In a review of Diana Gazes's $29-a-ticket psychic spoon-bending seminar, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gazes told the 100 attendees that their powers of concentration would "cause an alteration in the spin of the atoms" of the spoon. To achieve that, the student should grasp the spoon in both hands with thumbs underneath the smallest part of the handle and "apply some downward strength." Not surprisingly, the Chronicle reported, spoons handled in that manner bend fairly easily. As Gazes shouted "Bend! Bend!" the attendees leaped to their feet, one by one, waving spoons, shouting, "I bent!"

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