Mind Reading Made Easy! Aneurin Kennerley
Event details
Join us for an interactive and entertaining show mixing magic and world leading science, and see if we can read your mind LIVE with our ‘innovative’ cardboard brain scanner.
Let your curiosity be the guide on this journey through the scientific study of your big beautiful brain with Aneurin Kennerley of the University of York.
Mind-reading, through modern mentalists – think Derren Brown and David Blaine - has remained ever popular. Since the origin of the concept in the late 1800s, claims for the existence of clairvoyance have not been supported by scientific evidence. But although science is yet to prove the ability of the brain to gain information about an object, person, or place through means other than the known senses, research using brain scanning with MRI technology provides demonstrations of thought identification; in some sense, mind reading.
P.S. Did you know you have over 80,000,000,000 brain cells…
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About the speaker
Dr Aneurin James Kennerley (@MagneticDr_K) describes himself as mentalist, scientist and geek. He is a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of York, specialising in magnetic resonance imaging. His research crosses the scientific boundaries in helping us understand brain function in health and disease; on both the molecular and systems level. An obsessive sci-fi nerd (do not ask how many lightsabres he owns!), one of his favourite authors is Arthur C. Clarke who once quoted “magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet”. Finding inspiration, Aneurin fuses magic and science to create entertaining and educational experiences for all.
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