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The Art of Deception is a book by Kevin Mitnick that covers the art of social engineering. [1] [2] Part of the book is composed of real stories and examples of how social engineering can be combined with hacking. All, or nearly all, of the examples, are fictional but quite plausible.
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. [1] Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line ...
Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century.
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Methods using more than one book generally used unmodified books, or naturals. These can be distinguished because the mentalist hands the books to the spectator to choose among, and has some sort of riffle or fast flipping of the pages later in the trick. [5] Methods using a modified book, a gimmick, allow free selection of the word from any ...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake is a 2018 book meant to be an all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking written by Steven Novella and co-authored by other hosts of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast – Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is a 2011 book by the British biologist Richard Dawkins, with illustrations by Dave McKean. The book was released on 15 September 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 October 2011 in the United States. [1] [2] [3] It is a graphic science book aimed primarily at children and young adults.
Depending how your mind works, there’s […] Who’s Minnie? She’s the girl who goes missing in the movie’s opening scene when police detective dad Daniel Rourke (Ben Affleck) looks away for ...