2014-10-21 Communication: Utopia

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Utopia - an ideal society or country where everything is perfect (in the opinion of the author)

Dystopia - the opposite (common in science fiction)
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Sir Thomas More, 1516, 'Concerning the best state of a commonwealth and the new island Utopia'

psychosomatic

Harry Houdini

James Randi

confirmation bias: when you remember the successful predictions and forget the failed ones (more generally, you notice and remember things that confirm what you already belive)