Uri Geller

A couple of decades later, Randi embarked on a second career as a Houdini-caliber debunker of psychic frauds. His take-down of Uri Geller on the Tonight Show is still devastating to watch. Sometime during my adolescence, when I was an...

In this article: James Randi, Robert Anton Wilson, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Martin Gardner, Illuminatus!, and The Crying of Lot 49

...End and the National Football Museum. It's a great place to wander around. They have the '66 World Cup ball, autographed (bizarrely) by Uri Geller, and much else beside. One floor is given over to an exhibition celebrating Tom Finney,...

In this article: World Cup, Bill Shankly, Preston North End, Wigan Athletic, Britain, Prestonian, and Deepdale

...attempts to -- no kidding -- harness mind power to fight its enemies: If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can send Uri Geller into combat with a bent spoon, right? "The Men Who Stare at Goats" takes Ronson's findings and...

In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Jon Ronson, and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

...Foundation, a non-profit based on the works of noted conjurer and skeptic James Randi - famous for debunking the spoon-bending efforts of Uri Geller. The critical thinking movement is growing by leaps and bounds, and the JREF has been at the...

In this article: Phil Plait, James Randi Educational Foundation, Hubble Space Telescope, Discover Magazine, Sky & Telescope, James Randi, and Twitter

...to kill goats and hamsters with a stare. Ronson, who published his first book in 1994, found his idea for the story when he met Uri Geller, a man who has psychic abilities and claims to have worked with the CIA on a mission it hoped...

In this article: Jon Ronson, Goat, Jim Channon, Ewan McGregor, CIA, Jeff Bridges, and George Clooney

...mid 1970s to the mid 1990s. The psi-war began in the early 1970s as news of Soviet psychical research, combined with rumours of Uri Geller's abilities in Israel, reached America. The leaked Soviet research was possibly disinformation intended...

In this article: Edgar Mitchell, CIA, US, Jon Ronson, and Area 51

...campaign. Also "dishonored" are radio blowhard Michael Savage; election bungler Diebold; the endlessly discredited "paranormalist" Uri Geller; and even the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which apparently has donned a black hat on...

In this article: IT Security, Linux, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IDC, YouTube, National Public Radio, and John McCain

...outs of enemy bases and top-secret plans for new weapons. the concept was known as remote viewing. Uri Geller, who has reportedly claimed in the past that he was employed by US intelligence as a psychic spy, is intrigued by the new film.

In this article: Jim Channon, Jon Ronson, Goat, US, Fort Bragg, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and George Clooney

..."shocking" and "dramatic" video footage from all over the world is a segment with psychic spoonman Yuri Geller, who shows some home videos he made with Jacko, a close friend of his. Supposedly, these videos have never been shown before, and...

In this article: Tamori Club, Yuri Geller, Michael Jackson, Tokyo, Snickers, Giraffe, Mikie Hara, TV Asahi, and Akira Nagata

Uri Geller, a close friend of Michael Jackson, says the singer - who died with lethal levels of propofol in his system - was "killing himself slowly" with drugs and disclosed at times he could not wake him. According to findings by the...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Propofol, Insomnia, Lorazepam, Sedative, Midazolam, Los Angeles, and BBC Radio 4