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I love it. Tony Cornell, the head of the Society for Psychical Research, argues that mobile phones are scaring off ghosts:

“Ghost sightings have remained consistent for centuries. Until three years ago we’d receive reports of two new ghosts every week,” said Cornell, of Cambridge in Eastern England.

“But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years ago, ghost sightings began to decline to the point where now we are receiving none.”


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I'm Clive Thompson, the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Penguin Press). You can order the book now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, Indiebound, or through your local bookstore! I'm also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired magazine. Email is here or ping me via the antiquated form of AOL IM (pomeranian99).

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