
NTSB spokesman, said last week that investigators have completed
computer simulations of the crash. The agency is waiting on the chemical
analysis of samples from some 20 possible sources of the red marks, he
said.
Wilson had been unable to identify the source of a chunk of black metal
embedded in one of the Cessna's wings. Investigators have since decided
it came from inside the cockpit.
Wilson's supervisors haven't disavowed his assessment -- a mid-air
collision. The problem they have with it, according to Holloway, was
that they felt it came too soon.
"That's a statement that is a conclusion," he said, "and we aren't at a
point in this investigation to make any type of conclusion."
Wilson declined to discuss the case in detail.
Preziose, a 54-year-old who lived in Mobile, was an experienced pilot
familiar with the plane and the area. No one has suggested that the
mildly overcast skies were a factor, and the plane had passed a routine
maintenance check days earlier.
Flying for DHL Worldwide Express with the call sign Night Ship 282,
Preziose took off from Mobile Downtown Airport at Brookley with 420
pounds of business letters. Air traffic control recordings and radar
data indicated his ascent to his cruising altitude of 3,000 feet was
uneventful.
'I need to deviate':
Around 7:45 p.m., Wilson's report states, Preziose had the second of
two exchanges with an air traffic controller about the location of the
DC-10, acknowledging he saw it above him and more than a mile away.
Seconds later, he burst on the radio repeating, "I needed to deviate."
The transmission cut off when he was saying it a fourth time, right
about the time the plane vanished from radar.
Preziose's sister, Moira Wade, is also a pilot and has visited the
crash site numerous times collecting debris from the plane. She thinks
her brother knew he would not survive and that his last words were meant
to give investigators a clue to what happened, that he had to make an
emergency maneuver to avoid something.
The lawsuit suggests Preziose's words were a correction to the air
traffic controllers, that they should have sent him on a different
flight path. NTSB officials have not publicly addressed the significance
of the words.
Preziose's remains were found amid the wreckage in Big Bateau Bay in
the W.L. Holland Wildlife Management Area, a locale popular with hunters
seeking ducks and boar. The spot is near Spanish Fort and about a mile
north of the Causeway.
Documents filed in Mobile County Circuit Court last fall on behalf of
Preziose's estate named FedEx and Cessna as potential defendants, though
the estate's lawyers apparently backed off that course. Greg Breedlove,
one of the lawyers for the estate, downplayed the significance of the
red marks.
"We believe that the markings were already on the plane before the
accident," perhaps from the Cessna being grazed by airport ground
equipment, he said last month.
Lawyers for the FAA had not filed a response to the lawsuit as of
Wednesday.
Holloway offered no timetable for the final report. Investigators have
been stretched particularly thin lately, he said. It was only last week
that the agency issued its report on the Nov. 12, 2001, crash of
American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 265 people in the New York
City borough of Queens. And investigators also haven't released their
findings on the April 24, 2003, crash at Brookley that killed pilot
Marvin T. Anderson, 44, of Atlanta.
As for what happened to Night Ship 282, "It's gonna be a while before
we have a conclusion on this investigation," Holloway said.
Source: Mobile Register
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1099822565151290.xml
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SECRETS OF THE MIND REVEALED DEPARTMENT -
Mind control: The Zombie
Effect
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Methods of latent impact on the
human psyche are no longer secret.
Academician Igor Smirnov of the Russian Academy of Sciences is often
referred to as a father of psychotropic weapons. At the age of 28, he
became the head of a laboratory in Russia"s 1st Medical Institute.
He is the author of numerous sensational discoveries. Back then, he was
faced with a task to "create" human-geniuses, who would be capable of
becoming great scientists, magnificent inventors.
Smirnov main goal was to make those people use the reserves of their
own psyche. His first top-secret experiment in psycho-reconnaissance was
carried out in 1984. Professor Smirnov possesses several dozens patents
on various inventions. Nowadays, staff researchers of Russia's
Scientific Research Institute continue to conduct in-depth studies of
human psyche under Dr. Smirnov"s direct guidance.
Methods of latent impact on the human psyche are no longer secret.
