I have created a new variation of the famous Beuchet Chair illusion! Details here richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/new…
with thanks to Koestler Parapsych

How do you turn a tea towel into a chicken? Join Professor Richard Wiseman for this free lecture as he demonstrates some of the world's greatest optical illusions, and explores the secret psychology of magic. Register for your ticket now: royalsociety.org/science-events…

This was lots of fun …. Hope you enjoy it.

If you are near Linlithgow today I am talking about how to change your life by magic at 2pm. Do come. Fun will be had.

This is the secret side of inventing and making magic. Just one of my many boxes of things that will come in handy one day.

If you are in Edinburgh, then I am talking magic and illusion tonight at the Edin Science Festival Edinburgh Science edinburghscience.co.uk/event/the-secr…

If you are into magic, Talking Pictures TV has a 1950s doc about The Magic Circle starting right now!

My pal Chris French 🇺🇦 has a great new book out on the truth about weird paranormal stuff ! Check it out here amazon.co.uk/Science-Weird-…

Somebody, somewhere, is furious

The results are clear. You need at least three bananas to make a bunch. Big thanks to everyone who voted.

Can you help resolve an argument ? How many bananas do you need for them to be seen as a bunch?

Are you a great maths teacher or tutor? We need online tutors to increase number & diversity of excellent mathematicians. We'll have 200 terrific new students, able & motivated, who we'll tutor for FREE. Goal is to tutor long term & put them on the path to Further Maths A level.

'Everyone felt that it was up to them to step up to the mark'… with all this talk of the latest moon landing, it's worth revisiting when we heard from Richard Wiseman about the 'Apollo mindset'
bps.org.uk/psychologist/e…

It was fun being a guest on the latest episode of Infinite Monkey Cage about magic and illusion, presented by Brian Cox & @robinince Listen here.. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Delighted to see Professor Richard Wiseman’s brilliant first children’s non-fiction book, MAGIC YOUR MIND HAPPY, flagged in the Bookseller magazine’s round-up for May.

Lots of festival appearances already booked, including Hay, Edinburgh Science and more.

On Thurs I will be at the NI Science Festival talking about magic, psychic stuff and the impossible. It's free and fun will be had. Do come. nisciencefestival.com/events/richard…

I am giving a talk about psychology stuff ! Please come along and join me.

Now that’s how you exhibit a jar of pickled onions.

My pals Prof. Adrian M. Owen OBE and Roger Highfield are doing a study - get involved if you can!

Our final episode of the season is all about the science of friendship. Enjoy !