psychology

Eerily, 25 per cent of the UK adult population – or around 11m people - have experienced a ghost, according to research by spectre expert Professor Richard Wiseman. It’s a statistic that will send a shiver down the spine of the nation, especially as paranormal experiences are on the...

A leading US psychologist has patented a bra for the bum, which according to her, restores pertness to sagging buttocks Creator Karin Hart claims that the garment, featuring straps worn around the waist and under the buttocks, instantly shapes and adds tone to the rear. Hart said that she...

Meet the Woman Who Eats Couch Cushions Compulsions drive people to do very strange and unusual things. But eating couch cushions? That may very well be the strangest yet. Adele, a 30-year-old woman from Bradenton, Fla., recently came forward on a TV show about her bizarre taste for foam...

Doomsday: After Many Predictions, We're Still Here "Repent, repent, the end is near!" Or is it? How many times have we heard that in movies, on TV, throughout literature and in the Bible? Yet, as often as people have predicted a global apocalypse, we're still here, still intact. You've...

Link Removed Ibn al-Haytham's 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton's Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very little is known about the writer, considered by many to be the father of modern optics...

Link Removed - Invalid URL 1 Avoid smearing yourself in stale breadcrumbs unless absolutely necessary. 2 If threatened by a duck, climb a tree. Ducks, usually excellent climbers, refuse to share trees with anything else. 3 Carry a large automatic weapon with you whenever walking...

Link Removed June 30, 2008 Link Removed An 11-year-old "werewolf" boy who desperately seeks a cure for his condition is baffling medical experts. Pruthviraj Patil is one of 50 in the world who suffers from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition known as Werewolf Syndrome. As...