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Two weeks ago Italian police announced they are hunting a man who is suspected of hypnotising a supermarket cashier and making her to hand over money from cash register. Several newspapers reported this, and there’s also CCTV footage on BBC News website.

Now, how is this possible? Can you really hypnotize someone just like that, and make him/her hand over some money? Could you do this to a bank clerk and make him wire you some six figure sums?

Famous british magician and mentalist Derren Brown has performed similiar tricks in his tv show, where he pays for diamond ring with blank paper bills, collects cash for a losing ticket in dog track and even persuades a group of business to commit an armed robbery.

I always thought Derren Brown is full of shit, and his mentalism tricks are nothing but a tv-show, but now i am not sure anymore.

What do you think? Please leave a comment and write your opinions and thoughts, especially if you know something about hypnotism and/or mind control

“This building is a top secret fortress. Locked inside it’s vault is 100 billion U.S. Dollars worth of solid gold. This is Fort Knox. Only once has the gold vault ever been filmed. It’s secured by over 10 000 soldiers and 300 tanks.”

Very interesting documentary about Fort Knox (officially known as United States Bullion Depository) and it’s history.

Watch entire 1h 26 minutes long documentary here.

On December 18th, 2007 Steve Blank gave a presentation in Google campus about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies ( including CIA and NSA ) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

It’s part of Google Tech Talks serie, and has interesting anecdotes and facts about WW2 and SIGINT.

Entire 56 minutes long presentation can be watched here.

“Panorama has fresh revelations about the lending practices of the high street banks. An insider reveals an industry driven by ambitious targets to sell borrowing to customers.”