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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
30 Second Science: Larry Rosenblum
Season 2013
Episode 5
Larry Rosenblum is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Riverside. He specializes in studying our perceptual abilities and how our senses can work together to give us unexpected "super powers." When he hangs up his lab coat for the day, Larry's super power is that he's a magician.
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We ask Larry Rosenblum 10 questions and he talks about sawing people in half.
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