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abilities. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/fish-oil-1915424_1920_thumb.jpg" alt="Something Fishy: Fish Oil Supplements"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/something_fishy_fish_oil_supplements">Something Fishy: Fish Oil Supplements</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by Matthew Crowley</h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/volume_27.3">Volume 27.3, Fall 2017</a></h5><br/> <p><p>The story of fish oil is not unusual. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/levitation_thumb.jpg" alt="Bringing Levitation Down to Earth"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/bringing_levitation_down_to_earth">Bringing Levitation Down to Earth</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/benradford">Benjamin Radford</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.2">Volume 27.2, Summer 2017</a></h5><br/> <p><p>I’m not sure that human levitation exists&mdash;much less that it’s attributable to a mind-body connection (or quantum physics)&mdash;but overall I enjoyed speaking with Grosso and reviewing his book. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/saucer-crash_thumb.jpg" alt="Roswell UFO ‘Strange Metal’ Mystery"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/roswell_ufo_strange_metal_mystery">Roswell UFO ‘Strange Metal’ Mystery</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/joenickell">Joe Nickell</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.2">Volume 27.2, Summer 2017</a></h5><br/> <h5 class="type"><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_investigative_files">Investigative Files</a></h5> <p><p>The evidence is overwhelming that the supposed “flying saucer” material was—although a novelty at the time—purely of terrestrial origin. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/greatest-story_thumb.jpg" alt="Reflections on Krauss’s The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/reflections_on_krausss_emthe_greatest_story_ever_toldmdashso_far_em">Reflections on Krauss’s The Greatest Story Ever Told&mdash;So Far</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/Felipe_nogueira">Felipe Nogueira</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.2">Volume 27.2, Summer 2017</a></h5><br/> <h5 class="type"><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/skepticism_and_science">Skepticism and Science</a></h5> <p><p>Lawrence Krauss&#8217; <em>The Greatest Story Ever Told&mdash;So Far</em> was published by Atria Books in the beginning of March. Learn more about it in this article. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/SB-Sp2017-Radford1_thumb.png" alt="The Mirror in the Last Haunted House"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/the_mirror_in_the_last_haunted_house">The Mirror in the Last Haunted House</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/benradford">Benjamin Radford</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.1">Volume 27.1, Spring 2017</a></h5><br/> <p><p>I sought a pure, genuinely foreign experience, something unmistakably supernatural that could not be the product of a tired mind, a mild hallucination, or a half-forgotten memory of a scary film scene&#8230; </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/SB-Sp2017-Nickell1_thumb.png" alt="The New Zealand Moa: From Extinct Bird to Cryptid"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/the_new_zealand_moa_from_extinct_bird_to_cryptid">The New Zealand Moa: From Extinct Bird to Cryptid</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/joenickell">Joe Nickell</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.1">Volume 27.1, Spring 2017</a></h5><br/> <h5 class="type"><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_investigative_files">Investigative Files</a></h5> <p><p>Cryptids are of two types: either (1) unknown species, such as Bigfoot or at one time the Mountain Gorilla; or (2) known species that supposedly become extinct but may have survived and could be rediscovered. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <div class="article-single"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180916122525im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/si/SB-Sp2017-West1_thumb.png" alt="Curated Crowdsourcing in UFO Investigations"/> </div> <h4><a href="sb/show/curated_crowdsourcing_in_ufo_investigations">Curated Crowdsourcing in UFO Investigations</a></h4> <h5 class="author">by <a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/author/Mick West">Mick West</a></h5> <h5><a href="/web/20180916122525/https://www.csicop.org/sb/archive/category/sb_27.1">Volume 27.1, Spring 2017</a></h5><br/> <p><p>Since this flying object was unidentified, the video footage ended up at the Committee for Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), the official UFO investigating body of the Chilean DGAC. </p></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!--/article-single--> <p style="text-align: center"> Page 1 of 31 pages &nbsp; 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