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How Magicians Trick Your Brain: The Psychology Of Magic

We know magic tricks aren't real, yet we continue to be fooled and impressed by...

How 'The Magicians' Uses Magic to Tell Stories About Trauma

Syfy’s endlessly inventive fantasy drama offers rare insight into mental illness and the fallout from sexual violence.

What’s a Responsible Game Store to Do?

I’ve been struggling with the right thing to do at the shop to be good ducks right now and it is very tough. We don’t wanna be over the top, but we also really want to make sure we keep…

Celebrity magician creates YouTube magic show for kids

Although he's used to traveling the world and performing for celebrities, he's taken his tricks online for a daily magic show.

Why 'Marketing' in Magic is So Hated

How magicians won Facebook

A group of illusionists got rich making addictive videos for social media. Did it cost them their souls?

Why some female hummingbirds masquerade as males

Scientists are increasingly finding examples of female birds with showy, male-like plumage.

Do Your Wants Masquerade As Needs?

Once we have identified a desire as a need, we tend to demand the right to fill that need. We seem to acknowledge that a desire doesn’t quite meet the level of a basic need.

Are common medications masquerading as dementia in seniors?

An estimated 1 in 4 older adults take anticholinergic drugs — a wide-ranging class of medications used to treat allergies, insomnia, leaky bladders, dizziness, and various psychiatric disorders, among other ailments.

How to Spot a UX Masquerader

I've recently had an increasing number of conversations with other UX professionals about the difficulties in finding true UX talent and how they have be...

Nugget of Knowledge: Magician's jargon

Magicians never reveal their secrets, but we do know a little bit of their language, their jargon.

Was Jesus a Magician or a Miracle-Worker? 

Maybe the sleight of hand here isn't having to do anything with Jesus, maybe it's seen within the calculated misdirection from various scholars... The actual miracle is not seen within the works in which the religious elite might deem as "magic."

Why The Magicians Made for Such Compelling Television

As much as I’m tempted to spend this entire time trying to unpack Todd’s reveal that he bought Party of Five books (what possible mysteries were afoot ...

These magicians are famous for ruining their own tricks

Typically, magicians don’t want the audience to know how their illusions work, but that’s exactly what this duo aims to do. “A Gan” and “Pokerface Man” are build…

Magicians' tactics found in politics and marketing

Magicians use "powerful tools" of psychology to manipulate people's behaviour, say researchers.

Mistaken identity: Researchers discover stars masquerading as exoplanets

The identity of three, possibly four, stars has been brought into question, as researchers re-evaluate the objects' size, revealing they are far too big to be exoplanets.