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For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" DisappearedShattered glass fragments captured in mid-air against a black background.For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" DisappearedShattered glass fragments captured in mid-air against a black background.

For 400 Years, A Strange Phenomenon Saw Royals And Commoners Fear They Would Shatter. Then, The "Glass Delusion" Disappeared

Only a few modern cases exist – why?

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“They Basically Refused Any Kind Of Public Debate On This": Why The "Quiet Christian Revival" Narrative Fell ApartA photo showing two empty church pews in a catholic church. In the background, a column of pews with some people sat among them is visible, though blurred. The church is richly decorated with stain glass windows in the background.

“They Basically Refused Any Kind Of Public Debate On This": Why The "Quiet Christian Revival" Narrative Fell Apart

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“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chillsfigure sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose wearing headphones, surrounded by concentric circles of wavy lines and musical notes, with colours going from orange in the center to yellow at the edges.

“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chills

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How Do Bigfoot Hunters Use Scientific Evidence? We Asked Two Sociologists Who Have Spent Years Among The Bigfootersillustration of figure in a dark forest confronted by a huge figure resembling depictions of Bigfoot

How Do Bigfoot Hunters Use Scientific Evidence? We Asked Two Sociologists Who Have Spent Years Among The Bigfooters

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The Australian "Ghost Nuisance" Got So Bad Newspapers Called For Ghosts To Be Shot On SightGraves and a tree in a dark, foggy graveyard.

The Australian "Ghost Nuisance" Got So Bad Newspapers Called For Ghosts To Be Shot On Sight

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The "Breaking Bad" Effect: Cancer Diagnoses Can Prompt A 14 Percent Increase In Criminal ConvictionsA collage conceptual image showing a an X-ray of a person's abdomen, a stethoscope, a gavel, a pile of dollar bills, some handcuffs, and a pair of rubber gloves holding a medical mask. These items are arranged in two rows of three, one above the other, and they have been set on top of a background image of a hospital ward with a strong blue filter on the lens.

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The "Breaking Bad" Effect: Cancer Diagnoses Can Prompt A 14 Percent Increase In Criminal ConvictionsA collage conceptual image showing a an X-ray of a person's abdomen, a stethoscope, a gavel, a pile of dollar bills, some handcuffs, and a pair of rubber gloves holding a medical mask. These items are arranged in two rows of three, one above the other, and they have been set on top of a background image of a hospital ward with a strong blue filter on the lens.
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The "Breaking Bad" Effect: Cancer Diagnoses Can Prompt A 14 Percent Increase In Criminal Convictions

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The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate Tiny Human FiguresThree boletus mushrooms in the grass.

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The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate Tiny Human FiguresThree boletus mushrooms in the grass.
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The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate Tiny Human Figures

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Capgras Syndrome: The Nightmarish Delusion That Your Loved Ones Have Been Replaced By Impostorsblack and white shot of theatrical masks hanging on a wall

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Capgras Syndrome: The Nightmarish Delusion That Your Loved Ones Have Been Replaced By Impostorsblack and white shot of theatrical masks hanging on a wall
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Capgras Syndrome: The Nightmarish Delusion That Your Loved Ones Have Been Replaced By Impostors

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Gourmand Syndrome: When Brain Injuries Spark An Obsessive Craving For Fine Food And GastronomyA professional waiter serves sparkling drinks at a modern restaurant, creating an elegant dining experience.

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Gourmand Syndrome: When Brain Injuries Spark An Obsessive Craving For Fine Food And GastronomyA professional waiter serves sparkling drinks at a modern restaurant, creating an elegant dining experience.
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Gourmand Syndrome: When Brain Injuries Spark An Obsessive Craving For Fine Food And Gastronomy

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The Strange Reason Why "Baker-Miller Pink" Came To Be Painted In So Many Prison Cellsillustration of human silhouettes with barbed wire above and below to represent being jailed, all in shades of pink on a background in the specific shade of Baker-Miller pink

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The Strange Reason Why "Baker-Miller Pink" Came To Be Painted In So Many Prison Cellsillustration of human silhouettes with barbed wire above and below to represent being jailed, all in shades of pink on a background in the specific shade of Baker-Miller pink
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The Strange Reason Why "Baker-Miller Pink" Came To Be Painted In So Many Prison Cells

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Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"A conceptual image showing man's silhouette against a darker backdrop. The man is position on profile, facing to the left and appears to be rubbing his chin in thought. The center of his head shows a bright circle with a smaller silhouette of a man walking in it. This small circle is radiating light that gives the man's main profile definition against the dark surrounding him.

