Magician Brandon Scott will be on Coast to Coast AM on Monday, July 9. This is the magician Anne Strieber went to see when she had her time warp experience with Starfire Tor. Don’t miss it!
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Occasionally we’ve written about magic on this website?and sometimes quantum physics can SEEM like magic. Now science has turned its attention to sword swallowing.
Radiologist Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer, of Sword Swallowers’ Association International, sent out medical questionnaires to over 100 professional sword swallowers to determine what sort of medical problems they encountered.
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We know that magicians are fooling us, but why can’t we catch them at it? Or is there such a thing a REAL magic?
In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi quotes psychologist Gustav Kuhn as saying, “It made sense to look at magicians to advance knowledge of human cognition, since magicians have been working on figuring out how certain principles of psychology work for hundreds of years.” He studied a magic trick called the “vanishing ball,” in which a ball seems to disappear in midair. It’s done by the magician pretending to throw a ball, while all the time keeping it palmed in his hand.
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Using a sleight of hand move he calls “reverse pickpocketing,” magician David Copperfield used his special powers to fend off four Florida muggers recently. Keep reading to find out more.
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