David Copperfield Talks Technology and Magic History
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
World-famous magician David Copperfield explains the surprising connection between magic and technology. Plus: learn about how ducklings get a speed boost when they swim in a line behind their mother.
More from David Copperfield:
- Pick up "David Copperfield's History of Magic": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/David-Copperfields-History-of-Magic/David-Copperfield/9781982112912
- Website: https://www.davidcopperfield.com/
- Follow @D_Copperfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/D_Copperfield
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidcopperfield
Ducklings get a speed boost when they swim in a line behind their mother by Cameron Duke
- Conover, Emily. (2021, October 20). “Here’s the Physics of Why Ducklings Swim in a Row behind Their Mother.” Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-why-ducklings-swim-row-behind-mother-duck-waves-energy
- University of Strathclyde. (2021, October 7). Riding the waves keeps ducks in a row. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2021-10-ducks-row.html
- Yuan, Z.-M., Chen, M., Jia, L., Ji, C., & Incecik, A. (2021). Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 928. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.820
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year! You're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:09.0 | Today you learn about the surprising connection between magic and technology, with one of the most famous and |
| 0:14.1 | successful magicians in history David Copperfield. You'll also learn about how ducklings |
| 0:19.2 | get a speed boost when they swim in a line behind their mother. |
| 0:22.3 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. boost when they swim in a line behind their mother. |
| 0:22.7 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.6 | David Copperfield is probably the best known stage |
| 0:29.4 | magician today. |
| 0:30.9 | He's won more than 21 Emmy Awards, holds 11 Guinness World Records, his face is on |
| 0:36.9 | postage stamps in six different countries, and he was literally named a living |
| 0:41.8 | legend by the US Library of Congress. But before his name |
| 0:46.0 | made it into the history books, he began collecting his own pieces of magic history |
| 0:51.2 | in a secret museum accessible only to VIPs. |
| 0:57.5 | That is until he made it accessible to everyone in a new book. David Copperfield's History of Magic offers a tour of Illusion History |
| 1:07.0 | through profiles of 28 groundbreaking magicians |
| 1:11.0 | and photos of their one- a kind devices and set pieces. |
| 1:15.1 | David told us how these pieces aren't just parts of magic history. |
| 1:18.9 | They play a role in the history of technology too. |
| 1:22.4 | And to better understand this untold history, we figured |
| 1:25.6 | we'd start at the beginning. So we asked him, what's the earliest evidence of a |
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