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Zach King
The trick to regaining your childlike wonder
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Marco Tempest
A swarm of mini drones makes ... magic!
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Are we living in a simulation?
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Oct 2019
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Derren Brown
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Bence Nanay
The "End of History" Illusion
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Petter Johansson
Do you really know why you do what you do?
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Mar 2018
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Eric Dyer
The forgotten art of the zoetrope
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Oct 2017
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Tasos Frantzolas
Everything you hear on film is a lie
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Oct 2016
10:05
Pico Iyer
The beauty of what we'll never know
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Oct 2016
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R. Luke DuBois
Insightful human portraits made from data
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Apr 2016
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Mileha Soneji
Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
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Helder Guimarães
A magical search for a coincidence
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Feb 2015
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Andrew Vanden Heuvel
The moon illusion
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Sep 2013
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Mark Changizi
Why do we see illusions?
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Mar 2013
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Marco Tempest
A cyber-magic card trick like no other
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Oct 2012
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Marco Tempest
A magical tale (with augmented reality)
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Mar 2012
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Ben Goldacre
Battling bad science
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Sep 2011
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Marco Tempest
The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
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Aug 2011
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Eric Mead
The magic of the placebo
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Mar 2010
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Virginia Postrel
On glamour
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Oct 2008
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James Burchfield
Playing invisible turntables
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Oct 2008
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Jonathan Drori
What we think we know
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Sep 2008
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Lennart Green
Close-up card magic with a twist
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Aug 2008
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Keith Barry
Brain magic
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Jul 2008
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VS Ramachandran
3 clues to understanding your brain
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Oct 2007
21:48
Dan Dennett
The illusion of consciousness
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Apr 2007
14:51
Vik Muniz
Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string
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Apr 2007
14:33
Al Seckel
Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think
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Apr 2007
13:25
Michael Shermer
Why people believe weird things
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Nov 2006
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