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Uri Geller Gets Bent

Spoon-Altering Psychic Has Copyright Advocates Bent Out of Shape

img_0088200.jpgUri Geller Runs Afoul of YouTube Users
by Paul Elias
The Associated Press
July 9, 2007

San Francisco – Uri Geller became a 1970s superstar and made millions with an act that included bending spoons, seemingly through the power of his own mind.

Now, the online video generation is so bent out of shape over the self-proclaimed psychic’s behavior that he’s fast reaching the same Internet pariah status as the recording and movie industries.

Geller’s tireless attempts to silence his detractors have extended to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, landing him squarely in the center of a raging digital-age debate over controlling copyrights amid the massive volume of video and music clips flowing freely online. Continue reading “Uri Geller Gets Bent”

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Michael Shermer on Skepticism and Pseudoscience, from “TED Talks”

This video is from the TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) 2006 Conference and it lives exclusively on the TED Website. They also offer a 45.7MB video podcast of it you can download. Although there is an ad at the beginning and the end of the video, the content in between is well worth viewing. -SR

From the TED Website: “Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer takes us on a hilarious romp through the strange claims we humans put forth as truth – from alien encounters to Virgin Mary sightings on pizza pies, to hidden messages revealed while playing ‘Stairway to Heaven’ backwards – and explains the evolutionary and cognitive basis for these lapses in reason… Continue reading “Michael Shermer on Skepticism and Pseudoscience, from “TED Talks””

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