Sleights of Mind

Black Art in Dance

Stephen Macknik — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:43:53 +0000

Sleights of Mind features a wonderful group of French magicians, The Ostrowsky family, who produce a show called “Omar Pasha“. Its a wonderful and mystical show in which the protagonist magically manipulates objects and people on stage. Everything appears and disappears to the notes of Bolero. The inevitable decapitations and recapitations proceed seamlessly, and right before your very eyes, as you watch from the audience. To find out more, read Sleights of Mind.

But in the meantime, check out this related new dance video by Fighting Gravity, from their America’s Got Talent! appearance, in which a group of dancer’s uses magical Black Art methods in a new and exciting dance exhibition.

Fighting Gravity — America’s Got Talent! 2010

Book Tour!

Stephen Macknik — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:54:22 +0000

Our book tour has launched! We signed copies of sleights of mind in the worth publishers booth at the society for neuroscience’s annual conference in San Diego last monday-Tuesday. On Thursday night, we were at the new York academy of sciences, for a joint presentation with James (aka the amaz!ng) randy, skeptic extraordinaire and founder of the one million dollar paranormal challenge, for anybody who can demonstrate psychic abilities in a controlled environment. Randi spoke about the dangers of making unfounded assumptions, both as spectators of magic shows and in life. Some of randi’s recent endeavors include debunking claims from homeopathic medicine. I highly recommend watching randi’s Ted lecture of 200?, in which he swallowed a “lethal” dose of homeopathic sleep pills onstage. A great stunt, here is the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html

Come see us in San Diego at SFN!

Stephen Macknik — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:27:49 +0000

Our next appearance will be at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego (Publisher’s Row) on Monday, Nov 15th at 11am-12am. See you there!

Attend our lecture with James Randi in NYC, Thurs Nov 18th!

Stephen Macknik — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:25:48 +0000

Come see our public appearance with James Randi (The Amaz!ng Randi) at the New York Academy of Science next Thursday ovember 18th at World Trade Center 7 in New York City. Its sponsored by Scientific American. Afterwards we’ll have a book signing of our new book Sleights of Mind, as well as our cover story in Scientific American Mind (Mind over Magic), and a reception. Online registration: http://www.nyas.org/mindovermagic.

The Scientific American Book Club reviews Sleights of Mind

Stephen Macknik — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:24:40 +0000

“Sleights of Mind makes brain science so much fun, you’ll swear the authors are as clever as Houdini.”

http://www.sciambookclub.com/pages/nm/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1068015352

The Scientist reviews Sleights of Mind

Stephen Macknik — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:14:57 +0000

The Scientist reporter Vanessa Schipani published a great review of Sleights of Mind today. We made the top of the homepage: http://www.the-scientist.com/

ScienceNews review of Sleights of Mind

Stephen Macknik — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:20:14 +0000

Laura Sanders of ScienceNews just wrote a terrific review of Sleights of Mind! See it here:
http://www.sciencenews.org