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Alex Dobrenko • 11 cards
First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
he’s actually incredibly boring: a fat clown with one protracted trick. His show consists of an hour of screechy, hectoring bullshit: a pudgy middle-aged right-winger sobbing into his shirt about how powerless he feels. It’s an incredible performance, but it belongs in some kind of zoo, not on a news channel. But that’s the Murdoch way.
Charlie Brooker • I Can Make You Hate
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Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Had Mr. Dircks's [original] patent agent, in his searches after patents, ever come across the toy invented in Paris? Because it is substantially [the same as] the ghost apparatus and produced that illusion.Pepper never received an answer to these questions, but thedifficulty in obtaining their patent had convinced him that if Dircks didn't know of
... See moreTeller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
He also performed Unshuffled, an effect he created that bowled over Penn & Teller on their television show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. The deck’s edge is drawn on with black marker and, after shuffling a few times, the scribbles magically transform into letters that spell out the spectator’s chosen card. He also performed Namerology, my favorit
... See moreIan Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Jean Robert-Houdin was famous for the opinion that a magician is actually just "an actor playing the part of a magician."