Russell Targ is a well-known figure in the field of parapsychology, being a key figure (along with Hal Puthoff) in experimentation with techniques of ‘remote viewing’ in the 1970s. The talk above was given last month at the ‘ExTED’ conference “Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm” (formerly TEDxWestHollywood until TED withdrew their support in the wake of last month’s controversy) in Los Angeles. In the talk he regales the crowd with tales of his work with everyone from psychics like Pat Price to the military and C.I.A. Told with a nice dose of humour, it’s a fun little talk that also acts as a neat introduction to this topic if you haven’t read the books about it.