Old Is The New New

Richard Lewontin on Carl Sagan and how to think about pseudoscience.

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Blog promoting the book Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. (Is it me or are subtitles getting longer?)

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A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.

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P.D. Smith, author of Doomsday Men, on mad scientists and the dream of the superweapon.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost tapped John Murray Spear to build an electrical messiah and save the world. Who was using who?

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The posthumous adventures of Benjamin Franklin.

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Takes one to know one? Declassified CIA files (via Wired) on various “cranks, nuts, and screwballs.”

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In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.

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Christine Garwood on the history of an infamous idea.

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Technology and democracy in the golden age of the American eccentric.

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