The Hand Sanitizer Trick We Wish We'd Known About Sooner originally appeared on Parade. It’s happened to all of us at least once: You left the house without applying deodorant. The frustration once ...

A collection of quick and clever hand tricks that are easy to learn and fun to show off, perfect for surprising friends ...

Sleight of hand expert Ben Seidman is back with Vanity Fair to review more sleight of hand tricks, pickpocketing and psychological magic in films including 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,' 'Shade ...

A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world. By Veronique Greenwood The coin is in the illusionist’s left hand, now it’s in the ...

When your laundry pile runneth over, it's tempting to shove every last item inside the drum of your washing machine to just get it all done, but you probably already know that's not the right way to ...

Psychologists used a sleight-of-hand trick called the French drop, in which an object appears to vanish when a spectator assumes it is taken from one hand by the hidden thumb of the other hand. The ...

Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ignore things that are ...

To help pay for his undergraduate education, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin had an unusual summer job: cruise ship magician. “I was that guy who comes out at dinnertime and does random magic for you,” he says.

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It’s happened to all of us at least once: You left the house without applying deodorant. The frustration once you realize you forgot to put it on is fast and strong, and sometimes there’s nothing you ...