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Project Alpha was an effort by magician James Randi to test the quality of scientific rigor of a well-known test of paranormal phenomena.. In the late 1970s, Randi contacted the newly established McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research ("MacLab") with suggestions on how to conduct tests for paranormal phenomena.
Guy Bavli demonstrates spoon bending in Denmark in 2010. Spoon bending is the deformation of objects, especially metal cutlery, purportedly by paranormal means. It is a common theme for magic tricks, which use a variety of methods to produce the effect.
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. [1]
How it works in a magic trick: “I might emphasize something like, ‘I want you to take this pen and write your name on the card. Make sure you write in really big letters so everyone can see ...
Here are 9 things you should never do with power strips. If your power strips don’t reach quite far enough or you need some extra plugs, it’s tempting to string multiple strips together, daisy ...
2. Space Heaters. Firefighters have seen enough fires caused by this seemingly harmless practice — plugging a heater into a power strip — to say: never do this.Always plug your space heater ...
An illustration from Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), one of the earliest books on magic tricks, explaining how the "Decollation of John Baptist" decapitation illusion may be performed. Among the earliest books on the subject is Gantziony's work of 1489, Natural and Unnatural Magic, which describes and explains old-time ...
The spiritualist Oliver Lodge who was present in the audience was duped by the trick and claimed that Devant had used psychic powers. In 1936 Devant in his book Secrets of My Magic revealed the trick method he had used. [154] The physicist Kristian Birkeland exposed the fraud of the direct voice medium Etta Wriedt.