harry houdini

Very interesting BBC doc on mentalism, which covers the history of the art as well as spiritualism, psychics, etc. Interviewees include Randi, Geller, Derren Brown, David Berglas, and many others. Part 1 of 6 on Youtube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q_EjG-Oa3hE

http://www.themagicwandshop.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=260 sells healing crystals, guardian angel pyramids, and "Dolphin Ascension" music and yet they use an image of Harry Houdini on their webpage. One of the pioneers in the field of debunking nonsense is being used to hawk flimflam.

Found this item in the latest Skeptical Enquirer: http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-04/strange-world.html Read the account of this interesting illusion by Houdini, but could not come to terms with a certain aspect of the trick. When Houdini switched Doyle's piece of paper with his secret words...

In the last issue, Randi treats us to a rare recording of Harry Houdini's voice, in Randi's words "his speech introducing the Water Torture Cell illusion that he originated and featured in his final theater tour in 1929!" Hmmm, as a fellow student of Houdini, I grew up thinking that Houdini...