optical illusions

Interactive games and intricate experiments designed to leave viewers rethinking how much faith they are willing to put in everything from memory to multitasking. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to reveal the incredible inner-workings of the brain.

Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using tissue engineering to harness the body's natural powers to grow skin, muscle, body parts and vital organs, even hearts." -- video.nationalgeographic.com.

Returns for a third season of interactive experiments that test how easily the brain can be fooled, uncovering the surprising nature of how we process information, feel emotions, and perceive the world around us. Host and wonder junkie Jason Silva and Deception specialist Apollo Robbins explore a world where time slows down, reality is an illusion and things aren't always as they seem, the human brain.

Includes step-by-step instructions on performing magic tricks that are illusions.

Contains instructions for drawing thirty-seven optical illusions and explains how they work.

Explore the secrets behind more than 30 of the world's most amazing visual puzzles, tricks, and illusions, and then learn how to make your own.

In this mind-bending book, each puzzle is framed as a question that prompts young readers to look for or do something specific and even includes an explanation of how the illusion works, so kids won't be confused for too long.

A collection of photographic visual puzzles, encouraging the reader to decipher optical illusions.

A collection of 365 optical illusions with instructions for witnessing the effect and a description of what one should experience.