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:
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!
