Secrets of the Psychics With James Randi [Purchase the videotape] Can psychics predict the future? Many people seem to think so. Others argue that, in most cases, so-called psychic experiences are really misinterpretations of events. In this episode of NOVA, magician and confirmed skeptic James Randi challenges viewers to weigh the evidence for and against the existence of psychic phenomena. A test of Astrology (1:15 min, 1MB RealVideo) James Randi (15 sec, 30k RealAudio)

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Randi shows some tricks:

"Ratcheting" a key to make it "bend"

Turning your back and covering your eyes

Psychic surgery:

Randi prepares ... plunges in ... and comes out with some giblets.

Uri Geller

Bending a spoon

Want your watch to work

Stumped on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

Faith Healer

Laying on of hands

Randi travels to Russia

Russian TV

Astrology report

Famous Russian psychics of the past:

Telekenisis

Concentrating hard... and again, but this time with feeling.

Get your aura charged here

Russian hand-waver

Testing a psychic who claims to alter brainwaves

Testing some psychics who try to get readings from a photo of Ted Bundy

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• James Randi Educational Foundation

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