#research
27 entries tagged research.
Organizations (19)
- Advanced Research Projects Agency The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for funding and overseeing advanced technological research. It is now known as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).[^1]
- Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi Germany think tank that operated as a research institute for the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race. It was founded by Heinrich Himmler, who served as its president and overlord.[^1]
- AiResearch Manufacturing Group AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California.
- American Society for Psychical Research The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James.
- Bell Labs Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company, historically known for its innovations in telecommunications and computing.
- DARPA The DARPA (DARPA) is the modern name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the...
- Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena.
- Institute of Noetic Science The Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute. It was founded by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, a known psi enthusiast.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility located in Livermore, California. It is one of the two primary institutions responsible for America's nuclear weapons research and development.
- Monroe Institute The Monroe Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness, known for its Hemi-Sync audio technology. It was founded by Robert Monroe.
- Office of Naval Research The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an agency within the U.S. Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
- Office of Research and Development (CIA) The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology.
- Parapsychological Association The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology.
- Rand Corporation The Rand Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, it is mentioned as being larger and more prestigious than Stanford Research Institute among scientific think tanks in the early...
- Round Table Foundation The Round Table Foundation was a research facility founded by Andrija Puharich in Glen Cove, Maine, in the late 1940s.
- Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas.
- Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882.
- Stanford Research Institute The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a scientific research institute based in Menlo Park, California. In the early 1970s, SRI became the center of the U.S.
- Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science is a preeminent research facility in Israel. After Israel's successful War of Independence in 1948, Ernst David Bergmann became the director of its chemistry division.
Programs (3)
- Project Deep Quest Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
- Project Pandora Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union.
- STARGATE PROJECT The STARGATE PROJECT was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland. Its purpose was to investigate Psi phenomena, particularly Remote Viewing, for military and intelligence applications.
Concepts (5)
- Human Use Experimentation Human Use Experimentation refers to the ethical and regulatory framework governing research involving human subjects, particularly in military and intelligence contexts.
- Human Use Review Board A Human Use Review Board (also known as an Institutional Review Board or IRB) is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety.
- Parapsychology Parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal or psychic phenomena, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK).
- Psychotronic Research Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.
- Zener Cards Zener Cards are a deck of five cards, each bearing a distinct symbol (a circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star).