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4:09
Zohreh Davoudi
Are we living in a simulation?
3:20
Marco Tempest
A swarm of mini drones makes ... magic!
14:21
Derren Brown
Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
4:15
Bence Nanay
The "End of History" Illusion
12:20
David Kwong
The science of illusion
8:42
Eric Dyer
The forgotten art of the zoetrope
16:10
Petter Johansson
Do you really know why you do what you do?
10:05
Pico Iyer
The beauty of what we'll never know
12:43
R. Luke DuBois
Insightful human portraits made from data
16:33
Tasos Frantzolas
Everything you hear on film is a lie
6:57
Mileha Soneji
Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
13:11
Helder Guimarães
A magical search for a coincidence
3:53
Andrew Vanden Heuvel
The moon illusion
7:16
Mark Changizi
Why do we see illusions?
6:35
Marco Tempest
A cyber-magic card trick like no other
6:31
Marco Tempest
A magical tale (with augmented reality)
5:07
Marco Tempest
The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
14:19
Ben Goldacre
Battling bad science
9:05
Eric Mead
The magic of the placebo
23:34
VS Ramachandran
3 clues to understanding your brain
12:28
Jonathan Drori
What we think we know
13:25
Michael Shermer
Why people believe weird things
31:08
Lennart Green
Close-up card magic with a twist
14:33
Al Seckel
Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think
19:49
Keith Barry
Brain magic
16:15
Virginia Postrel
On glamour
21:48
Dan Dennett
The illusion of consciousness
14:51
Vik Muniz
Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string
4:44
James Burchfield
Playing invisible turntables
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