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Spoon Bender and extraordinary showman, Uri Geller
Do you believe a man can bend a metal spoon with the power of his mind? Most of the people I spoke to for this week's cover story about James Randi and the skeptic community do not.
But Uri Geller, the Israeli self-proclaimed psychic, has been bending spoons for decades--and has been an arch rival of Randi's since the late '60s. Randi's first book, published in 1975, was called The Magic of Uri Geller (later r
Randi has a geek-chic following of intellectual skeptics.
In last week's cover story, about "The Amazing Randi" and the skeptic culture he has helped foster over the past 40 years, we gave you 5,000 words on the man, his adventures, his detractors, and his future (not in the Sylvia Brown/Uri Geller way though, mind you).
But much was cut from the story too, including a few bits editors thought too literary (or not literary enough, maybe?). One of the many joys of the Juice, though, is t
flickr.comOf course Houdini's ghost would carry chains. If the most famous magician in history were to come back from the dead as a publicity-related favor for any group or organization, it would probably be the skeptics.Harry Houdini spent most of his career debunking psychics and scamsters, convincing the world that these people are frauds--not worth the price of admission. He was so dedicated to this end that, nearing his death, he told his wife a secret word and said that if returning fro