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Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"A conceptual image showing man's silhouette against a darker backdrop. The man is position on profile, facing to the left and appears to be rubbing his chin in thought. The center of his head shows a bright circle with a smaller silhouette of a man walking in it. This small circle is radiating light that gives the man's main profile definition against the dark surrounding him.
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Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"

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The 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" Took College Students On A Psilocybin-Fueled Trip – To ChurchMarsh Chapel, Boston, in black and white and skewed towards the left, with a psychedelic rainbow sky behind it

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The 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" Took College Students On A Psilocybin-Fueled Trip – To ChurchMarsh Chapel, Boston, in black and white and skewed towards the left, with a psychedelic rainbow sky behind it
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The 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" Took College Students On A Psilocybin-Fueled Trip – To Church

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Chemical Warfare: This Is What Chemical Weapons Do To The BodyA photo of someone wearing a gas mask and a green plastic-like suit covering their body. They are standing looking directly at the camera with their back to a weathered, stained wall.

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Chemical Warfare: This Is What Chemical Weapons Do To The BodyA photo of someone wearing a gas mask and a green plastic-like suit covering their body. They are standing looking directly at the camera with their back to a weathered, stained wall.
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Chemical Warfare: This Is What Chemical Weapons Do To The Body

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Why Do Some People Believe The Moon Influences Mental Health?A photo taken of the full moon in a cloudy night sky. The moon itself is framed in the picture's center with darker and lighter clouds surrounding it.

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Why Do Some People Believe The Moon Influences Mental Health?A photo taken of the full moon in a cloudy night sky. The moon itself is framed in the picture's center with darker and lighter clouds surrounding it.
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Why Do Some People Believe The Moon Influences Mental Health?

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From Shrink Rays And Simulated Universes To Medical Mishaps And More: The Stories That Made The Vault In 2025A digital photo showing a classic vault-like aperture with an open door. Within the vault are columns with draws from which photos are escaping. The photos have spilled out of the vault and show, from left to right, a framed image of a load of leeches; the spiral inside a shell; a black and white photo of a dog having another head sown to its neck; a digital image of a person at night shining a light on a giant-like creature; a digital image of clocks swirling and stretching; a brain in a block of ice; a photo taken from first-person perspective of a patient looking up at their surgeons from an operating table; a mummified body of an alien-like creature; and a man being shot by a ray gun that's shrinking him. Inside the vault, there are three framed images, one of the guinea pig sitting up; a handful of dried psilocybin mushrooms arrange on a yellow background; and a photo of cows in a field, one of which is being beemed up into the air by a UFO.

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From Shrink Rays And Simulated Universes To Medical Mishaps And More: The Stories That Made The Vault In 2025A digital photo showing a classic vault-like aperture with an open door. Within the vault are columns with draws from which photos are escaping. The photos have spilled out of the vault and show, from left to right, a framed image of a load of leeches; the spiral inside a shell; a black and white photo of a dog having another head sown to its neck; a digital image of a person at night shining a light on a giant-like creature; a digital image of clocks swirling and stretching; a brain in a block of ice; a photo taken from first-person perspective of a patient looking up at their surgeons from an operating table; a mummified body of an alien-like creature; and a man being shot by a ray gun that's shrinking him. Inside the vault, there are three framed images, one of the guinea pig sitting up; a handful of dried psilocybin mushrooms arrange on a yellow background; and a photo of cows in a field, one of which is being beemed up into the air by a UFO.
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From Shrink Rays And Simulated Universes To Medical Mishaps And More: The Stories That Made The Vault In 2025

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