The Science of Magicย 

June 19, 2024 ย โ€ขย  EPISODE 227

In this episode, Roger Billings reveals the secrets behind a classic card trick. Discover how science and clever techniques combine to create mind-blowing magic and learn how you can perform your own magical feats!

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Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as โ€œDrBโ€ to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrBโ€™s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to โ€œgive backโ€ by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


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124 Comments

  1. Minh

    I love magic

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  2. Meredith

    It was fun watching the magic show ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿ˜Šโ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ˜˜

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  3. Rachael

    I like magic

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  4. Andrew

    This was a very interesting video about magic tricks. Slight of hand tricks are not as easy as they look.

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  5. Vivienne

    I wish Dr. Billings had shown us how he did the card trick with the transporter. I found this trick interesting.

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  6. Samuel

    Iโ€™m glad that I saw this video. It was fun to learn the card trick someday Iโ€™ll probably do it myself.

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  7. Asher

    I recognize the music from one of those magic tricks and I think Iโ€™m gonna get a magic deck ofcards

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  8. Kali

    cool tricks

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  9. Gabriel

    Dr billings u have inspired me to not give up in karate and also i am moving up belts like crazy and soon i will become a black belt i wish i coukd meet u๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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  10. Corey

    I love sience live

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  11. Lourdes

    I love magic and I always wonder how people always discover these types of stuff.

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  12. Kira

    Love the tricks lol

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  13. Sadie

    Dr. Billings, Thank you so much for showing us how much fun magic is.

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  14. Rebecca

    What a cool show!!

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  15. Tumi

    Really cool๐Ÿ˜€

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  16. Destiny

    You guys are sooooooo magicazing amazing and magic combined I love science thank you๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿ’ป

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  17. Laci

    magic is cool but i wonder how it works :O

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  18. Archer

    I know how to make stuff disappear: grab a coin with your index finger and your thumb, and then pretend to grab it with your other hand. Then, let the coin fall into your right hand.

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  19. Brookelyncloud

    magic is so strange

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  20. Ronin

    roger B for best magician (and best teacher\evolutionary scientist)

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  21. Milly

    Wow I love the card trick! Itโ€™s so cool! Iโ€™ve heard of it but Iโ€™ve never actually done it before!

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  22. Amelia

    I love science live!

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  23. Max

    My Papa got me a small magic trick set with coins and string when I was small, itโ€™s fun to think about the science behind magic itself (especially the fancy tricks like vanishing and bigger illusions!)!

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  24. Lindy

    hi Dr.billings if you are reading this I am just saying I love science live.

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  25. Katya

    Hello DR.Billings I really loved your magic

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  26. Brock

    this is cool

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  27. Bianca

    A magical video!

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  28. Skyler

    My grandpa bought me a magic set but it was so hard to learn from drawn pictures.

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  29. Logan

    I know two card tricks and never thought about how science can explain them

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  30. Edan

    I like playing cards. I really like uno

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  31. Elisiyana

    Those magic shows were so magnificent! I enjoyed the one with the lights!

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  32. Angel

    When I was little, I used to want to be a magician ๐ŸŽฉ

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  33. Lillian

    No wonder why Roger Billing is so good at magic because he is amazing at science. The science behind magic is mind-blowing. I love watching magic but I never knew that they used so much science to do the magic.

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  34. Louis

    Magic is great

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  35. Maverick

    This video was so fun!!!!!

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  36. David

    I love magic

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  37. Gabriel

    Man, I had no idea that Roger Billings could do magic tricks!

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  38. Menna

    science is magic! love this

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  39. Jason

    I LOVE Magic!!!

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  40. Cris

    Does anyone know any cool card magic tricks? I love MAGIC TRICKS SOOOOOO MUCH!!!

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  41. Toryn

    I want to see DrB and R-51 say something at the same time

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  42. Mark

    Magic is really hard to do.

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  43. Da

    Whoa! that is so cool, thankyou so much for this video.

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  44. Maggie

    ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜french fries no cooked in France it was in grease ๐Ÿ˜ so funny๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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  45. Maggie

    soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  46. I

    THIS IS AMAZING.

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  47. Emma

    Thanks for showing us how magic card tricks work! This was awesome particularly the writing on the card!

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  48. Jordan

    I tried doing magic and I got caught redhanded

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  49. Elijah

    Wow this was cool

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  50. Libby

    Wow this was really interesting!

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  51. Rebecca

    its really cool how magic works

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  52. Ericka

    I loved this!

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  53. Julia

    its so fascinating how people came up with all these magic trick ideas

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  54. Liam

    These tricks that you guys have done are really cool. I enjoyed getting to watch it.

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  55. Cason

    The science behind magic was so interesting, I enjoyed learning all about it!

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  56. Jaxon

    Magic has always been awesome this video taught me a lot!!

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  57. Audrey

    LOVED EVERY PART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!โค๐Ÿคฏ

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  58. Audrey

    I wish R 51 was in every show and I could do magic like him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loooooooooooved it โคโคโค

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  59. Lily

    this was such a cool video and dang r51 lifts my spirits and makes me laugh everytime i watch

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  60. Owen

    How does the Saw box trick work?

