Mind Tricks to Play on People #1
There are several mind tricks that you can play at your workplace, in order to make a very good first impression on your colleagues and superiors. Being well dressed is a mind trick in itself. Crisp ironed clothes, especially black ones, make a very dominating and mature impression on people around you. If you want, you can even grow a French beard. It is necessary to trim it properly every day. You can also make a very good impression by using good accessories, such as a good ink pen with black ink, or clean polished shiny shoes. If your hair has started graying, then do not dye it, as gray hair signifies maturity. To give people an impression that you are a caring person, keep a photograph of your dog, wife, or your child on your desk. Another very important mind trick to play on people at your workplace is to act mildly interested in anything not related to work, and speak only when spoken to. Your posture or style of standing also tends to create a good impression on other people. The key to make a very good first impression is to talk less, appear to be in thought and talk rarely. But when you talk, your voice must sound pleasant and you must also give off a mild and warm smile.
Mind Tricks to Play on People #2
Another situation where you need to play really good mind tricks on people, is when you are with your friends. One of the best mind tricks to play on your friends is known as ‘lukewarm water’. In case of an argument, all you need to do is act lukewarm. Give a firm and sturdy reply while maintaining an erect posture, a steady, glassy stare and a cold voice. This is sufficient to visibly shake the person in front of you, and there is a very small chance that he would quarrel with you again. This is the best way to argue with a friend, as it effectively finishes off a quarrel or an argument, and does not result into any crumpled feelings. You many also read more on body language.
Mind Tricks to Play on People #3
This trick can be played on any person who is visibly younger to you. This mind trick is strictly meant for men. Also never, ever try this mind trick on a lady as you might get slapped. During the course of your business or career, there are bound to be situations when you will find that you are dealing with people who are visibly younger to you. All you have to do is lightly place your arm on the other person’s shoulder, while in a standing position, when you are talking ‘only’ to that person. This mind trick is many a times used by marketing or sales personnel and develops a feeling of absolute trust about you, in the other person’s mind.
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When you open or close the butterfly knife, it creates the illusion of a butterfly’s wings flapping around. The unique design makes the opening and closing of the knife very swift and easy, which basically means you can do so with one hand. Now it’s time we take a loot at some easy butterfly knife tricks for beginners.
Step #1: First of all, being familiar with the butterfly knife is very important, and you will have to buy steel-toed boots as well. The boots are to protect your feet while you’re practicing the butterfly knife tricks and drop it at times. Also, cover the sharp edge of the knife with an electric tape. This way, if you happen to grab the blade by mistake, you won’t injure yourself.
Step #2: Locate the knife’s safe handle. You will see that it doesn’t have a latch underneath it, so you might have to keep holding the safe handle as you open it with your little finger. This will make the blade and latch hang freely. The blade should be in your palm (right or left hand), while your thumb and index finger will be on the safe handle.
Step #3: A basic butterfly knife trick is which holds the key to all the other tricks. If you get this one, then you can pretty much manipulate yourself into learning the other butterfly knife tricks as well. Hold the knife steady, loosen it in your fingers, and fling your wrist toward the back. This will make the handle go around to the back of your hand and open the blade. Again fling your wrist towards you (opposite of what you did before). This will open the knife completely.
Step #4: Opening the knife has to be in one swift movement. This is part of the butterfly knife tricks. Now let’s take a look at the continuation of this trick. Once you finish the first-half of the trick, the second-half needs you to jerk the hand upward. Again, do this as rapidly and confidently as you can. It may take you some time to become confident with flinging the knife swiftly.
Step #5: The idea of flinging the knife upward is to get it positioned straight up (vertically). The blade will pass the horizontal level; and this is where you give another fling.
Step #6: Fling your hand again and pass the handle through the vertical level. This will make the handle fall back in its original place (in your fingers). There you have it, you have successfully finished learning two-part butterfly knife tricks. Read entire article.
Pencil Tricks: The Spin
Take a long pencil and hold it carefully between your index finger, middle finger and thumb. Make sure that your middle finger and index finger are at least an inch apart and all the fingers should be pointing upwards. You should grip the pencil very lightly with your middle finger and also relax your wrist. Now extend your index finger and fold your middle finger so that it is resting on the inside of its last joint exactly on the thumb. Move your index and middle finger in back and forth motion and keep this momentum. At first it might be a little difficult to this pencil trick, but with a little practice you will be able to master it.
