New paper generates more noise than experimental thrust. By Chris Lee.

*And these people will tell you why. By Alexis Kleinman.

For decades, Ray Kurzweil has consistently been wrong about the future. But people still listen to him for some reason. By Matt Novak. (July 26, 2016)

“You’re not really sick, They’re poisoning you so you have to buy Their costly drugs to treat the symptoms They’ve caused because They’re also suppressing the cheap and easy natural remedes you probably already have in your kitchen cupboard! Credit card number?” By Spenser Davis.

Everyone has a threshold for New Age spirituality. At Spirit Weavers, a highly Instagrammable, sold-out women’s retreat, I hit mine.​ By Marisa Meltzer. (July 12, 2016)

The science of consciousness, far from converging on a sensible paradigm, is going backward. By John Horgan.

Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion? By Colin Dickey.

The magician delighted in exposing spiritualists as con men and frauds. By Edmund Wilson. (June 1925)

Actor and co-founder of festival says he ‘did not believe film contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.’ By Alan Yuhas.

Nancy Talbott claims to have unlocked crop circle science. Matt Williams is a crop circle maker encountering the paranormal in his circles. Why are they at odds? By Alex Tsakiris.

Breathwork was born out of LSD research in the 1960s, and suggests that by hyperventilating, you can experience the same feeling as an acid trip. By Conor Creighton.

In the 1970s, Ruth Norman became an author, UFO expert, and archangel, By Marie Lodi.

What a failed doomsday prophecy taught psychologists about the nature of belief. By Julie Beck. (Dec. 18)

It was to be a magical, enchanting month for us. Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, was moving into Virgo midmonth in alignment with the sun, where it would multiply the beneficence of the gassy planet and rain fortune down upon us. Mercury and Venus were in retrograde, complicating email and love, but a group of small planets was gathering in our sixth house of work and assignments and health...

Homebuilt machines, fringe science, and the everlasting human desire to make our wishes come true. By Andy Wright.

Is there room for all these Yetis, UFOs, and Yaktavians on one volcano? By Sarah Scoles

Tech and Silicon Valley Turn to Mystics for Advice. By Jeremy Lybarger.

Robin Ince takes listeners on a tour of a world beneath the earth's crust. [Audio]

Gambling downstairs, blood transfusions upstairs. The new owner of the Revel believes his casino can make you live to 100.

Meditation, like yoga before it, has been fully assimilated into corporate America. Several large companies offer their employees free meditation training. By Michelle Goldberg