Don’t Underestimate Monkeys!

And us silly humans thought we could confine monkeys in a glass enclosure in a zoo for viewing by members of the public. Here's a smart monkey in China who used tools he could find to circumvent that. To think I was recently only just next to a cheetah separated only by glass. If cheetahs… Continue reading Don’t Underestimate Monkeys!

Learning Points from Marco Tempest’s TED Talk on “A Cyber-Magic Card Trick Like No Other”

I like to watch magic shows, sometimes for the reason that I can figure out how the trick is done. Marco Tempest's TED talk, or rather, cyber-magic show, while easy to figure out(most of it anyway), is entertaining all the same. https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_a_cyber_magic_card_trick_like_no_other So he uses the standard tricks like pack manipulation, card manipulation, double lifting,… Continue reading Learning Points from Marco Tempest’s TED Talk on “A Cyber-Magic Card Trick Like No Other”