Reading Time: < 1 minute Captain Disillusion always provides a rational explanation for things that appear magical.
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Captain Disillusion Explains the Secret Behind an Impossible Staircase
Reading Time: < 1 minute The amazing thing, as always, is how Captain Disillusion proves the original video is a hoax.
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Captain Disillusion Explains How a Machine Sorted Marbles by Color Using Gravity
Reading Time: < 1 minute If the machine seems impossible, that’s because it is.
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Captain Disillusion Explains the Secret of the Dancing Phantom Cloths
Reading Time: < 1 minute The trick is difficult to pull off, but it’s incredible to learn how it’s done.
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Captain Disillusion Explains an Invisibility Cloak Hoax (While Doing Imitations)
Reading Time: < 1 minute How does Captain Disillusion keep one-upping himself like this?
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This Debunking of the Viral “Portal to Sedona” Video is Incredible
Reading Time: < 1 minute Magic is so much cooler when a trick is complicated and you have a professional explaining to you how it’s done.
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Here’s How YouTubers Pull Off Those Amazing Trick Shots
Reading Time: < 1 minute Captain Disillusion does a great job explaining how most of those viral “trick shot” videos are created.
(Spoiler: It’s not always the result of raw talent.)
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The Secret Behind Will Tsai’s Mindblowing Magic Trick
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last month, on America’s Got Talent, a “visualist” named Will Tsai did the most incredible magic trick you’ve ever seen. It looked as if he was making coins disappear and reappear — or turn into rose petals — in the blink of an eye.
How did he do that? Captain Disillusion sheds some light on the visual effects and how the show’s editors may have helped.
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Captain Disillusion Explains the Secret Behind Viral Tape Measure Tricks
Reading Time: < 1 minute Just as with a great magic trick, even when you know it’s fake, watching the explanation is never boring.
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Captain Disillusion Explains the Secret Behind Those Traffic-Dodging Videos
Reading Time: < 1 minute Captain Disillusion does a neat job explaining all those videos of people dangerously dodging cars on the highway. (Spoiler: It’s all special effects… unless you’re an idiot.)