But mainly, because this was the hardest urban wingsuit flight ever attempted and their survival so clearly depended upon it, they practiced ESP—which, as it turns out, is actually a thing you can practice. PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ESP In 2011, a team of researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois decided to play a little Frogger. Actually, they decided to play a big Frogger. Life-size big. Their goal was to see how normal college students fared against Division I athletes in a few rounds of “cross a busy city street; don’t get
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