You know how some folks just get near a PC and it goes haywire while others walk up to it and it seems to work fine after having had problems? Well, some folks think that people might just be sending out bad vibes!! Read on and click the link for the full story!
Here is the official website of the Princeton Pear Lab I've been following them for years, I think since This 1995 article from Wired Magazine and still can't find anybody who finds legitimate fault with the methodology. Of course, it's also supporting fodder for every nut who wants to prove telepathy, or ESP or whatever, but the work seems real enough.
I'm not sure if I qualify, I have personally pronounced death for the following: 1 lap top hard drive 1 lap top 1 rio mp3 player 1 nomad jukebox mp3 player 2 ipod batteries 1 LCD HD TV Lost 27 page Term Paper on Mac Disk (luckily had hard copy) Lost 526 page novel on diskette (luckily had hard copy) In Science I had equally traumautic events: Water pressure break in lab (a literal flood of entire lab) Had a liquid Nitrogen container break and apill through lab (Think T-2) Lost 3 months worth of scientiofic data to a freak tornado in NCAA meltdown in autoclave (about a 5 day cleanup)