Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
By the way — if you know anyone attending the Meryl Dorey Talk At The Perth Library — send them the link to Vaccination Facts. This was created earlier in the year (New Website For Those Attending The Perth AVN Lecture) in order to cater for parents who have questions regarding the ‘truths’ touted by [...]
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Since Q.I has finally (finally!) reached Australian TV, I thought I might mention an earlier TV show which features Alan Davies — Jonathan Creek. I began watching this years back when it featured on ABC TV, when I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as ‘skepticism’. What I immediately liked about this [...]
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Recorded earlier today (well, late on Halloween) – here’s the seance that was conducted (love the waiter jokes by Randi!): Justin Robert Young and Andrew Mayne, along with help from Brian Brushwood, James Randi, Penn & Teller, the chat room and more.
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From The Scientific American Magazine an excellent six-page article – “Magic and the Brain: How Magicians “Trick” the Mind – Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up”: …In an unpublished study in 2006 Kuhn and cognitive neuroscientists Ben A. [...]
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Las Vegas Weekly with ‘A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER!’ It is impossible that this story be about anything other than a 3 ½-minute trick in the Penn & Teller show. It is a very beautiful trick that can’t be fully conveyed with words because it looks so [...]
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Psychology Today Blogs – you can find a YouTube version of Penn and Teller doing this: You see a lot of interesting things working the night shift in a sketchy neighborhood. I constantly saw people making bad decisions: drunk drivers, gang members, unhappy cops, and con men. In fact, I was the victim of a [...]
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Recently I linked in my miniblog to a recent Nature study on learning from magic tricks about the brain. Included with the paper are videos from a conference – magicians like Teller from Penn & Teller, James Randi and the Great Tomsoni. Here is a terrific demonstration of a scientist (and a New York Times [...]
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