ESP

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Her film credits include the 1984 classic “Ghostbusters,” where she appeared as one of the students participating in the ESP study conducted by Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

He became fascinated by the anthropology of the abnormal—from trance states to traditional magical practices to the possibility of ESP.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

Quirk was always a few covers away: The Day The Martians Landed, screamed one headline, with two alien spaceships looming dramatically; or ESP: Fact Or Fiction, as part of a series of "eternal controversies".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

“We wanted to see if we could make it possible to encrypt data while using existing services,” says computer scientist Jason Nieh, one of the developers of ESP.

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2021

Because of the way ESP is defined—communication without any normal sensory mechanisms—there is no way to tell the difference between a single incidence of ESP and a chance guess.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos