Uri Geller

Uri Geller is an Israeli-British entertainer known for bending spoons and other objects during performances and claiming psychic abilities.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: An American late-night television program hosted by Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992. Geller's 1973 appearance was conducted under magician James Randi's controls and became a prominent test of his claims.
Mentalism: A performance art that creates the impression of mind reading or other psychological feats through methods such as suggestion and misdirection. It can reproduce effects associated with Geller without requiring paranormal explanations.
Johnny Carson: An American television host who presented The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for three decades. Carson's show gave Geller a high-profile platform, while its controlled test limited his ability to perform.
Parapsychology: The study of purported psychic phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis. Geller's claims became a prominent subject in debates over whether such phenomena can be studied scientifically.
James Randi: A Canadian-American magician and skeptic who challenged paranormal claims and investigated alleged psychics. Randi arranged safeguards for Geller's 1973 Carson appearance and publicly disputed his demonstrations.
Misdirection: A technique of directing attention away from the method behind a performance effect. It is one ordinary mechanism magicians use to make object manipulation appear inexplicable.
Andrija Puharich: An American physician and parapsychology researcher who investigated purported psychic phenomena. Puharich promoted Geller's abilities and helped introduce him to audiences in the United States.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: A principle that claims departing sharply from established knowledge need correspondingly strong supporting evidence. Geller's reported feats illustrate why unusual claims invite scrutiny of the evidence and experimental controls.
Stanford Research Institute: A research organization in California, now called SRI International, that conducted government-funded studies of purported remote viewing. In 1973, researchers there tested Geller's claimed psychic abilities in experiments later subject to methodological criticism.
Cold reading: A technique for making plausible personal statements seem based on special knowledge, using cues and audience responses. It explains some apparent demonstrations of psychic insight without extrasensory perception.

Linked from 1 page