“Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.” Dave Trott, …

Occasional essays on the art, science and psychology of deception and counterdeception.
“Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.” Dave Trott, …
It was a pleasure to speak recently about my work in deception and magic with Laura Militello and Brian Moon, …
“No imitation can be perfect without being the real thing.” Jones (1942) Thirty men and women in military uniforms sit …
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams, Photographer, 1902-1984. Who would you prefer to interact with online? A …
“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, In: Davis (1989, p. 18) …
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.”[Original colloquial spelling] Billings (1874, p. …
“Such things as we being bewitched doo imagine, have no truth at all either of action or essence, beside the …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Ironically, this interlude results from a writing course I have been tied-up with over the …
Castle Defences The Japanese have an expression: 能ある鷹は爪を隠すNou aru taka wa tsume-o kakusu. It translates loosely to “The talented hawk …
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” René Magritte, …