Whoozie Stick Obeys Voice Command!

Stage Magicians are masters of distraction. They know that if you see and hear them say, "Whoozie!" and a propeller stops spinning and goes the other direction, you are going to fall for the trick, since we all tend to think, "If X happens, then Z happens, it's probably because X forced Z to happen." That's a fallacy the Greeks and Romans talked about thousands of years ago.

Great science teachers know that training the student to think and look for verifiable answers is the scientific Way of Knowing (WoK), and that's a whole lot more important than memorizing the kingdom, order, phylum, genus and species of the fish in Idaho or Mississippi, or the planets in the order of their distance from the Sun.

Watch this video carefully, and then look at the video I posted about the Whoozie Stick on June 27, 2009, in my DrHanzonScience channel, and you'll see that today's video is really educational, because it may fool you into thinking, "Hey, sometimes magic really works!" Watch the Whoozie instructions video after you watch this one, and see if you can see how I get the propeller to stop and spin the other way. The size of the rubbing stick makes a difference, but saying the word Whoozie is not the cause of the behavior of the propeller.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Whoozie
• Stick
• magic
• word
• obedience
• spin
• propeller
• rubbing-stick
• command

[DrHanzonScience]

Hi, I'm James Louviere, "DrHanzonScience," Watch the propeller obeys my commands more the second half of the video. The video presents a problem that requires thinking. Can the propeller actually hear and respond to my voice? Look t the video I posted June 27 and learn the real reason the propeller stops and reverses its direction. I have other videos to post, so keep revisiting.

James Louviere, "DrHanzonScience"