Arthur Ellison, a professor of electrical engineering and prank enthusiast, decided to end a lecture in an entertaining way. He got a group of volunteers, some of whom were his colleagues, to concentrate on a bowl of flowers on a table. They were to look at it, chant “om,” and attempt to levitate it with their minds. To almost everyone’s surprise, they succeeded. The bowl lifted off the table, only to crash back down when the group stopped chanting in surprise…

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