Stories by Stephen L. Macknik

Advertisers Exploit Time Illusions to Sell Products

Marketing illusions that make time fly

Fat Tuesday: Illusory Portion Control

Fat Tuesday: Facial Restoration

Fantasia: A Composer s Experience of Synesthesia

Illusion of the Week: Delicious Portrait

A new molecular brain pathway may cause obesity

I just pre-ordered my HAPIfork

The Storytelling of Science

Get Your Beauty (and Slimness) Sleep

The Louisville International Festival of Magic, Illusion and the Unusual

Fat Tuesday: Caloric restriction s days are numbered

Neuroscience in Fiction: Anathem , by Neal Stephenson

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Fat Tuesday: Insidious Weight Bias

An interview with Neal Stephenson

Artists Play With Light and Shadows to Trick the Eye

Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception

Fat Tuesday: Was I addicted to food?

Neuroscience in Fiction: Nexus (Mankind Gets an Upgrade)

Fat Tuesday: My Eyes Are Bigger Than My Stomach-Literally

Penn & Teller's Cups-and-Balls Magic Trick

Ed. Note: Elements of this article first appeared in our book, Sleights of Mind, and a press release about our research article published in PeerJ. Video: Teller--Stuck ball experimental condition"Cups and Balls," a magic illusion in which balls appear and disappear under the cover of cups, is one of the oldest magic tricks in history, with documented descriptions going back to Roman conjurors in 3 B.C...

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