Tales of the paranormal

It’s a scary thought. What if telepathy is real, and we can read each other’s minds? And what if the paranormal is a genuine artefact of our fabulously complex brains rather than statistical hogwash or fraud? Will Robert Morris be the man to find out? For 15 years he’s run the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh, one of a handful of centres dedicated to studying the paranormal. This lab is best known for the Ganzfeld experiment, run since the early 1990s and the result of years of negotiations between researchers and sceptics to devise a watertight test of so-called psychic phenomena. The…