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The man who magically made maths fun
The writer and puzzle master Martin Gardner, who died in 2010, was once said to have turned dozens of innocent youngsters into maths professors - and thousands of maths professors into innocent youngsters. Maths writer Colm Mulcahy looks back at the amazing career of a man who would have been 100 this week.
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Miguel CHEVALIER Magic Carpets 2014
Magic Carpets se déploient sur le sol de la cour intérieure octogonale de Castel del Monte, datant du XIIIe siècle. Magic Carpets revisite par le biais de l'art numérique, la tradition de la mosaïque très présente en Italie, qui préfigure le pixel. Des tableaux de méga mosaïques/pixels noirs et blancs instables glissent progressivement vers des spirales de couleurs vives et saturées qui tourbillonnent et exécutent de véritables chorégraphies sur la musique de Jacopo Baboni Schilingi.
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The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
A few minutes before 8 o’clock one Sunday evening last July, around 600 people crowded into the main conference hall of the South Point casino in Las Vegas. After taking their seats on red-velvet upholstered chairs, they chattered noisily as they awaited the start of the Million Dollar Challenge. When Fei Wang, a 32-year-old Chinese salesman, stepped onto the stage, they fell silent.
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The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
A mathematician is using computers to manufacture award-winning illusions.
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David Copperfield on the Enemies of Art
Artists do something zealots can't stand: They break down divisions between people.
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Interactive Movie - Curveball
If you look directly at the "spinning" ball in this illusion by Arthur Shapiro, it appears to fall straight down. But if you look to one side, the ball appears to curve to one side. The ball appears to swerve because our peripheral vision system cannot process all of its features independently. Instead, our brains combine the downward motion of the ball and its leftward spin to create the impression of a curve. Line-of-sight (or foveal) vision, on the other hand, can extract all the information.
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The Official Reality Dot Appreciation Page
Can you believe your eyes?
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The Magician Who Astounded the World by Conjuring Spirits and Talking with Mummies
Quick: Name the world’s greatest magician, a man who became famous by sawing women in half, making cards rise unassisted from their decks, pulling rabbits from audience member’s coats, and levitating assistants far above the stage. Harry Houdini? David Blaine? You probably didn’t say Howard Thurston...
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Dream Theater - Take the Time
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Why The World Isn’t As It Seems
Take a close look at the floor tiles in the scene below. First, focus your attention on the tile directly below the potted plant, in the shadow of the table. Then, look at the tile to the right, outside of the table. Which of these tiles is brighter? The left one? By Claire Cameron.
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A Geometry of Spatial Illusion
Felice Varini’s environmental paintings can only be experienced in architectural space.
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Motion dazzle: spotting the patterns that help animals outsmart predators on the run
Why does the zebra have stripes? Researchers are investigating whether it is to confuse predators when they're on the move. By Laura Kelley.
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Rick Lax: How I fooled Penn and Teller
Rick Lax is a magic trick inventor, author , and (non-practicing) lawyer from Las Vegas. I was introduced to him because we have the same book editor, Dave Moldawer. On his Facebook page, Rick post...
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What It's Like To Be Buried Alive — And Survive
Harry Houdini famously tried to escape from being buried alive — and famously failed. Recently, escape artist Antony Britton tried to do what Houdini couldn't. He describes the view from down under.
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Kaleidoscope: See Things Differently
Kriss Kyle
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3D Calligraphy by Tolga Girgin
New 3D calligraphy that jump off the page by Turkish graphic designer Tolga Girgin.
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A Mind-Bending Mirror Illusion Turns Circles Into Squares
Just as Snow White taught you, you should never trust a mirror. This piece of sorcery features a mirror that seemingly turns squares into circles, then vice versa. But interestingly, it's not strictly the mirror that is fooling you – it's a combination of the shapes used and your fickle perspective.
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Come
Jain
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Making Impossible Objects with Mirrors
Most of us don’t really understand how mirrors work, which makes for some fun reflective deception. By Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik.
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The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion
A new optical illusion has been discovered, and it’s really quite striking. The strange effect is called the ‘curvature blindness’ illusion, and it’s described in a new paper from psychologist Kohske Takahashi of Chukyo University, Japan.
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