Eckhard Kruse Develops Camera-Based Ouija Tracking System

Ouija boards have been used as a tool to allegedly communicate with non-physical beings for more than 100 years, but little research has been done to explore the nature of this mysterious phenomenon. In an article published in the June 30 issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Dr. Eckhard Kruse, an applied computer scientist at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Germany, presents a camera- and software-based system that can serve as a tool for Ouija research.

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Dr. Lance Storm Examines How Imagination and Reactance May Affect Psychic Performance

How might researchers positively and negatively influence performance on psi (or “psychic”) tasks such as clairvoyance and precognition? In a study recently published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Dr. Lance Storm of the University of Adelaide in South Australia explored this question.

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Dr. Fernando Alvarez Finds an Experimenter Psi Effect in Precognition Tests with Planarians

Since 2010, biologist Dr. Fernando Alvarez of Sevilla, Spain has been adapting the methods of presentiment research to the animal kingdom, looking first at the behavior in finches, and then in recent years, planarians (a type of flatworm). In the latest issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE), Dr. Alvarez took this research a step further by investigating how experimenter psi might influence the results of such studies.

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