Magic and Illusion

The best magicians know that they don't need big distractions to trick what you think you see, reports Benedict Carey in the New York Times .  

Show Me the Money Here's a great, visual and easy magic trick. And it's about money. You insert a piece of paper into the magic device and it comes out as...  

December 8, 2005 -- LIES, damn lies and manipulated statistics. Just as the Pensions Commission's second report was making its way through the printing presses, Gordon...  

November 1, 2007 -- Although this is my eighth year in classroom, I very much appreciated your time-saving piece "11 'Magic' Tricks for New Teachers" (August...  

Up the Magic Creek with a Paddle Here's a low cost prop that you can purchase from a magic store and versions of this trick are commonly found in beginning magic...  

It's good to be home. That's the sentiment of Minot High School head football coach Barry Holmen and the rest of the Magicians as they return home to Duane Carlson Stadium for their season opener tonight ...  

But he blames modern TV executives for wanting to make programmes revealing how to do magic tricks without coming up with new ideas. ...  

Magician Was "Father of Movie Special Effects" It's so appropriate that the man who is considered the father of movie special effects, Georges Melies, began his career as a magician. And...  

by Stuart Dredge Jamba has announced the launch of five mobile magic trick applications, developed by a company called Trixcell. They're not games, as such. ...  

Nearly 300 magicians from around the country will be in Fort Collins this weekend for the 15th annual Magic in the Rockies convention.  

“The opportunity to take HomeLogic to more Dealers and add immediately to their bag of tricks and bottom line is absolutely a marketing and sales person’s ...  

A magician does his tricks by distracting the audience from the spot where he carries out his magic. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has not needed to ...  

You'd never know it from the media's Obama worshipers covering it, but this week's Democratic National Convention was a three-ring circus complete with an assortment of sword swallowers, clowns and magicians.  

... audiences scratching their heads with his mix of magic and comedy and he uses body language and subliminal messaging to work his mind-reading tricks. ...  

In truth, the grinning, nodding and handshaking ways of all candidates are nothing but political magic tricks; they are illusions meant to convince the ...