– How to make your own Four Lokos. (HT to JPMITB).
– Via MetaEzra, the NY Times profile of No. 1 ranked Cornell wrestling.
– Football loses to Penn in the season finale.
– No. 1 Wrestling wins, hockey drops two more, and basketball splits two games.
– Ben Scrivens gets his first AHL win.
– Professor Kintner passes away at 64.
– More details on the death of Cornell grad student Ryan Crowder.
– Cornell Professor’s precognition paper.
– Robert Frank on soaring executive pay.
– More on the Dream Act.
– Ithaca SWAT jumps into action on Aurora Street.
It is hard to read any of that precognition paper and not feel like social “science” is a complete joke. His possible explanations for the phenomenon (which was detected when subjects were asked to guess the position of erotic images, but not benign images), are:
1. Precognition or retroactive influence;
2. Clairvoyance/remote viewing;
3. Psychokinesis;
4. Artifactual correlation.
Paging Dr. Peter Venkman… I find choice number five most probable: psychology is not immune to poor statistical analysis and/or experimental design (and maybe dumb luck).
If this passes the smell test, what conclusion can’t be cooked up and published in a respected social science journal?
Although I could be wrong. There are some really strange phenomena in quantum physics which defied any possible conventional explanations and to me seem like magic.