Illusioneering Queen Mary, University of London
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Contained within these videos are all manner of magical miscellanea for your delectation and performance. Each of the magical effects presented here is easy to do at home or in the classroom and will astound your audience. To assist on your path to magical mastery our voluminous videos will help you discover the magic and the secret science behind. Hidden in each of our effects lurks fascinating science and engineering. Our magical marvels are powered by concealed chemistry, paradox producing physics, baffling biology, mysterious mathematics and enchanting engineering. Secret science and engineering has been behind every single magical and conjuring effect throughout history, and now is your opportunity to discover it to help you amaze and amuse, entertain and educate. Matt Parker from Queen Mary, University of London presents this series of videos. Full details, including lesson plans for teachers, are available at www.illusioneering.org. The project was developed by the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London (www.qmul.ac.uk) with funding from the UK National HEStem programme (www.hestem.ac.uk) with support from cs4fn (http://www.cs4fn.org/magic/) and games developer, space explorer and magician Richard Garriott.
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Cutting in Half
A volunteer tries to put a piece of paper in half, only to discover that it's joined itself back into one piece!
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Pepper's Beverage - The Ghost Drink
An object - for example a bottle of pop or a human head - is placed in a box. Amazingly, it becomes transparent or sometimes even vanishes.
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Richard Garriott on Science and Magic
Space tourist and video games guru Richard Garriott demonstrates the ferrofluid bowl he keeps at home, which turns an innocuous black liquid into a spiky mass.
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Scientist or Magician?
What links Magic and Science? This video provides a taster of the different Illusioneering tricks in the series and Prof. Peter McOwan explains how Magic has always been entwined with Science and Technology
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The Baffling Knot Trick
A volunteer has two ropes tied around them. When the ropes are pulled tight they cut right through the volunteer, who then walks away unharmed!
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The Changing Beverage
A bottle containing a green liquid becomes different beverages as it poured from one container to another.