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'Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them'

In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi was on the right track in his advice to the young Luke Skywalker. People are fooled by magic tricks, even if their eyes see past the illusion, a new study reveals.

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'Sleights of Mind' -- Scientists and Magicians on Cognitive Illusions

Source: richarddawkins.net

Secretive as they are about specifics, the magicians were as eager as the scientists when it came to discussing the cognitive illusions that masquerade as magic: disguising one action as another, implying data that isn't there, taking advantage of how the brain fills in gaps —  …

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? - And They Say Religion is Strange?

Source: The New York Times

If true, it would mean that you yourself reading this article are more likely to be some momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space than a person with a real past born through billions of years of evolution in an orderly star-spangled cosmos.

The Magic Tricks Blog

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The Magic Tricks Blog will bring you great magic trick tutorials, explanations, reveals of great magic tricks, or reviews for card tricks, coin tricks, close-up tricks, mentalism, XCM, illusions and other tricks.

Magic shop

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Magic shop in UK selling magic tricks, street magic, instructional magic DVDs and loads more. Loads of magic tricks have demo videos so you can see them being performed.

Political and Economic Power is Illusory

The is neither to say that it is worthless nor that it is without merit. It is simply an important point to bear in mind. Let's examine these two types of power. Political Power is your capacity to have others do what you say.

Optical Illusion: Einstein or Harry Potter?

Source: web-strategist.com

An optical illusion at the MIT museum in Cambridge.

Study Creates Out-of-Body Experiences

Source: ABC News

"I wanted to understand how we recognize our own body and how we know where in space our body is located," said Henrik Ehrsson, an assistant professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and a researcher at University College London.

Glass Through Table Illusion

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In today's lesson on how to do magic tricks, I want to show you a video on how you can make a glass cup disappear through the table. The trick involves a quick maneuver and distraction method.

Magician?s Rules to Remember

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We just picked up a new trick. Excited, we run off and show it off to our friends. During the trick, a something unexpected happens: Oh no. We've just ruined our reputation. No one will ever want to see my tricks again. Why did this happen?

Spinning Building

Source: YouTube

An old building was turned into a masterpiece, by cutting out its windows in large shapes so you can see entire enterior from the street. The freakiest fact about this building is that those large shapes are constantly spinning around!

House Illusion in Washignton DC

Source: YouTube

This one was recorded at National Gallery Scupture Garden in Washington DC. It would be great to see it for real, but only if you live in or anywhere near DC. Anyway, here is also a video which can provide pretty good idea on how this illusion really looks like.

God is Imaginary

Source: GodIsImaginary.com

Billions of people attend millions of churches around the world to worship God. Yet the God they worship is completely imaginary. Their belief represents a delusion. It is easy to prove that God is imaginary..

Rotating Snake: Awesome Optical Illusion

Source: dailycognition.com

Awesome illusion. It'll make circles literally turn......

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Amazing riddle - can you solve it? How is this possible?

Source: Revver

How is this done? Can you post your solution? cool riddle!

One of the Greatest Optical Illusions You Will Ever See

Source: MIT

Yes, the squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray.

Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't

Source: The New York Times

I was a free man until they brought the dessert menu around. There was one of those molten chocolate cakes, and I was suddenly being dragged into a vortex, swirling helplessly toward caloric doom, sucked toward the edge of a black (chocolate) hole.

Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't

Source: The New York Times

"...physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists have joined the heirs of Plato and Aristotle in arguing about what free will is, whether we have it, and if not, why we ever thought we did in the first place."

Television is a goddamned amusement park

Source: Google

This piece was created by cobbling together several speeches made by Howard Beale in the 1976 movie "Network".

The Illusion of a Two-Party System

There appears to be a political pearl of wisdom, one of considerable luster, adorning the forthcoming election.

LiveScience.com - Creepy Experiment Exposes Paranoia and Sense of Alien Control

Source: Live Science

The young woman went to doctors to have them probe her brain, to root out where her seizures came from.

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