Speaker’s Books:

Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs – (review on BrainPickings)

The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Indistinguishable From Magic: Science in the Middle Ages

• The Abacus & the Cross: The Story of the Pope who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages, by Nancy Marie Brown
• Gerbert, the Teacher, by Oscar Darlington (1947, American Historical Review – out of print) — On Abebooks
• The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts, by Edward Grant
• The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, by T Huff

Science, Spectacle and Transmission: The Krakatoa Sunsets

Print:

• Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded, by Simon Winchester

Online:

• “How Volcanoes Work: Krakatau, Indonesia 1883” – San Diego State University Geological Sciences
• The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena: Report of the Krakatoa committee of the Royal Society (1888), Ed. by G.J. Simmons – Internet Archive
• “The sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times” by Aatish Bhatia – Nautilus
• History of Geology blog by David Bressan – Scientific American
• (documentary) “How the Earth Was Made”
• “The Krakatoa Sunsets” – Public Domain Review
• “The Blood-Red Sky of The Scream” – American Physical Society

Connections, Conspiracy & Apophenia

Print:

• Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer

Online:

• “Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise” – Scientific American
• (video) “Christ on a Cracker! (Apophenia, Pareiloidia & Conspiracy Paranoia)” – Smithsonian.com
• “The Battle of Milvan Bridge” – HistoryToday.com

Luminous Balls & Fire from the Sky

Online:

• “Vaporized Dirt may be the Mysterious Cause of Ball Lightning” – Smithsonian.com

The Illusion of Others: More Than Meets the I

Online:

• “The Sensed Presence Effect” – Scientific American

The Angel’s Glow of Shiloh: Solving the Mystery of the Civil War’s Glowing Bodies

Online:

• “Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark” – MentalFloss.com

Hypnogogia & the Art of the Nightmare

• Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind Body Connection, by Shelley Adler
• Symbolism, by Michael Gibson
• Hypnagogia, by Andreas Mavromatis
• The Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890-1985, by Maurice Tuchman
• The Terror that Comes in the Night, by David J Hufford
• The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness, by Jeff Warren

Online:

• “The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills” – The Atlantic
• (video) Jeff Warren & the Wheel of Consciousness – YouTube

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Jade Hoffman, Amy Widdowson Mains, Douglas Worley, Aj Anderson, Patrick House, Marcelo Pontin and Raven Ebner.  Thank you!