The good news: A UVA study says that 51% of Charlottesvillians are psychic. The bad news: That’s according to the Weekly World News. #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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These university programs were started in the Cold War, believe it or not, to counter anything “psychic” the USSR might come up with. UVa was not the only place to take the funding and hire staff.
Amusing article, and I’d love to see the actual survey they took. I’m going to make a psychic prediction that this is coming from the Division of Perceptual Studies at UVa?
Now, if 50% of us were psychic, don’t you think we’d know by now? And have some really great evidence all around? Not to mention, life might be a bit boring and predictable.
Great title, btw :-)
Just to be clear, Weekly World News is a tabloid. They make stories up. As a joke. You know, “Elvis is Alive,” “Aliens Abduct President,” etc.
You mean, “various types of extrasensory perception (such as telepathy), apparitions and deathbed visions (sometimes referred to as after-death communications or ADCs), poltergeists, experiences of persons who come close to death and survive (usually called near-death experiences or NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and claimed memories of previous lives” ?
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/we_are.cfm#history
Also, Raymond Moody’s bestseller on near death experiences, “Life after Life”, was a big deal here in the 1970s. I thought he had some association with UVa, but Wikipedia says he just got his PhD here in 1969 and moved on.
goes to show that if you lower the bar enough, half the people can get over it. I just know it!
You know, “Elvis is Alive,”
?!?
Actually this study was done in the mid-1970s by Dr. John Palmer who was then at UVA and published in 1979 in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. So the percentage is more than 30 years out of date. So much for up-to-the-minute reporting!