Pencil Tricks: The Twist
Fold your hands and place them in front of you so that your fingers are pointing upwards. Now place a pencil horizontally in the webbed space between your thumbs and index fingers. Hold the pencil firmly in between your thumb and middle finger, turn the fingertips of your right hand away from your body and the fingertips of your left hand towards you. Now move the right thumb in the space between the left thumb and index finger. As your hands turn, your right thumb will move across the back of your left thumb. Tilt your hands forward when the fingers of your left hand are pointing towards your body. The pencil will move to the starting position.
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Before we talk about easy balisong tricks, let us know something about its interesting history. Balisong is a popular and glamorized type of Filipino pocket knife. Also known as a ‘Butterfly Knife’ (due to its twin handles) and ‘Beinte Neuve’ (Spanish for Twenty Nine) in some parts of the world. Other popular names include ‘click clacks’ and ‘fan knives’. A typical balisong is made up from layers of aluminum or brass connected together with pins. The two handles between which the blade is sandwiched are often covered with scales of rosewood, horn or other materials.
The word balisong is supposed to have been derived from a word in the Tagalog language (an Austronesian language spoken in Philippines) called baling sungay (meaning ‘broken horn’). That is because the original balisong knife was made from broken horns of animals. The first use of balisong type knives can be traced back to province in Philippines called Batangas. These knives are handmade there locally by specialists.
If we go way back in history, the first mention of a balisong like weapon called a ‘butterfly knife’ was made in a French book called ‘Le Perret’ in 1710. It has a detailed description of this knife and says that it was developed as a utility type of knife in the 16th century. There are two conjectures about its origin in history. One is that the balisong is an invention of ancient Filipino natives and it dates back to 800 AD being an integral part of a ancient fighting system in Philippines called Eskrima.
The other theory is that this kind of knife was transported to Philippines by the Spanish people who ruled the country. The spread of this weapon to United States of America occurred during the second world war. American soldiers returning to US from the Pacific islands brought the balisong to US and popularized it there as a pocket or utility knife. It is also used as a fighting weapon by some people and for amusement in the form of flipping it as an art form. In the next section we will have a look at basic balisong tricks that anybody could learn.
How to Do Balisong Tricks?
Before we go ahead with basic balisong tricks, let me talk about some safety measures. Wear protective boots while practicing and make sure that you put thick tape over the sharp edge of the knife to prevent injury. Even with the tape practice carefully.
Partial Open Vertical Flip
Let us have a look at the most basic trick called the partial open flipping trick. There are many more ways to open this type of a knife, but this one’s the simplest one. Open the latch of the balisong which is normally on the handle that is other than the safety handle. Begin with the initial position. Hold only the safe handle of the balisong and let the other hang down in vertical fashion. From this position, the objective is to open the blade fully, without using hands. Make sure that your thumb is safely out of the way. Read entire article.
Lead researcher Tolga Ergin explained that the cloak is composed of a grouping of crystals with air spaces between them, similar to a pile of wood. As light passes through the crystals, it bends, hiding the bump in the layer of gold beneath. The bump was extremely tiny – only .00004″ high and .0005″ wide – and could be seen only with a magnifying lens. The team designed what Ergin called a “photonic metamaterial” that was able to influence the behavior of light rays. The design is based on a “carpet cloak” that was first suggested by Professor Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London. Pendry proposed the theory of having an object hidden beneath a bump, and then making the bump invisible. “It’s like a carpet mirror,” Ergin said. “If you hide an object under it, there is a bump, so you see a distortion in the reflected image. We put the carpet cloak on top of that bump and it bends the light so that the distortions disappear.”
Under this experiment, the reflective surface (carpet) appeared to be flat. The team used “laser writing” to create the cloak, using a tightly focused laser beam to “write” on light-sensitive material. Ergin explained, “Wherever you put the focus spot into the material, it will harden. It’s a similar process to photography – when you develop it, whatever hasn’t been exposed to the laser will be washed away.”
Invisibility cloaks use special materials to deflect light, radar, or other waves that flow around an object, similar to water flowing around a smooth pebble in a babbling brook. Invisibility is different from stealth technology, which is not designed to make an airplane invisible, but instead to reduce the cross-section image available to radar.
Professor Ortwin Hess, of the University of Surrey, called the study a “huge step forward” in demonstrating invisibility in three dimensions. He said this great achievement and the photonic materials developed by the team could be used in the future development of lenses, as well as in optical circuitry and light storage. Hess acknowledged that a true invisibility cloak is a long way off, but Ergin’s results showed a remarkable proof of the principle. Read more on Magic and Optical Illusions. Read entire article.