Watch this video from TED featuring Michael Shermer on HowStuffWorks. Shermer is the founder of Skeptic Magazine and he explores strange claims from alien encounters to Virgin Mary sightings on pizza pies, to hidden messages revealed while playing "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, and explains the evolutionary and cognitive basis for these lapses in reason. See how lapses in reason work in this video from TED (www.ted.com)