by Anthony Barnhart | Apr 4, 2023 | Magic
I’m a psychologist. Not the kind of psychologist who helps people. I do experiments. Specifically, I am a cognitive psychologist: an experimental psychologist who studies the building blocks of thought with a goal of better understanding the relationships between...
by Mark Setteducati | Apr 4, 2023 | Magic
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...
by Professor Richard Wiseman | Apr 4, 2023 | Magic
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...
by Peter Prevos | Mar 13, 2023 | Data Science, Innovation, Magic, Math, Medicine
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...
by Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal | Mar 1, 2023 | Creativity, Innovation, Magic
Why do certain product and service experiences seem to have that undeniable “wow” factor, while others disap-point customers? Perhaps there’s no better place to turn to than the world of magic. Below, Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal consider that...
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