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Nature 446, 10-11 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446010a; Published online 28 February 2007
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The lab that asked the wrong questions
Lucy Odling-Smee
A medley of random-event machines, including a kaleidoscopic crystal ball on a pendulum, a pipe spurting water and a motorized box straddled by a toy frog, came to the end of their working lives yesterday at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory in New Jersey.Only romantics — and some parapsychologists — are likely to lament the loss of this unique institution, which investigated whether people can alter the behaviour of machines using their thoughts.
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