On 14 May 1996, Administrador del Nodo wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>> In the journal entitled Carnegie Technical
> vol. 3 (1939) pp. 15-19 (quod in manibus non habui), a
> certain M. Reynolds reported of a person who, after having
> brushed the teeth with a gritty compound, distinctly heard
> without any radio set or similar device, the program of a
> neighboring broadcasting station. The title of the inform
> was (of course!) "A scientific basis of mental telepathy".
> The notice was picked up by an academical medical text en-
> titled ""Encyclopaedia of aberrations, A psychiatric hand-
> book", edited by E. Podolski and A. Adler (Philosophical
> Library, N. York 1953) where the brain is considered as if
> broadcasting a kind of radio wave, in the form taken by e-
> lectrical XVII-century models of the soul since, more than
> one century ago, a certain Hertz show sympathies between
> some coils and a spintariscopy. The matter was commented
> by H. Kuhlenbeck ("The brain and its mind", Karger, 1982,
> p. 87) whereof I took my notes, as direct source for the
> present comment.
>>> Kuhlenbeck suppossed that the teeth acted like
> a crystal detector, and that the resulting electric potential
> fluctuations of audio-frequencies stimulated the organ of
> Corti.
>> I am trying to implement an experimental set-
> ting trying to ascertain if the original report could have
> been fair. So I would gratefully appreciate any comment di-
> rected to this experimental aim and its practicable varia-
> tions.
> Warm regards,
This sorry is similar to the one I heard years ago about a man who\
lived next door to a radio station, went to the dentist and had
a tooth filled and started to hear the radio from his tooth. He
thought he was crazy. When the dentist grind the filling down a little
the radio went away. Ron Blue