"I allow for the possibility that perpetrators can and do use such
methods to manipulate one"s conscious for the purpose of creating
terrorists-kamikazes," stated Dr. Smirnov in his interview to MK.
Professor Igor Smirnov was in fact the world"s first man to get into the
human mind by means of a computer.
Back then, society was completely unaware of the so-called Shakhids.
Now, the most logical comes to mind: what triggers a person to commit
such act of violence? How come the instinct of self-preservation fails
to block one"s inner urge to destroy oneself? This was the main topic of
my discussion with Dr. Smirnov.
-How is it possible to erase one's memory?
-There exists an entire array of possible methods. Majority of them are
psychochemical. Electroshock can also have the same effect on a person.
However, nothing works better than the so-called semantic influence,
when a person is given certain orders that he then executes without
hesitation. Personally, I wouldn"t want to go into details on such
matters. As a result of such "outside influence", a person"s "self" gets
totally blocked. Instead, another "self" is being created. That second
identity in turn can have a number of various programmed urges, such as
killing oneself.
-Are there many people in our country capable of carrying out such
procedures?
-I can"t say for sure. Obviously, the knowledge acquired at school is
not enough to carry out such experiments. I think the amount of such
specialists is rather limited.
-Do you think you could restore people"s memory?
-This is a very hard procedure. Thing is, those people will have
difficult time recollecting that lost time fragment that had been torn
out of their lives. We did manage to help several our patients to regain
their memory partially.
How to "cure" one"s mind
Many still remain rather doubtful about the fact that it is possible to
affect one"s behavior while surpassing his conscious. In reality
however, people have been doing this for a hundred years already.
-As far as I know, we are the first in this field of research.
-Interesting as it may seem, but you are right. Similar methods have
been born in Russia and American almost simultaneously; in Russia
however, they emerged 9 months earlier. Our department at the institute
was in fact the first in the world. American laboratory in Michigan
however is our main rival nowadays. In 1993, Americans established a
company especially for me; I am currently its board member. Due to my
presumptions however, I refused to stay there for good. Many of my
colleagues have immigrated a long time ago and now lead pretty
comfortable lives there. Unfortunately, our inventions are not in high
demand in Russia.
-Is it possible to defeat terrorism?
-Only informational war is capable of defeating terrorism completely.
And we possess this weapon. Peoples" actions can in fact be controlled
by unnoticed acoustic influence. Look-it"s easy. All I have to do is
record my voice, apply special coding, which converts my voice to mere
noise and afterwards, all we have to do is record some music on top of
that. The words are indistinguishable to your conscious; however, your
unconscious can hear them clearly. If we were to play this music over
and over again on the radio for instance, people will soon start
developing paranoia. This is the simplest weapon.
An image can also be coded. After 12-14 minutes the information begins
to get into one"s conscious. Our department is the only one in the world
that possesses such instrument of informational war. However, no one
seems to be interested in it.
-Several years ago you were trying to lobby a law that would protect
people from unendorsed interventions into one man"s psyche. Where is
this bill now?
-Mr. Lopatin from the Security Committee used to work on the bill
concerning informational-psychological security back in 2000. However,
he is no longer a delegate; and the law is nonexistent. Russians remain
unprotected from such concealed message that could be "hiding" in the
media. There is no state control over the works in psychotechnologies
whatsoever. In the meantime, USA approaches this subject much better.
More than 140 universities conduct thorough research in this area.
Source: Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/14567_.html
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NEW BRANCHES ON THE FAMILY TREE DEPARTMENT -
Miniature People Add Extra
Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle
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The miniature people found to
have lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 13,000 years ago may
well appeal to the imagination. Even their Australian discoverers refer
to them with fanciful names. But the little Floresians have created
something of a headache for paleoanthropologists.
The Floresians, whose existence was reported late last month, have
shaken up existing views of the human past for three reasons: they are
so recent, so small and apparently so smart. None of these findings fits
easily into current accounts of human evolution.
