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  1. From Mind to Matter: Data analysis challenges psychokinesis

    Numerous experiments in which volunteers mentally attempt to influence the output of computers that generate random sequences of 1s and 0s have failed to show that individuals can use their minds to manipulate the physical world.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. Deadly Disorder: Imagined-ugliness illness yields high suicide rate

    The suicide rate among people with a psychiatric disorder that causes them to perceive themselves as ugly is higher than that among people with major depression.

    By Eric Jaffe

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    This article raises some questions. What about people who are physically unattractive—those whom a majority of the society considers ugly? I suspect that many people treated for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) are unattractive by that definition.