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February 16, 2007

Strange But True!

Q. Maybe you don't have psychic powers to bend a spoon, but bending a piece of iron wire without touching it is another thing. Demo guaranteed to spellbind your audience!

A. You dangle the foot-long thin wire from your hand and bend it. Then so everyone can see it, you place it on an overhead projector. “Now everybody really concentrate.” Within minutes, right before everyone's eyes, the metal quivers slightly, then more, say Georges Charpak and Henri Broch in “Debunked!” It twists around and gradually all by itself takes the form of the letter Z. Wows and gasps!


 
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