Penn & Teller's cups and ball analyzed (sort of)

[Daniel Z]

According to a current Scientific American blog entry
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ill ... -anything/

Tomorrow (Tue 16th Dec at 8 am PST) the journal PeerJ will host an online live ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with scientists studying Penn & Teller’s ‘cups and balls’ illusion, filmed in their Las Vegas show. You can download the article for free here:
https://peerj.com/articles/19/

[Jonathan Townsend]

I hope somebody is getting useful data from these strange misuses of magic performance.

What works for the working performer live and in person is not designed for laboratory or on-screen or repeated viewing.

[Tom Stone]

You can download the article for free here:
https://peerj.com/articles/19/

As noted before, if you are going to study something, it might be good of that something actually is present.
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[Daniel Z]

Hello Tom.
Quite right. I knew the paper had been discussed but I didn't realize that the announcement regarding the online discussion with the researchers had been previously posted. I must have missed that.
best,
Daniel