Looking for examples of synchronicity, or evidence of "collective unconscious"-- like world records that, once broken, are broken by many others, or two musicians coming up with similar tunes without knowing each other, etc. Has there ever been historical evidence of synchronized events?
posted by dmaterialized on Nov 2, 2008 - 17 answers

Is there any scientific evidence to support the existence of psychic phenomenon? [more inside]
posted by my homunculus is drowning on Jan 11, 2007 - 50 answers

Language/Listening/WordFilter [mi] [more inside]
posted by zelphi on Jan 15, 2005 - 13 answers

When reading a book about Newton V's Leibniz recently, it occurred to me that great advances in Science often seem to occur in tandem, ie two unrelated persons or groups often arrive at a breakthrough at roughly the same time. Is this true? Can anyone think of some other examples? Can anyone explain why this may be the case?
posted by kev23f on Nov 19, 2004 - 21 answers