The textbooks describe an increase in human brain size that parallels
an increasing sophistication in stone tools. Our close cousins the
chimpanzees have brains one third the size of ours, as do the
Australopithecines, the apelike human ancestors who evolved after the
split from the joint human-chimp ancestor six or seven million years
ago. But the Australopithecines left no stone tools, and chimps, though
they use natural stones to smash things, have no comprehension of
fashioning a stone for a specific task.
The little Floresians seem to have made sophisticated stone tools yet
did so with brains of 380 cubic centimeters, about the same size as the
chimp and Australopithecine brains. This is a thumb in the eye for the
tidy textbook explanations that link sophisticated technology with
increasing human brain size.
The Australian and Indonesian researchers who found the Floresian bones
have an explanation that raises almost as many questions as it resolves.
They say the Floresians, who stood three and a half feet high, are
downsized versions of Homo erectus, the archaic humans who left Africa
1.5 million years before modern humans. But some critics think the small
people may have descended from modern humans - Homo sapiens.
Homo erectus had arrived on the remote island of Flores by 840,000
years ago, according to earlier findings by Dr. Mike Morwood, the
Australian archaeologist on the team. The species then became subject to
the strange evolutionary pressures that affect island species. If there
are no predators and little food, large animals are better off being
small. Homo erectus was sharply downsized, as was the pygmy elephant the
little Floresians hunted.
But the Morwood theory is not universally accepted. Homo erectus is
known to have made crude stone tools but is not generally thought to
have spoken or been able to build boats.
Maybe Dr. Morwood's alleged stone tools were just natural pieces of
rock. "Many researchers (myself included) doubted these claims," writes
Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in
London, adding that "nothing could have prepared me" for the surprise of
the little Floresians.
It is surprising enough that Homo erectus managed to reach Flores. But
not only have the Floresians evolved to be much more advanced than their
ancestors ever were, as judged by the stone tools, but they did so at
the same time that their brain was being reduced to one-third human
size. Getting smaller brained and smarter at the same time is the exact
reverse of the textbook progression.
The Floresians' other surprise lies in the time of their flourishing.
The skeleton described in Nature lived as recently as 18,000 years ago,
but Dr. Morwood said that in the most recent digging season he found six
other individuals whose dates range from 95,000 to 13,000 years ago.
Modern humans from Africa arrived in the Far East some time after 50,000
years ago and had reached Australia by at least 40,000 years ago.
There has been little evidence until now that Homo erectus long
survived its younger cousins' arrival in the region. Modern humans
probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals
in Europe. Yet the little Floresians survived some 30,000 years into
modern times, the only archaic human species known to have done so.
All these surprises raise an alternative explanation. What if the
Floresians are descended from modern humans, not from Homo erectus?
Source: NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/science/09tiny.html?oref=login&oref=login
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GETTING A SENSE OF DEJA VU DEPARTMENT -
Getting A Sense Of Deja
Vu
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Few of us will ever see a ghost. Most will not have an out-of-body
experience, or communicate telepathically, or foretell the future. But
the majority of Americans at one time or another will experience the
eerie, almost otherworldly sense of dislocation known as deja vu.
Literally the phrase means "already seen." It's that uncanny feeling
that you've been in a place before, or dreamed that you've been in a
place, even though you know for a fact you've never been there, that
you're seeing it for the first time in your life.
You're walking into a room or down a city street and suddenly an
overwhelming sensation of familiarity washes over you ??“ and, as
suddenly, vanishes: This is not the sort of thing scientists can drag
into the lab and put under the microscope.
But Dr. Alan J. Brown, a Southern Methodist University psychologist, is
trying to capture that elusive experience through a series of
experiments ??“ to catch the mind in the act, so to speak. Dr. Brown is
author of The Déjà vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive
Psychology (Psychology Press, $56.50), the first book-length scientific
study of the phenomenon since the 1980s. (The opposite sensation, jamais
vu, is interesting, too, he says. It's the feeling we sometimes get when
a familiar place suddenly feels utterly strange, like we've never seen
it before.)
"Déjà vu hasn't received much attention," he says.
"There's been a lot of speculation but not much empirical work. It gets
all mixed up with parapsychology," the study of extrasensory perception
and other psychic phenomena. But you don't have to be psychic to
experience déjà vu. It's a fairly ordinary, though rare,
occurrence, Dr. Brown says, "and we don't know how to trigger it."
