Lectures on Tap - The Neuroscience of Magic, Scams, and Deception

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🧠 Lecture: "The Neuroscience of Magic, Scams, and Deception"

🎙️ Speaker: Luigi Anzivino

Join us for a mind-bending evening as magician, former neuroscientist, and veteran science educator Luigi Anzivino reveals what’s really happening in your brain when you’re fooled by a magician, scammer, or even a politician.

Blending live magic with clear, accessible science, this highly interactive lecture will explore how attention, perception, and cognitive shortcuts can be cleverly exploited to deceive us. You’ll discover why it’s often the smartest people who are most easily fooled, and how naturally occurring “loopholes” in our thinking make magic—and manipulation—possible.

Grounded in real neuroscience and supported by live demonstrations, Luigi’s unique perspective comes from over a decade of performing smart, sophisticated magic and 20 years as a science educator and experience designer at San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum.

Come rethink what it means to be “fooled,” and leave with a deeper understanding of your own mind—and how to protect it.

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.