Six hundred years ago, the number of stars you could see would have been about 2400 at any one time. So until optics were invented, the number of stars known were just the brightest ones.
With Galileo’s telescope the number of stars increased to just about 30172. But, even at that just started the real [...]
The desire to perform different kinds of tricks is one that we have all felt. As children we tried coin tricks, shell games, different card tricks. We have all at one time or another desired to be magicians and perform many wonderful magic tricks. The best way to start out with these magic tricks is [...]
The following article is from a series of fun activities-related articles on magic …
There is a special quality about magic that we find really hard to resist. hypnotical wizards waving a staff as beams of light shoot forth. A fantastic floor show in which white tigers appear and disappear captures our imagination as surely as [...]