If you can't trigger the occurrence itself, perhaps you can try to
trigger something like it. And so during the summer, students from Dr.
Brown's introduction to psychology classes and from a class at Duke
University volunteered a few hours at a time to an experiment in memory
and perception.
Dr. Brown, a 31-year member of the SMU faculty, likes to study fleeting
and elusive mental phenomena, "areas on the fringe of perception and
cognition," he says. "I like to pull in the areas we're not studying, on
the fringe of science.
"I also like to stay with these experiences people can relate to,
rather than something that can be understood only by a few colleagues."
For example, he is also studying retrieval inhibition, the mental
mechanism that allows us to repress or forget old, unneeded information.
He has done research on why words sometimes dangle on the tip of the
tongue, tantalizingly out of reach, and why computer passwords are so
hard to remember. He also has studied inadvertent plagiarism, that
dreaded experience in which a writer thinks he is putting his own words
on paper but is really writing something he's read somewhere.
Déjà vu seemed a little like these phenomena, both
familiar and strange. So in the 1990s Dr. Brown set out to learn as much
about the experience as possible. "I did a questionnaire asking how many
people have had it. What were the circumstances? Did it involve other
people?" He also ransacked the scientific literature on the subject.
He learned that about two-thirds of individuals have experienced
déjà vu at least once. People who travel frequently or are
better educated are more likely to experience déjà vu. So
are political liberals, people who readily recall their dreams, and
those with certain types of epilepsy. As people age they seem to have
the experience less often.
Why liberals? Are they yearning for elections past? "Maybe because
they're open to different types of experience," Dr. Brown surmises,
"experiences outside the mainstream."
Déjà vu commonly involves a place or a scene that seems
familiar. "Setting seems to be a key element to all déjà
vu experiences," he says. "There are a couple of explanations for this
that could be tested with the right equipment and circumstances."
To test the role of memory in producing déjà vu
experiences, Dr. Brown worked for six months with Dr. Elizabeth J.
Marsh, a Duke University psychologist who studies memory and who became
interested in déjà vu after reviewing his book manuscript.
The two are running the experiment on their respective campuses and will
get together afterward to review results and perhaps tweak the process
for another round.
"It's turned into a nice collaboration," says Dr. Marsh. "We've done a
couple different rounds of the experiment now." Preliminary results have
been interesting, she says, but they need to be replicated before
scientists can put much confidence in them.
The SMU-Duke experiment draws on two groups of volunteers, one at each
campus. The lab setting is bare bones: a small room with a computer
screen, a table and a chair. Dr. Brown's research assistant, Sandy
Zoccoli, a doctoral candidate in the psychology department, monitors the
tests.
The volunteers seem as curious about the outcome as the experimenters,
Ms. Zoccoli says.
"They ask a lot of questions. They come in wanting to know what we're
going to do, why we're going to do it and what we're trying to find out."
She can't tell them, of course. If she did that, it wouldn't be an
experiment.
Still, one young recent test subject was persistent. "If I come back
afterward," she bubbled, "will you tell me?"
The setup is deceptively simple. Each volunteer sits at the table and
views a series of photographs flashed on the screen. Some show scenes of
the SMU campus, some show scenes at Duke, and the rest depict views of
city streets and pleasant scenery. The location of the picture isn't
important at this stage, Dr. Brown says. The volunteer is simply asked
to find a small cross superimposed over each picture and to press a key
to designate its location.
The second part of the experiment comes a week later. The volunteer
returns to view another series of pictures on the computer screen. Some
are the same pictures used in the first test, others are not. This time
the volunteer is asked, "Have you been in this place?" and given four
choices to rate the likelihood, from certainty to doubt.
The idea, says Dr. Brown, is that the subject may see a picture
presented in the first go around, not recognize it, but feel "an
inordinate feeling of familiarity." The subject may even think he or she
has been there without being able to pinpoint when or under what
circumstances.
