Massimo Polidoro — in 2009 at Tartu Massimo Polidoro is an Italian writer, journalist, television personality, and the co founder and executive director of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CICAP). Contents … Wikipedia
Nina Kulagina — Born Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina 30 July 1926 Died 1990 (1991) Nationality Russian Known for Reported psychic ability … Wikipedia
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List of skeptics and skeptical organizations — This is a list of people and organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism. In general they favor science and are opposed to what they call pseudoscience and quackery. They are generally skeptical of parapsychology and the… … Wikipedia
James Randi — Infobox Celebrity name = James Randi size = caption = birth name = Randall James Hamilton Zwinge birth date = birth date and age|1928|8|7 birth place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada death date = death place = occupation = Magician, skeptic, writer… … Wikipedia
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University of Costa Rica — It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious institution of higher learning in Costa Rica. Approximately 39,000 students attend UCR throughout the year.HistoryThe origins of the University dates back to the establishment of first university in … Wikipedia
Eusapia Palladino — from Naples, Italy. In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. [Radcliffe, 1952, page 321.] In Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Russia, Palladino seemed to display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and… … Wikipedia
Piergiorgio Odifreddi — (born July 13 1950), is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist.Born in Cuneo (Piedmont), he received his Laurea in mathematics in Turin in … Wikipedia
Antonino Zichichi — (born october 15 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics. BiographyZichichi was born in Trapani, Sicily, in 1929. He has collaborated to several important discoveries in the field of subnuclear physics and has … Wikipedia