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Curr Biol
July 2019
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There are some strange tales in the history of Natural History, and few more so than the story of animal migration. It took centuries to work out some of the astonishing features of bird migration: now a new study of hoverflies points out some more that occur among the insects.
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Tromsø museum, University of Tromsø, PO Box 6050, Langnes, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway.
Background: In their quest to understand and interpret nature, people have frequently sought religious or divine origins for plant species and their characteristics. Less often, historical events or persons are involved. This study comprises eleven cases of the latter kind, all claiming that plant species have been introduced by foreigners or at least from foreign lands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurological and robot-controlled induction of an apparition.
Curr Biol
November 2014
Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 19, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 19, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Laboratory of Robotic Systems, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 17, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tales of ghosts, wraiths, and other apparitions have been reported in virtually all cultures. The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present and cannot be seen (feeling of a presence, FoP) is a fascinating feat of the human mind, and this apparition is often covered in the literature of divinity, occultism, and fiction. Although it is described by neurological and psychiatric patients and healthy individuals in different situations, it is not yet understood how the phenomenon is triggered by the brain.
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