by Ricky Smith | Feb 12, 2014 | Gibecière, Magic News
Gibecière 17, Volume 9, Number 1 Winter 2014 Gibecière number 17 is a fantastic issue, and we are very proud of it. We begin this issue with the tenth and final installment of the excellent and enlightening “Investigation into Magic in Japan after the Opening of...
by Ricky Smith | Sep 10, 2013 | Gibecière, Magic News
Gibecière Vol. 8, No. 2 Now shipping! Summer 2013 issue of our flagship publication Gibecière! Our biggest issue yet (at 288 pages and nearly 2 lbs) opens with a long-anticipated piece by Barry Wiley on the Piddingtons. Syd Piddington was a magician who was captured...
by Noah Levine | Feb 13, 2013 | Ask Alexander News, Magic News
We are always looking for new ways to make Ask Alexander (our two and a half million page database) more accessible and easy to use. Here are two new projects that will make you want to go and play on Alex right now. Instant Translation One of the library’s...
by Noah Levine | Dec 14, 2011 | Magic News
Our dear friend the brilliant magician Luis Piedrahita recently told us about La biblioteca digital de ilusionismo (Digital Library of Illusion) – a fascinating digital resource for magicians and scholars. At the moment, this library offers access to 62 fully scanned...
by Ricky Smith | Dec 1, 2011 | Curious and New
A pretty interesting method for reading someone’s mind is the subject of this video. Basically the researchers have studied the brain activity using an MRI while showing the participants a number of videos. They then used the brain activity they collected while...