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Seamus Bellamy / 3:10 pm Mon, Nov 12, 2018

Allow one of the world's greatest magicians to melt your brain

Eric Chien's got some nimble fingers, a shit-ton of showmanship, and a magic trick that'll blow your mind. The trick is so frigging good that Chien won a 2018 Fism Grand Prix award with it. Read the rest

Maggie Koerth-Baker / 12:02 pm Wed, Feb 13, 2013

The science of magic

The old cups-and-balls "shell game" trick so effectively exploits the human brain's ability to be deceived that, even when the cups are see-through, you can still get played. Read the rest