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How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind
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welcome to the offices of the skeptic
Society and skeptic magazine I'm Michael
Shermer the director and today we're in
our library here with our spoon bending
collection we had a spoon bending party
that we hosted here a few years ago for
a TV show here are some of the results
of our telekinetic psychic spoon benders
from that day and so I thought I'd show
you in tribute to the amazing Randi he
couldn't be here today but he's here in
his abstention with his little
handcuffed doll that we will perform for
the amazing one while he sits there and
watches as Randy likes to say there's
half a dozen different ways to bend a
spoon I suppose you could do it
telekinetically using psychic power but
let's see if there's some other ways
that we could do it I mean for starters
you just take a spoon and basically you
get you stroke the the neck of the spoon
such that you allegedly heat up the
atoms inside of it and it causes it to
bend and if we stroke stroke stroke just
like that ever so gently you can kind of
see it's starting to bend there and we
got a little bit of a band it's you know
not dramatic it's the kind of thing you
could do at a restaurant fairly easily
and of course all you do when you pick
it up is you just take your thumb and
bend it down and then you've already
prepped it and that's pretty much how
you bend a spoon forks are a little
trickier what what we like to do is try
to bend the tine of a fork because it's
a little it's a little dangerous you
know because it's sharp so we want to do
now I need you to concentrate on causing
the left tine of the fork to bend so
just think Bend Bend Bend Bend there it
goes it's starting to go it's starting
to go look at that look at that look at
that look at that I'm just kind of
flicking it down just flicking the time
down look at that there it is it went do
you see that look at that now of course
you could do that telekinetically but
let's just say I think I probably did it
the same way I did the spoon now we can
take a another spoon and I'll show you
ahead of time it's not prepped and I'm
not going to bend it with my thumb ahead
of time I'm just going to prep it just
sort of think just kind of think warm
thoughts about it just sort of barely
hang on to it there and stroke to stroke
the neck of it and push ever so gently
on the bowl
the spoon you can kind of see it
starting to get a little bit mushy can
you see that I'm hardly pushing it it up
just barely touching it just like that
Israeli spoon bender used to do and I
can kind of feel it boy the atoms are
getting very warm there and let's see if
we can just see make that thing just
melt just melt right in your fingers
like that again you could do this
telekinetically but maybe there's some
other tricks up our sleeves there up
there goes the genuine bent spoon now of
course you might say well sure Murr come
on that's cheap cutlery so we're going
to try to see if we can bend this hard
steel bar using just our psychic powers
so I need you to concentrate now on
causing this end to bend up watch Bend
Bend Bend come on with me think Bend
Bend Bend oh we can I can feel the atoms
starting to heat up just from the very
gentle friction I'm causing the quantum
mechanics effects there to go using the
telekinetic power to cause this bar to
Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend well there it
goes Wow
of course as Randy likes to say if
you're using telekinetic power to bend
steel you're doing it the hard way
