02301cam a2200325 i 4500 295962910 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 051021s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005014450 9780393059625 $24.95 0393059626 $24.95 DLC eng rda DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Roach, Mary. Spook [BOOK] : science tackles the afterlife / Mary Roach. Science tackles the afterlife. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311). You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation -- The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels -- How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale -- The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul -- Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm -- The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab -- Soul ina dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school -- Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead -- Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? -- Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots -- Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness -- Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers. Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts. 20100106. Religion and science. Future life. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014450.html