Rich Tackenberg: A psychic in West Hollywood
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we take a look at the mysterious and deceptive world of psychics.
Part 1: Rich Tackenberg is skeptical when a psychic tells him there’s something wrong with his car.
Part 2: Science journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik to get a better idea of how psychics, like the one from Rich Tackenberg’s story, operate.
Rich Tackenberg is: a happily married gadget geek, a new homeowner, an SNL apologist, an Apple fanboy, a recent convert to tea, a dog owner, a recovering people-pleaser, a comedy nerd, an LA resident, a New York native, a snob about disposable pens, and (most importantly) a big fan of lists.
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik are award-winning neuroscientists and professors at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. They are best known for their studies on perception, illusions, and attentional misdirection in stage magic. They produce the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, now in its 13th edition, and are the authors of the international bestseller Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions and Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles.
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| 0:32.1 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:35.2 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.9 | I felt... I felt... I was so... |
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| 0:49.3 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Story Collider where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:59.9 | I'm your host, Catherine Wu, and this week our story is about psychics. Now look, I know what some of you |
| 1:07.1 | must be thinking. This is a science podcast. What are psychics doing here? I promise I'll |
| 1:13.2 | explain more in a minute. Later on the podcast, we'll even be delving into the science of visiting |
| 1:17.8 | psychics. Let's just put a pin in that for now. But come on, while I've got you here, |
| 1:24.6 | let's admit it. There can be a kind of guilty pleasure in this sort of stuff, right? |
| 1:29.7 | I mean, I'm not much into psychics myself, but I've always been a fan of personality tests. |
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