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Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”

In this video Arthur Benjamin calculates squares of 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers faster than you can do it on a calculator. I know. I tried to keep up while watching the video. Audience members give him their birthdate and he tells them what day [...]

From Gizmodo.com. Thanks to Blackmage004 for the tip.

Now let’s repeat the non-conformists oath: I promise to be different. I promise to be unique. I promise not to repeat things other people say!
-Steve Martin from his comedy album, Wild and Crazy Guy

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Man on Wire won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature this year. The subject of the film, Philippe Petit, leapt up on stage while the filmmakers were giving their speeches. When it was his turn, he said he wanted to “thank the Academy for believing in magic” as he vanished a coin that he [...]

I am trying to learn to juggle plungers. On YouTube there are some videos of people who already know how.

Snirt in Whately, Massachusetts

There was an Internet hoax going around that a woman said an elephant was larger than the Moon on a television game show. People laughed. Well now I have proof that not only are elephants larger than the Moon, but they are also larger than the Sun.