This "amazing" magician's educational foundation debunks paranormal claims
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James Randi and the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge ...  May 23, 2012 - 6 min - Uploaded by FFreeThinkerRandi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi  began his ...
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About James Randi - JREF - James Randi Educational Foundation  In 1977, he was nominated as "Visiting Magician of the Year" by the Academy of ... claims of the supernatural, occult, and paranormal powersin particular his ... celebrated MacArthur fellow, and truly amazing magician, your studies have ... Randi has combined entertainment and education while debunking charlatans who...
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One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge - Wikipedia  The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. ... Claims that cannot be tested experimentally are not eligible for the Challenge. .... In an appearance on ITV's This Morning, on September 27, 2011, magician Paul Zenon challenged...
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James Randi: debunking the king of the debunkers - Telegraph  Dec 9, 2014 ... The 87-year-old debunker of the paranormal was Richard Dawkins before ... Originally a magician and escapologist known as The Amazing Randi he .... to wonder about his educational foundation, the JREF, which claims tax...
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James Randi - Wikipedia  James Randi is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). ... He began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing...
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TODAYS TRIVIA-CLOUDEIGHT INTERNET START PAGE  This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her. Who was Merlin ... Answer #3. Martin Luther believed this German magician and astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers.
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MAGICKAL CHILDE - Magickal Formulary Spellbook  From the shadows, called my name. ... I do mostly healing magick for the highest good of all and if at all possible, ... After reading cards for him by the pool at the Marlin Beach Hotel one ... Being from North Carolina she could hear my NC accent. ... Just as the lady was getting laid into by a very fed up and highly offended...
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall  Debunking Mandela Effects
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Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion  Apr 20, 2009 ... One of the first tricks in Penn and Teller's Las Vegas show begins when ... a puff on a cigarette, closely examined, can disintegrate into smoke and mirrors. ... "Magicians were taking advantage of these cognitive illusions long before ... it's done"reacted with outrage and even threats of physical violence.
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UFO Casebook: Angels, UFOs, and Psychic  In one instance; I had finished doing what I thought was a great psychic ... naval base, filming a documentary segment on the fleet for airing on Russian television. ...... This is an e-mail which I sent to the Discovery Channel on August 18 2003. I enjoyed your program entitled," Nefertiti Resurrected,". ...... Sci-Fi cable network.
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Science In My Fiction  sff  I took to it like I took to a beating: With my guard up and my head down. .... in her chest, she has a computer to regulate and monitor each of her six sensor-types, ... there are more electrons in excited energy levels than there are in the ground state. ... Also: you can't see the laser beam traveling from the source to the target.
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did the miracles of jesus really happen - Memphis School of Preaching  David Hume (1771-1776) was a Scottish philosopher who would have answered, ... claim to prove that miracles are superstitious delusion you will have to ... antisupernatural denial of miracles, critical views of the Bible, and the practice of ..... sudden: because such a kind of death, though more unusual than any other, has.
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The Role of the Supernatural in the Discovery of EEGs - The Atlantic  Nov 23, 2014 ... After Hans Berger received an uncanny telegram, he spent years trying to measure psychic energy. ... to a much simpler goalhe wanted to record the electrical signals of the brain. ... "These first recordings of the human EEG are remarkably ... on the galvanometer string captured on photographic paper.
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Ill Um in Ism - Scribd  The escapologist and magician Harry Houdini took his stage name from Robert-Houdin ... Performances we would now recognize as conjuring have probably been practiced .... It is commonly used by children's magicians and mentalists. are based on ... At one point. he billed himself as the "King of Cards". including fake...
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"The American people don't believe anything until they see it on ...  May 17, 2010 ... it is very true and I now believe it is "they don't believe anything unless it is on wikipedia". I have actually seen some american people using...
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Magician Among the Spirits - Wikipedia  Magician Among the Spirits is the tenth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church, released in August 1996. The album title was inspired by a book written by Harry Houdini and C. M. Eddy, Jr. (uncredited) in 1924, in which the famed magician discussed his investigations of spirit ... Although initially a two-man project, the new material saw input from new...
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Amazon.com: The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother ...  Annie Kagan is not a medium or a psychic, she did not die and come back to life; in fact, when .... "Greek philosophers even had a name for the people who somehow ... And whether you're a skeptic or a true believer, the book will powerfully engage you. .... I don't know whether to credit Annie Kagan or Billy Fingers with the...
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Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research ...  Jul 6, 2008 ... Just as vision scientists study visual art and illusions to elucidate the ... Magic is one of the oldest and most widespread forms of .... be defined as drawing the audience's attention away from the 'method' ... reality hidden in the magician's hand, but most spectators perceive it ...... Johnson, G. Sleights of Mind.
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Magic Johnson - NNDB.com  A local sportswriter dubbed him "Magic" after watching Johnson dominate a high school game. His mother disapproved, thinking the nickname sounded blasphemous. ... his high school to the state championship, then went to Michigan State and ... In retirement, he established The Magic Johnson Foundation to fundraise for...
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Dai Vernon - Wikipedia  Dai Vernon (June 11, 1894  August 21, 1992), aka The Professor, was a Canadian magician. ... For years afterward, Vernon used the title The Man Who Fooled Houdini in his advertisements. ... over the United States of America looking for card cheats, and anyone who might know anything about sleight-of-hand with cards.
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A Magician Among the Spirits - De Montfort University  to riper years of experience I was brought to a realization ... The day before he underwent an operation he said to me: ... He died the next day. ..... Spring, 1924. H. ... 2. A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS. With the increase of interest came a proportionate in- ..... Mrs. Kane's "confession" was published in the Sunday.