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  61. Maya

    wow!!! so cool

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  62. Sallie

    so ccooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllll how do you get a card deck like you Dr B and pajet mona

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  63. An

    This is one of my favorite videos of Science Live. I wish they would make more interesting videos like this!

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  64. I

    WOW I LOVE CARDTRICKS๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’–

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  65. Cheespuffs

    I Love magic

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  66. Nylah

    These are some really cool tricks! I can do some, but not as good as that๐Ÿ˜€

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  67. Nylah

    That is freaky crazy๐Ÿ˜ฑ

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  68. Bryson

    wow

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  69. Danny

    Ms. Pajet is my social emotional health teacher, and I like it so much, I’m almost done with the course

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  70. Ebenezer

    The Magic are incredible why you laugh at you

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  71. Ebenezer

    Wow this is so cool

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  72. Hannah

    I love magic!

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  73. Jessica

    I love watching people try magic, and Dr. Roger Billings is good at it. It’s really cool to see Miss Pajet as one of his helpers

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  74. Jessica

    I looove watching people do magic

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  75. Jada

    The story of Greatbatch’s Pacemaker was very inspiring, and it taught me what perseverance looks like, and how to stay vigilant.

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  76. Dance

    awesome

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  77. Liam

    I really like magic.

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  78. Ava

    ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ‘๏ธsoooo funny R 51 is so funny and I canโ€™t stop laughing about his magic show๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

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  79. Ava

    That was fun

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  80. Ava

    I love science LIVE it is so cool and fun science rocks

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  81. Kaliyah

    This is awesome, I just got a magic kit for my birthday.

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  82. Just

    ๐Ÿ˜The first French fries weren’t cooked in France a they were cooked in greece๐Ÿ˜
    Nice one.

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  83. Ace

    I knew the basics behind card tricks, but this is still great. I wonder if there are any tricks with lions, that would be awesome๐Ÿค˜. Gracias Dr. B!โœŒ

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  84. Teagan

    I love magic

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  85. Sadie

    I love magic I think it is really nice

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  86. Leantwan

    R 51 isn’t the most skilled person tough he might have 30 IQ just saying ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜€ but my doctor said I have 79 IQ isn’t that amazing ._.

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  87. Kade

    How did the R51 change the bouncy ball to the 12 ball?

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  88. Kourtlynn

    I love magic and science live

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  89. Max

    did the dog only last 2 years with the pace maker?

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  90. Max

    With the immersion cooling how often would you have to change the oil

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  91. Max

    Does the steam from the water cause any air pollution?

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  92. Nya

    ๐ŸคฏWow that is soooo cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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  93. Cleopatra

    that was so cool and funny.

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  94. Violet

    Super cool!!

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  95. Josiah

    Neat

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  96. Ella

    The magic videos are really cool!

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  97. Karis

    I like connecting magic to the scientific reasoning, I always wonder how crazier magic tricks are preformed.

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  98. Keiphas

    I Love Magic

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  99. Midorilynn

    ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ‘๏ธsoooo funny R 51 is so funny and I canโ€™t stop laughing about his magic show๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

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  100. Selena

    The magic tricks are so amazing!

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  101. Olivia

    “Keep your eye on 51” ๐Ÿ˜‚

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  102. Ryker

    Really cool I wanna learn magic.

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  103. Morgan

    Very interesting, especially the Magic tricks and the story of the pace maker

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  104. Elexi

    I wonder how many undiscovered magic tricks there are. Technology will probably open the doors to a lot of them.

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  105. Arya

    I think it is so cool when card tricks are explained

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  106. Saarth

    This is awesome

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  107. Alexandria

    I Love the talks about the certain subjects they are very interesting! And even science history.

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  108. Sherif

    Magic is very interesting.

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  109. Hannah

    wow that is amazing!

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  110. Jasmin

    i’ll never be able to see magic without thinking of the science behind it

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  111. Selah

    I love this but you should do one with kittens.

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  112. Adam

    I think it’s interesting how magicians use sleight-of-hand and misdirection to come up with really cool tricks.

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  113. Lam

    I love hearing about your tricks and it amazed me that you were a magician! Hope to hear from you soon!

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  114. Trent

    I love this. I am totally going to buy a mirage deck for sure. I came up with a trick with a deck like this one a few days ago when I first saw this video.

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  115. Janat

    I’ve always thought science was magical, but when science and magic actually combines it makes everything 10x more interesting than people think it will be.

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  116. Adrian

    OIL COOLING SYSTEM amazing

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  117. Coralynn

    its so cool when science and magic combine thanks Dr.B. I would love to hear more of your tricks!!

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  118. Cielo

    This episode was so fun It was so creative again Thanks Dr B and miss Monet

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  119. Ava

    that was fun

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  120. Josiah

    Wow, that’s interesting how science and magic tie together. I would love to hear more about computer water cooling.

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  121. Tucker

    Fun watching the magic and discovering some of the secrets behind them

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  122. Jason

    Wow!Roger Billings makes science so interesting! Jesus loves you Dr. Billings!

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  123. Carlie

    Now I really wanna go to a magic store and buy everything. It’s so amazingly cool! Thanks for inspiring me Dr.Billings.

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  124. Esther

    wow, crazy cool

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