Comments on: Reading Thoughts by Radio and Inventor Forecasts Private Radio Systems

By: nurbles

nurbles — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:35:05 +0000

I’m coming to this a couple weeks late, but I found “about 68″ hits for radioplasm on Google. Many were references to this, but a few were from other things. Switching to Google Books gets five interesting hits…

By: John Grant

John Grant — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:15:18 +0000

Um, Glindsey, the liberal reward was for disproving their claim of it being wireless. I’m going to have to give you an unhappy face for reading on your next report card.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:48:54 +0000

Congratulations! Between this entry and BoingBoing’s meta-reference to it, you’ve DOUBLED the Google hits for “radioplasm”. To four. Not exactly the next “truthiness”, but from small acorns….

“…small instruments, the cost of which would be nominal…”
The sound you just heard waas a million cell-phone subscribers laughingso hard they can’t breathe.

By: yuubi

yuubi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:34:51 +0000

It looks like someone offstage used radio rather than wires to control the “mind-reading robot”. There was no reward for debunking the mind-reading bit, just the wireless bit. I guess it’s otherwise a standard cold-reading act.

This way to the great egress.

By: glindsey

glindsey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:03:48 +0000

And of course nobody could claim the “liberal reward” because nobody could ever prove that the person wasn’t thinking what the automaton said he/she was thinking.

By: William Deering

William Deering — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:50:49 +0000

Mind reading acts of that time often refered to protoplasm. That may have had something to do with the attempt to coin the word “radioplasm” for detecting thoughts from the ether (another word popular with 1924 mediums).