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Hi, Patricia.

I once developed a participative show about "Senses". I managed to
demonstrate all the five "conventional" senses interactively, with plenty
of experiments. Most of these demos actually involved illusions of some
kind - for all the senses. Maybe if your colleague is encouraged to think
about "senses" as the topic, the ideas will come.

Distance-judging with two eyes and one eye, tasting plain chocolate (or
apple) while someone holds mint chocolate (or onion) under your nose,
camouflaged animals stationary or moving against a patterned background.
Deceiving people about the source of a sound, using false visual clues
(ventriloquism). There are loads more ideas.

The theme of my talk was to challenge the ridiculously limited, textbook
notion that we only have five senses, and to prove the perfectly scientific
basis for many other important human senses, e.g. balance, time,
proprioception, electric fields (charged balloon held near slightly hairy
skin of forearm), even echo-location. (And humour, of course!)

I like teaching people that there's more out there than school textbook
science!

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People forget what you said, people forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Ian Russell

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