A crumpled ball of paper that takes on a life of its own and leads the apparently perplexed magician on a playful dance -- it's a simple but poetic and engaging scene.

In 2019, the International Brotherhood of Magicians convention was held in Scottsdale, and Ploeger took first prize in the Close-Up Magic youth division. Now 20 and an ASU student, Ploeger aspires ...

With the emergent forms of A.I., they argue, we have created an intelligence that can yield answers the way an oracle might or a Magic 8 Ball: through processes that are invisible to us ...

One magic trick that Gloria Dea (1922-2023) did recently, before a small audience of fans gathered in her bedroom, was to apply lipstick (Wet n Wild’s Honolulu Is Calling, to be exact) without ...

My 10- and seven-year-old sons, both future Magicians, just say independently, “Weird” and “Freaky.” And these kids don’t mind anime. They touch on the most commonly used descriptor: creepy.

Kuhn was a magician before he was an academic. “My life was just about magic, I bored my parents to bed,” he told me on a recent video call after the Vegas conference.

Two metro Detroit magicians took home first and second place awards this summer for close-up magic at the largest magic competition in the country. Now they can't wait to take their tricks even ...

Magic’s about understanding—and then manipulating—how viewers digest the sensory information. ... David P. Abbott was an Omaha magician who invented the basis of my ball trick back in 1907.

The Magic Circle is trying to track down its first female member, who duped her way into the all-male magicians' society by disguising herself as a teenage boy named Raymond. Sophie Lloyd was ...

At the “magic Olympics,” magicians from around the world compete to be deemed the world’s best. To win, they must fool each other. HISTORY & CULTURE; How does a magician trick other magicians?