How Magic Helps Scientists Avoid Blind Spots and Think Outside of the Box
Wilhelm von Osten was a mathematician and schoolteacher living in Germany in the early 1900’s. He was also an amateur horse trainer. At that time, people were becoming interested in how intelligent animals were. Von Osten experimented to see if he could teach...Creativity and Conjuring: Does learning magic help people be more creative?
In my experience, there are two main reasons why magicians tend to be highly creative. First, coming up with ideas for magical happenings involves imagining a world that isn’t constrained by reality. For instance, producing something from an apparently empty box...
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Magic and Science
The magician introduces three cups and some little balls. She waves her magic wand and commands the balls to ma- terialise from her hands and rematerialise under the cups. The props seem possessed by supernatural powers as they appear, disappear and penetrate solid...
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