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Nakul Shenoy 🕴️
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Sorcerer Supreme | Indian Mentalist. Author. Communication Scientist. Bibliophile. Teaholic.

Bangalore, India | www.nakulshenoy.com
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The kiddos — Inesh and Ishaan — got their first real ink in print thanks to #deccanherald. They are “the City’s child icons”.
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The kiddos Inesh & Ishaan aka The Amazing iTwins received great reception performing magic at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) for Krishna to Kaveri - the Karnataka Rajyotsava event organised by BIC and the Azim Premji Foundation.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I think it’s awesome that something could have its first stone laid in 1882 and still be building towards the original goal
Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
Antoni Gaudí’s masterwork is still under construction but now stands taller than Ulm Minster in southern Germany
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October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
nakulshenoy.bsky.social
Happy Deepavali to you and your family! May the festival of lights bring you all joy, cheer, prosperity, contentment, and peace. Stay blessed. 🙏
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Happy Deepavali 🪔 to you and your family. May the festival of lights usher in joy, contentment, peace and prosperity. God bless. 🙏
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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One of the most incredible magic effects I’ve ever experienced is when a playing card transforms visibly! Fortunately, I got the opportunity to learn this trick rather young.

Here’s my updated presentation for this classic mind-boggling magic:
youtu.be/RSovE536xDc

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Unbelievable Card Magic with Visual Transformation | Hidden Mystery Revealed
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September 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I recorded this performance of a magic trick. I think you’ll enjoy the magical storytelling employed in this presentation.

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Real Secrets of Magic with Nakul Shenoy!
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August 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
nakulshenoy.bsky.social
I recorded this performance of a magic trick. I think you’ll enjoy the magical storytelling employed in this presentation.

youtu.be/sPrmr3BnMNk?...
Real Secrets of Magic with Nakul Shenoy!
YouTube video by Nakul Shenoy
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August 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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The Shadow magazine dated August 1, 1941. Cover by Graves Gladney.
On the cover, a skeleton is sitting at a table and pouring itself a drink from a test tube. The Shadow is sneaking up behind it and is about to bash it in the skull with a rifle.
August 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Good morning from Kochi, Kerala! Enjoying a cup of tea in the quaint lounge as I wait to board my flight back to Bangalore.
A cup of tea rests on a table.
July 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Looks can deceive—and so can fake websites! Pause, check, and protect your money from online fraud.
Report fraud at cybercrime.gov.in or call 1930. Flashy discounts often hide traps—verify the URL before sealing the deal.

#CyberCrimeAwareness #DigitalSafety #CyberAware #ThinkBeforeYouClick
July 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Meta's Georgia facility, per the Times, "guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day," or about 10 percent of the total water used in the small community surrounding it.
Turns Out, Meta's AI Data Centers Use Up a Lot of Water In Addition to Electricity
Something that hasn't gotten enough attention is whether the entire AI enterprise is even sustainable, given how the computing power currently required, scaled upwards, uses incredible amounts of ener...
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July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I have begun making some videos of my all-time favourite magic effects. Here’s one where I perform one of my most loved rope acts. Hope you enjoy.

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Houdini's Escape with Nakul Shenoy
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July 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I have begun making some videos of my all-time favourite magic effects. Here’s one where I perform one of my most loved rope acts. Hope you enjoy.

youtu.be/iH9Xv-ieSAI
Houdini's Escape with Nakul Shenoy
YouTube video by Nakul Shenoy
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July 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
nakulshenoy.bsky.social
Jack’s #BitChat reminds me that Nokia tried something similar using phone based wifi network during the N8 / N9 days. I had a great time working with the global team helping them research this functionality that worked beyond the mobile telephony networks.
July 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Looks like the US is going to get its own Aadhaar.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Jul 1
Earlier today I joined Alicia Menendez to discuss Trump’s plans to build out a national citizenship data system for voting and how it can be abused. youtu.be/l3cvKB1bsgA
Trump’s Chilling Plans for National Citizenship Data System | Marc Elias
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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July 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I think this is one of my new all-time favourite photos of me on stage.

PS: The Joy of Reading Minds is REAL!
A smiling man (me!) dressed in a black stylish suit is standing on stage, mid-speech or performance, smiling, with hands clasped in front. A handheld microphone is visible peeping out of his right suit pocket. The background features blurred lighting and a podium with part of an event logo that reads DesignUp 2024. - Alt text generated with the aid of GPT.
June 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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What a beautiful book. What a joy - the diffusion and fusion of ideas, knowledge, commerce. Highly recommend The Golden Road

This: india has always been at its most creative and influential when…connected, plural, hybrid, open and receptive to new ideas.
realworldrj.bsky.social *it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · Jun 8
Taking my mind off creeping fascism at home with @willdalrymple.bsky.social’s book
June 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

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June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Trying to do the whole half-decade Iraq War discourse in 72 hours.
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The Onion took out a full page ad in @nytimes.com and also delivered a physical copy to every lawmaker calling out Congress for their inaction.

The news is putting satirists like The Onion out of work and they’re fighting back.
June 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
nakulshenoy.bsky.social
I love asking DeepSeek AI questions that it ponders on, analyses deeply, and then—just as the final output is expected—suddenly decides that the question was not something it wants to answer:
“Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”
June 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In other news, rejoined WhatsApp after being happily off it for four years. Sigh! The sins of getting old are here and very real.
June 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice. Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov- eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama. But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM