Something incredible had happened. 不可思议的事情发生了。 I might have caused it, but it had not come from me. 可能是我造成的，但不是来源于我。 I had inadvertently tapped into something visceral and wild: 我无意中发现了...
She marched toward me and demanded to know what was going on. 她朝我走了过来，问我发生了什么事。 The coin vanished for her too. 她也看到硬币不见了。 Do it again,she said, and I did. 再来一次，她说，我又做了一遍。...
One of the lessons you learn very early on as a magician is that the most amazing part of a trick has nothing to do with the secret. 作为魔术师，你很早就学会了一个道理，那就是魔术中最神奇的部分没有什么秘密可言。...
I became a magician by accident. When I was nine years old learned how to make a coin disappear. 我成为一名魔术师是一个偶然。九岁的时候我学会了如何让硬币消失。 I'd read The Lord of the Rings and ventured into the adult...
The subjects were also wired to machines that captured their brains' electrical activity. 受试者还被连接到能够捕捉他们脑电活动的机器上。 A second and a half or two seconds before the conscious insight, we see this burst of acti...
WLLIAM MILLER, PHD, emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at an the University of New Mexico, 新墨西哥大学心理学和精神病学名誉教授威廉米勒， interviewed people who had experienced sudden realizations that led to life...
Had I been a half-second slower, the whole mass of it would have come into the car, Schulz says. 舒尔茨说：如果我再慢半秒钟，麋鹿就会撞到车。 I have no doubt I'd have been decapitated. 毫无疑问，我会死的。 Several moto...
MOST OF THE TIME, ideas develop from the steady percolation and evaluation of thoughts and feelings. 大多数时候，创意从思维和感觉的稳定渗流和评价发展而来。 But every so often, if you're lucky, a blockbuster notion breaks th...
Lovell's next move was hard for even him to believe. 洛弗尔接下来的行为连他自己都难以相信。 He returned the guy's money and declared himself done with the swindler's life. 他把钱还给了那个人，并宣称从此金盆洗手。...
SIMON LOVELL WAS 31 and a professional con man who had spun the gambling tricks he'd learned from his grandfather into a lucrative business fleecing strangers. 西蒙洛弗尔今年31岁，是一名职业骗子，他把从祖父那里学来的赌博技...
A Norwegian man hired a friend to knock off a potential lover who didn't seem to share the man's ardor. 一名挪威男子雇佣了一位朋友，去杀一位似乎不怎么喜欢他的情人。 But then the would-be hit man got cold feet, so his pat...
A Pennsylvania man plagued by opossums in his yard set fire to a pile of leaves, hoping to scare off the marsupials. 宾夕法尼亚州一名男子在自家院子里被负鼠骚扰，他点燃了一堆树叶，希望吓跑负鼠。 We don't know whet...
I WAS IN A RESTAURANT having lunch when I noticed four men dressed in camouflage uniforms seated nearby. 我在一家餐馆吃午饭的时候，旁边四名身着迷彩服的男子吸引了我的注意。 I'm proud of the men and women who serve our...
5.THE LAST WALTZ 5.最后的华尔兹 What's the longest a lady should wait to be asked to a dance? 一个女人等待被邀请跳舞的时间最长是多久? For Rockford, Ohio, resident Delores Dennison, the answer is something north of 70 years. 对...
4.BREAKING A BARRIER 4.打破壁垒 In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman approached a high school in Charleston, Mississippi, 1997年，演员摩根弗里曼来到密西西比州查尔斯顿的一所高中， and offered to pay for its senior prom on one co...
