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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.

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The psychology of Ouija

Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.

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Can isolation lead to manipulation?

Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.

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  • Electromagnet apparatus, c.1848
  • Electromagnet apparatus, circa 1848
  • A surgeon using an electrical device to externally track a hidden bullet inside a patient's body. Wood engraving, ca. 1890.
  • Electro-magnet devised by Aimé Auguste Cotton, in the Académie des Sciences, Paris. Photograph.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Electricity: seventeen figures showing apparatus related to galvanism, electro-magnetism, magneto-electricity and thermo-electricity. Engraving by J.W. Lowry, 1825/1840?.
  • Electricity and its industrial applications. Coloured engraving by Langevin, 1853, after L. Allard.
  • Thermogram of normal hand
  • Yoga practice illustrated with thermography
  • Yoga practice illustrated with thermography
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