9 - Love Spells are a Hard No

Sorry for the technical difficulty, our episode was screwed up, but it's all fixed now -- redownload it if you need to! Email us, [email protected] Everyone wanted to be a witch in middle school, am I right? Also, who wants to help design a science experiment to measure the global consciousness effects on reality? Come on! You know you want to. This episode Sarah and Kelly discuss magical spells and whether they have any effect on reality. Sarah uses science words to prove MAYBE! 4:57 -- it's called a paper fortune teller, chatterbox or cootie catcher (what!?). Here's how to make em! Witches binding Trump: https://www.vox.com/2017/6/20/15830312/magicresistance-restance-witches-magic-spell-to-bind-donald-trump-mememagic Real Magic by Dr. Dean Radin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551604/real-magic-by-dean-radin-phd/9781524758820/ Drowning with Gillyweed: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/jist/article/view/809 Magic of Skelegrow: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/27/scientists-test-reality-of-harry-potter-magic-university-leicester-gillyweed-skele-gro The Global Consciousness Project: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ Shutulman and Morgan. 2017 The explanatory structure of unexplainable events: Causal constraints on magical reasoning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28176291 Police arresting a big goat!  https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/goat-escapes-brooklyn-mali-goat-herder-helps-capture-article-1.1258184