Fortean Blogscan 06-09-2009

A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• At the Psychedelic Salon: Terence McKenna's "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism", parts one, two, and three,
• Guy Lyon Playfair takes the knives to Richard Wiseman's Twitter experiment on psi.
• Filip Coppens investigates the 'Denderah lightbulbs' from ancient Egypt.
• Bruce Rux is the subject of a 3-part Binnall of America audio podcast. So far parts one and two have been posted.
• At Sentient Developments, George Dvorsky explores transhumanist themes in Battlestar Galactica: Caprica.
• At Public Parapsychology, Wendy E. Cousins reviews Damien Broderick's Outside the Gates of Science (Amazon US and UK).
• An interview with Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats.
• The most recent Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast features an interview with Brian Brushwood.
• Michael Tymn remembers Frederic Myers, a giant in the history of psi/afterlife research.
• Graham Hancock's Forum section has a new article from Richard E. Ford, "The Great Pyramid: Symbols and Hieroglyphs in the King's Chamber".
• The latest Paracast interview is with Nancy Talbott discussing research into crop circles.
• Zahi Hawass tells all of his special relationship with Mark Lehner.
• In the most recent Skeptiko podcast, Alex Tsakiris chats with Mark Ireland who is seeking proof of psychic medium afterlife communication.

Enjoy!