"We've found we can elicit a strong sense of familiarity," he says. But
so far, no full-blown déjà vu. "That's probably as close
as we can get in the lab," he says. "As in any real-world situation, the
sensation is different.
"We're peeling away the layers, like an onion."
One surprise, which needs further testing, says Dr. Marsh: "The more
unique-looking places produce the stronger results. That's the opposite
of what we expected."
Dr. Brown and his Duke colleague will meet soon to peel away some more
layers, discuss how things went and possibly make some changes or
adjustments. "We may wait three weeks instead of one between the two
parts of the experiment," he says.
Other experiments will be designed to follow up the results ??“ or
non-results ??“ of this test. "We're wondering what strengthening exposure
to a scene might do," he says.
The publication of his book has generated a lot of chatter over the
Internet among professionals and nonprofessionals alike. Dr. Brown says
he's getting e-mail, much of it from nonscientists warning him that he's
poking around in mystical territory and that he'll never catch his
quarry.
Why study a subject as elusive as déjà vu?
"The practical part of this is, it's a phenomenon people experience,"
he says. "How can it be applied? I really don't know. Why does
déjà vu decline with age? You'd expect just the opposite.
What does that say about aging and memory?
"The gold nugget if we can figure that out."
Source: The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/texasliving/stories/110804dnlivdejavu.
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A mysterious skin disease is surfacing in Austin called Morgellons.
It's a parasite-like disease that makes people feel like they have bugs
crawling under their skin. The condition is a medical mystery. So, more
often then not, it's diagnosed as a psychological disorder. That's where
some patients say their troubles begin.
"When you lay down, as soon as your head hits the pillow, your hair
starts crawling," says Becky Bailey.
"It gives you the sensation that you have worms under your skin or rats
crawling on you," says Miles Lawrence.
These two people suffer from the rare skin disease called Morgellons.
"We really don't know what it is," says Ginger Savely.
But nurse practitioner Ginger Savely says she's seeing more patients in
her clinic with the symptoms, like painful skin ulcers that spring blue
fibers, white threads, and little black specks of sand-like material.
"Talking about it just sounds crazy but there are just a lot of things
that come out of their skin," says Savely.
"It's very, very odd what's happening to these people. They have little
blue fibers, and black specks and white threads coming out of their
skins," Morgellons & Lyme Disease Expert Ginger Savely said.
But that's literally just the tip of what's bugging these people. Under
the skin, those fibers are connected to what appears to be a cluster of
fibers or in some instances, parasitic looking organisms. Oh, and did we
mention they don't stay still?
"It's movement. It's actually moving, it's almost like they're
intertwined with your muscle tissue," Morgellons patient Eric Roberson
said.
Doctors don't know what causes Morgellons, but Savely may have found a
clue.
"About 10 percent of my patients with chronic Lyme disease have
symptoms of this Morgellons," says Savely.
Savely specializes in Lyme Disease. She says people with the tick-borne
disease have weaker immune systems and may be more vulnerable to the
infection.
But health experts don't know for sure. One reason is there hasn't been
much research on Morgellon's -- federally or by the Texas Department of
Health.
That's because the disease isn't recognized as an official disease.
Without that distinction, research doesn't get federal or state funding.
Because so little is known about the disease, 28-year-old Miles
Lawrence had a difficult time getting doctors to take him seriously.
"They'll look at you funny. They give you this instant judgement, like
'OK, You're on drugs. You're seeing things,'" says Miles.
That's why 41-year-old Becky Bailey says she's living a nightmare.
"I knock myself out every night with drugs so I can sleep," says Becky.
So far Miles and Becky's only relief is one nurse practitioner, Ginger
Savely, who listens.
"This is real and something that needs to be recognized and treated,"
says Miles.
"Not to turn away a patient that has symptoms like we're describing
because you may send them home to their deaths," says Becky.
There are 1,100 hundred known cases in the U.S. Most of them are in
Texas, California and Florida. Doctors are trying to find out why. For
more information on Morgellons, go to the Morgellons Research Foundation
at www.morgellons.org.
Source: KVUE.com
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/110904kvueHealth-eh.3f4d4cc0.html
Photo Courtesy: http://morgellons.org/
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