Anthony Barnhart

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Magic Scholar; Carthage College Psych Science prof; Weird experiences make a life well-lived.

anthonybarnhart.com/

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Dr Matt L Tompkins @mattltompkins.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

DEADLINE Reminder: SoMA 2024 Conference Presentation Proposals Due July 14! open.substack.com/pub/scienceo...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

It's what's for dinner...

#recipes #whitetacos

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

Weird.

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Seen in the wilds of Dixon, Illinois.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

This make me seethe

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Dr Matt L Tompkins @mattltompkins.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

SoMA Newsletter July 2024: Deadlines for Conference Abstracts, New Interview Series, & Two New Stories
HT @annamerlan.bsky.social @magictony.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/scienceo...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

Here's a rockin' deal on some happy dippy birds, if you're in the market.

www.walmart.com/ip/Forum-Nov...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

I have never seen more buns in my Kenosha neighborhood than I have this year.

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Dr Matt L Tompkins @mattltompkins.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

New SoMA Newsletter: Featuring conference updates, new publications, a contest, and a case study of nonmagical needle swallowing. t.co/ujpPSpVvK3

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

In April, I persuaded the national president of the Society of American Magicians to join me for a panel discussion on "Why Magic Sucks" at my college's Comic Con event. It was a hoot, and he later wrote about the experience in his monthly president's column: drive.google.com/file/d/19FjJ...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 00:17 UTC

I am loving the stage setup for Ondřej Pšenička's show, "52 Lovers," at the Chicago Magic Lounge.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

Pivot Tables are the bee's knees. When I teach statistics, I make a big deal before teaching about pivot tables. "Are you ready to have your life changed forever?!"

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

It's really remarkable when this happens. I've seen it a lot at European research conferences, in particular.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

I also know it when I smell it.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

I don't know how to define "art," but I know it when I see it.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

Oh god that's the stuff

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

So this is simply a realization of cognitive models across the centuries.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
[ View ] May 29, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
[ View ] May 28, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 27, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

I currently have an ice pack on my forehead and a heating pad on my back. #pathetic

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 27, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

Doing batting practice with my nine-year-old and his friend, today, he threw the ball at me when I wasn't looking. It hit me in the forehead. When I doubled over in pain, my back went out. I'm killing it at this life thing

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 21, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

Saw my first Cyber Truck on the road yesterday. Those things are dumb as hell.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 17, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

This is what a wear under my regalia at graduation every year.

This is the song that subsequently runs through my head for days thereafter. youtu.be/Z01MSGmzGSc?...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 17, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

I used to be a real magician.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

I mean, if I were him I woulda definitely taken my chances on a jury not being able to reach a unanimous verdict

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

Making some badass Wisconsin beer brats for Mother's Day.

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14997...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

@curtisfrye.com OMG. Exciting SoMA announcement forthcoming. Weeeeeeeeee!

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

Had a vegetarian friend over last night, so we made these veggie reubens. Pretty darned good (if a little acidic)!

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] May 06, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

If I had to start over and travel down a different career path, I'd probably go with graphic design. I don't have any expertise in the topic, but I like thinking about it and tinkering. Take a look at this amazing package of nanaimo bars that my colleague brought back for me fro Canada. Beautiful.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 12:25 UTC

An article I handled as editor has been published today at PeerJ.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

This is amazing. Science is self-correcting (but sometimes that correction can take decades). We used to know this. Then we forgot this. Now we know it again: We can see behind us.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

Spontaneously thought about the fact that the stalls in the bathrooms of my middle school didn't have doors. What a weird, wild time.

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Windypundit @windypundit.com
[ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

What a guy! Fighting Wokeness wherever he can!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 01:04 UTC

Philosopher, Helen De Cruz, explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world, and why we practice magic. press.princeton.edu/ideas/why-we...

#Philosophy #philosopher

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Dr Matt L Tompkins @mattltompkins.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 10:54 UTC

New SoMA Newsletter: A Call for Abstracts, Book Recommendation, New Neuroscience Study, and A Breaking-ish (simultaneously very old) Story About Magic & Tech
open.substack.com/pub/scienceo...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

How fucking cool is this picture from the International Space Station of the eclipse creating a shadow on the Earth during the eclipse.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 12:27 UTC

Watching an Israeli minister on Morning Joe. He isn't doing Israel any favors. He put scare quotes around "innocent civilians," he called the people of Gaza the enemies, and he stated that no Nazis made it out of Germany after WWII. Israel is bollucksing this whole thing up.

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

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Scott Leonard @therealdcscott.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 31, 2024 at 02:51 UTC

Now at the Racine Art Museum, the annual Peeps show.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 31, 2024 at 10:12 UTC

Hunting for Easter Eggs with Werner Herzog

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 31, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

“Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway.” - Mark Twain

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

The through-line in Haidt’s most consequential work has been a consistent tendency to distort data about young peoples’ mental health in order to foment social panics around them.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

Nice thread on how conspiracy theories spread rapidly after a crisis event. People have frames, basic ways of viewing events, that they use to interpret events without clear understandings.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

It is deeply frustrating to watch Haidt cherrypick and twist research that I spent half my career in the thick of. I’m so grateful for Candice Odgers’ willingness to challenge him. He’s leading the public down the wrong path by playing into parents’ anxieties. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Tonight a friend reminded me of how friggin' good my take was on #TheDress. I was too late when I sent it to Scientific American, and then I didn't try to send it anywhere else and just posted it on my blog. I should have tried to get it published at another venue. I was but a baby at the time.

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Anthony Barnhart @magictony.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

More duck than rabbit.

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Andy Luttrell @andyluttrell.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

I remember we had been asking him all these questions about the earlier days of his career, and we apologetically asked if he had a few more minutes. He was totally cool, smiled, and said, "I like remembering this stuff."

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