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In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them two highly gifted 'percipients'. Together, they predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning: that he was about to die.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

A weekly show about the trends, ideas and disruptions changing the face of our democracy. Hosted by Sam Gill, Knight Foundation's chief program officer, it takes a hard look at the important issues our country is facing today.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

Der Überraschungsbestseller über die Wissenschaft des Paranormalen Im März des Jahres 1967 sagt der Telefonist Alan Hencher einen Flugzeugabsturz im Mittelmeerraum mit 123 oder 124 Toten voraus. Genau 30 Tage später wird eine Bristol Britannia am Flughafen Nikosia, Zypern, in den Boden...

“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies . . . Knight’s book is crisp.” —Dwight Garner, New York...