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THE MAGIC TRICK THAT CHANGED MY LIFE By Nate Staniforth from the book here is real magic I became a magician by accident. When I ...

do with the secret. The secret is sim- ple and often dull: a hidden piece of tape, a small mirror, a duplicate play- ing card. I ...

explain. Surprise comes easy, but joy never does. I was an alchemist who had somehow—unknowingly, unintentionally—discovered how ...

breeze blew across its surface. I had delayed this stunt by two weeks be- cause the river was frozen. Now the ice had cleared an ...

on a table—his table—in the base- ment of the student union. “Listen,” I say, scanning the room. “In a minute, you are going to ...

wondering what would have hap- pened if you had named a number other than the number you are about to name.” The audience laughs ...

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Photographs by Grant Cornett rd.com 89 HEALTH & MEDICINE The LIFE SAVER on Dad’s Computer Screen A daughter caring for her a ...

Arlyn Anderson grasped her father’s hand. “A nursing home would be safer, Dad,” she told him. “No way,” Jim Anderson interjected ...

Jim would have wanted to know exactly how the service worked. Now he simply chatted back. Within a week, Jim and his dog, whom h ...

They don’t know his name—or, in the case of those who have dementia, such as Jim—that he even exists. It’s his job to be invisib ...

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will make technological solutions unavoidable. Joseph Coughlin, PhD, director of MIT’s AgeLab, is pragmatic. “I would always pre ...

weirdly therapeutic—and told the pet how hard it was to watch her dad lose his identity. “I’m here for you,” Pony said. “I love ...

I’m a nurse in a hospi- tal’s children’s ward. One night, I was at the nurses’ station when I heard a little boy in his room tal ...

We asked prospective job applicants at our company to fill out a questionnaire. For the line “Choose one word to summarize your ...

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By Matt Susko from reddit.com Reader’s Digest Illustration by Francesco Bongiorni In the midst of a tense ambush in Iraq, a sold ...

I remember the first time I ever pointed a weapon at someone with the intent to kill them. The experience was very different fro ...