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Just as a tangent: what you posed is an example of what the magic community refers to as a problem (what the spectator sees). Magicians then try to come up with a method that satis…

I'm going to be coy here: that's a classic in magic, with many possible solutions!

The classic recurrence is if you're choosing K elements out of N, it either has the first element (in which case you choose K-1 elements out of the remaining N-1) or it doesn't (in…

I enjoyed (the first 2/3 of) Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style. It includes examples of where prescriptivism fails and succeeds.

http://www.drchilepepper.com/marie-sharps-hot-habanero-peppe... so tasty!

I don't have any studies, but check the wikipedia page for examples of Memory Championship winners using the method to, for example, memorize a deck of shuffled cards or a random s…

There are techniques with better payoff and retention. Check the memory systems advocated by David Roth or Harry Lorayne, or the locus method ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meth…

In UC Berkeley, the 2 level means graduate student level.

I second Card College. Absolutely the highest standard in card magic pedagogy.