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Magician Paul Daniels brightens up a charity event…

Magician Paul Daniels brightens up a charity event…

Paul Daniels officially opened a new sensory room for Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres. Based at All Saints Primary School, Norreys Avenue, the charity helps children with additional needs and disabilities, and welcomed the guests on Tuesday last week.

Liz McDaniel, group development officer for Dingley, said: “Paul Daniels enjoyed learning a lot more about our work when he visited to open Wokingham’s new sensory room. He thought the equipment, which has been sponsored by The Lord’s Taverners, was ‘magical’. –

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For Young Offenders, a New Confidence Game…

For Young Offenders, a New Confidence Game…

By John Leland for the New York Times…

At the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, shrill buzzers announce the movement of sliding doors, and visitors leave all metal objects in lockers by the entrance. The residents are as young as 10 years old, awaiting trial on charges ranging from trespassing to murder.

Once a week, David Roth and Ricky Smith teach them how to be better deceivers.

Mr. Roth, 62, is a professional magician who has performed coin tricks on David Letterman’s show. At Crossroads, where coins are considered a potential weapon, he works strictly with cards.

“Watch and learn,” Mr. Roth told a small group of boys the other day, as he placed a deck of cards on a wooden game table.

Louis Watts, the facility’s executive director, interrupted to address one of the students. “Pull your pants up,” he said…

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How Do Magicians Manufacture Reality?

How Do Magicians Manufacture Reality?

A TED report, broadcast by NPR on WUNC..

The power of the placebo has been consistently proven in medicine. Magician Eric Mead extends that idea to magic, pulling off a gruesome trick that’s so convincing, you’ll cringe.

About Eric Mead

Eric Mead is a magician, mentalist and comedian. He’s the author of Tangled Web, a collection of magic and mentalism taken from his personal repertoire.

Transcript:

GUY RAZ, HOST:

Do you think you’re a good liar?

ERIC MEAD: I’m a great liar.

RAZ: This is Eric Mead and he’s a magician.

MEAD: The most important skill of good magic is not sleight-of-hand or misdirection, it is the ability to lie convincingly…

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