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205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

The Michael Shermer Show

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Conjuring Magic

A really good conjurer can almost force you to think it supernatural. But they're honest enough to admit that i's not yet. Daron brown is especially good at this, and his shows are so elaborate you just cannot figure out where the trick is. He twisted a spoon in a way with his mind that it's impossible he could not have twisted it physically. You take a spoon, and then you sort of twist it this way rather than that way. It's kind of hard to show. But anyway, it's super simpleand so as he's telling me the story, i take the spoon next me, and i pull it beneath the table, and i do the little move

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