This week I spent a couple of days at the Magic Castle in Hollywood with my friend and master magician Andrew Mayne and five other magicians. The theme of the weeklong show was "Science versus Magic." ...

This week I spent a couple of days at the Magic Castle in Hollywood with my friend and master magician Andrew Mayne and five other magicians. The theme of the weeklong show was "Science versus Magic." ...

One of the biggest debates among people who like scifi — aside from the Star Wars vs. Star Trek thing — is where to draw the line between science and magic. Some adhere to the idea that magic is ...

Magicians have one job: To exploit what we don’t know. Whether we’re watching David Blaine withstand a million-volt jolt of electricity or Darren Criss rip bodies apart, we’re entertained because we ...

Children and adults who kicked off the summer at the Magic of Science Fair and Family Festival on Saturday at TUNE Center at Harford Community. It was a day of fun interactive activities and ...

In yesterday's post about the limits of physics, I noted that the ultimate problem is philosophical-- the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in Eugene Wigner's phrase. That is, physics, like ...