Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_neuroscienceofmagic?currentPage=all
Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_neuroscienceofmagic

"Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world," says Macknik, lead author of the paper. "Even when we know we're going to be tricked, we still can't see it, which suggests that magicians are fooling the mind at a very deep level." By reverse-engineering these deceptions, Macknik hopes to illuminate the mental loopholes that make us see a woman get sawed in half or a rabbit appear out of thin air even when we know such stuff is impossible. "Magicians were taking advantage of these cognitive illusions long before any scientist identified them," Martinez-Conde says.

GReader: Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion http://ow.ly/5xUu [from http://twitter.com/ChipRiley/statuses/1725035126]

Retweeting @copyblogger: Penn & Teller Reveal the Neuroscience of Illusion - http://is.gd/vRUV [from http://twitter.com/apoorvgadwal/statuses/1698147950]

""People take reality for granted," Teller says shortly before stepping onstage. "Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple." For Teller (that's his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don't see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli."

Great Errol Morris series about lies and lying http://bit.ly/CgUcb [from http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/statuses/3208516239]

Errol Morris interviews Ricky Jay.

I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Ricky Jay profile in the New Yorker recommended by Whet Moser

Terrific profile of magician and historian Ricky Jay, and "the virtues of skeleton men, fasting impostors, and cannonball catchers".

A 1993 profile on sleight-of-hand artist and erudite Ricky Jay.

A profile of Ricky Jay from the New Yorker. April 1993.

apple's new 'touch mouse', sounds great, but what about the tactile responses our fingers like to receive: http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/ [from http://twitter.com/willdonovan/statuses/5036109778]

apple going back to no-wheel mouse: http://bit.ly/1dl1yu [from http://twitter.com/friedcell/statuses/5021696713]

checking out Apple Magic Mouse and we think it is a pretty cool mouse (even though it sounds like a Disney creature) http://bit.ly/1OXB6A [from http://twitter.com/ingah/statuses/5042335524]

I like it! Check out the new "magic mouse" from Apple... http://ow.ly/vMrC [from http://twitter.com/LauraleeGuthrie/statuses/5052135176]

fyi: http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

Notable site!

Some interesting videos and camera tricks explored.

Series of Six videos on people who abuse science by calling it paranormal because they don't know the difference. Or often used by scammers who pretend to have "powers".

Compulsive must watch video. Recorded for mainstream British TV and now released on the Internet.

Very cool american duo of comedians slash illusionists. They are the bane of the magician's community, not being one bit too shy to explain the mechanics of their tricks to their viewers.

Humor, magic, and education. What more could you ask for? (via http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=13572)

old classic, P&T explain sleight of hand

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