Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2013

Mindtaking!

Per the BBC:
Turkey: Telepathy 'linked to deaths'
That's one explanation of the deaths of four workers at the defence giant Aselsan contained in a report presented to the PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to reports. All four deaths, within the space of 14 months during 2006 and 2007, were initially recorded as suicides. The men had been undergoing psychological treatment before they died but doubts persisted from their sceptical families, reports newspaper Today's Zaman. And last year the Inspection Board of the Prime Ministry launched a fresh probe.
Included in its report was a study by a neuropsychologist, Nevzat Tarhan, who asks prosecutors not to disregard the possibility of telepathy causing severe distress and headaches in the victims, giving them a tendency to kill themselves, reports Hurriyet Daily News. Brainwaves could have been sent from 1.5km (just under a mile) away, Hurriyet quotes Tarhan as saying. The report apparently doesn't offer a clear answer as to whether the deaths were murder or suicide but it's been submitted to the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office for further investigation.

That's right.  Neuropsychologists confirm, telepaths cause headaches and "distress" from 1.5km away, causing people to kill themselves.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

In Case of Global Thermonuclear War...

Following up on my discussion of the Nukemap, a bit of history, courtesy of The Independent: Queen Elizabeth II wrote and gave the following speech in 1983 in the case of nuclear war.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Mapping Rome

I've given some thought to running a Roman campaign, but for various reasons, it's been a non-starter.  Courtesy of io9, I discovered Stanford's ORBIS project -- essentially mapping various methods of traveling, or as io9 refers to it: Google Maps for the Roman world.