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A corker of a good idea

September 24th, 2007

This is very clever….

Prof Richard Wiseman has written a book called Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives. As part of the publicity – and as a stroke of marketing genius – he’s been releasing some great YouTube videos.

This is “Corkology”:

A month later, to coincide with the book’s release, he released a clip showing how it was done.

Even more impressive, I think, is the Colour-changing Card Trick:

There are more videos on the Quirkology site.

These have been all over YouTube, but I managed to miss them. I came across Richard Wiseman’s work through the (rather good) Skepticality podcast.

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