detectors

At my parents' house, there was a smoke detector in the living room. If you burnt toast or bacon in the kitchen (two rooms away), the alarm would go off. And quite rightly, too. In the last house I lived in, there was one in the living room (one room from the kitchen) that went off every time...

AP story I understand that the guy was playing on people's sympathy towards other Christians, but I can't really grasp how people invested their entire savings in a scheme that promised a 4000% return. I mean Charles Ponzi offered only a 1500% return (double your money every 90 days). Four...

Brain Scan Shows Differences in Truth, Lying Do you think this sounds any more plausible than measuring heart rate, breathing rate, skin resistance and all that other stuff as done in 'traditional' lie detectors? Sounds like there is still an awful lot of interpreting to reach a conclusion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3743448.stm Can they tell when mediums and psychics are lying, I wonder?

I've just emailed Randi about this, and I'm sure you all will want to know about it too. Our Home Secretary (in Britain, the Home Secretary deals with much of criminal justice, immigration, the police, court system etc.), David Blunkett, is hoping to introduce polygraph testing for managing sex...