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A PhD candidate in physics at Columbia University, Alex Stone is also part of the underground magic circuit, an exclusive community whose members convene regularly in secret clubs and coffee shops to swap tips and develop new illusions. But he has some learning to do. Determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, Stone embarks on a personal quest to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world, and become a master magician.
In Fooling Houdini we journey through a strange and colourful subculture of obsessive, brilliant and dysfunctional geniuses - blind card-sharps, street-hustlers and Las Vegas showmen - learning the principles and history of some of the greatest tricks ever performed. Seeking answers to broader questions about the limits of perception, the nature of deception, decision making, and the hidden flaws in our cognition, Stone helps us understand what happens as we attempt to distinguish reality from illusion, and discovers the links between magic and psychology, physics and even crime.
From back-street scams to psychology laboratories to the Magic Olympics, Fooling Houdini reveals the mysterious world of magic as never before, and opens up a new way of seeing our world, and ourselves.
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