Pope ChocolateChipCookie I wrote:
Click he http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

When you get to the above site, click on THE REALTIME DISPLAY
which is on the RIGHT side of the display.

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A GLOBAL NETWORK of electronic devices produces continuous
random data sequences. Subtle patterns in the data are linked with
events that cause shared thoughts and emotions in millions of people.
The results challenge common ideas about the world, but independent
analyses confirm the unexpected patterns, and also indicate that they
cannot be attributed to ordinary physical forces or electromagnetic fields.

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international
collaboration created in 1998 to study the subtle reach of human
consciousness in the physical world. We maintain a network
of random event generators (REGs) with nodes in more than
50 locations, from Alaska to Fiji, on all continents, and in
nearly every time zone. The world map on the right has a
bright spot for each of the host sites

What an absurd waste of time and money. For an encore perhaps they can:

* Study the sex lives of chipped potatoes.
* Hug trees and measure the emotional response (of the trees).
* Prance around in circles, squares and triangles. Measure the before
and after resonance in the walls.
* Paint left hand green, right hand red, place one in front of other and
rapidly alternate them during every waking hour for an entire month.
Observe effect on sanity.
* Sing Cilla Black hits for a week. Measure effect on world terrorism.
Change lyrics to remove the letter 'r' from every verse and repeat.
* Run through streets with 6ft inflatable hotdog screaming "LA LA LA"
over and over for two years. Compare climate change data to test period.
* Strap 50 mobile telephones to head, 50 to a tailors dummy head.
Observe which receives more wrong number calls over three year period.
* Navigate using only left hand turns and with a minimum distance of 10
yards between each turn. Measure time before other faculty members start
to call you weird, asshole, or kook.

I'm sure you'll agree that there is as much merit to all these studies.