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On the Web
- Skeptic's Dictionary: Cold Reading - Encyclopedia-type article on cold reading techniques.
- JREF: The Art of Cold Reading - Article by James Randi about cold reading.
- Guide to "Cold Reading" - The Australian Skeptic's 13 point how-to guide to cold reading.
- Insolitology: So, You Wanna Be a Psychic? - Description of cold reading techniques, with several illustrations from readings by TV psychic John Edwards.
- Skepticism.Net: John Edward's Cold Reading Gig - Edward uses his own version of a magician's technique called cold reading, and the show is heavily edited to make him look more accurate than he is.
- Cold Reading: The Tricks of the Psychics - Article by William Goldberg on tricks used by cult leaders and psychics to prove alleged supernatural abilities.
- Charles Ascello School of Film and Television - Redwood City. Offers classes in monologue work, scene work, commercials, improvisation, and cold readings. Kids, teens, and adults all attend the same classes. Includes links and contacts.
- Actors Workshop, The - Laguna Hills. Offers classes conducted at all levels in a broadcast TV studio, workshops in audition techniques, cold readings, and on-camera scene work, and weekly showcases with casting directors. Includes staff, gallery and links.
- Nick Conti's Professional Actor's Studio - Atlanta. Offers classes and workshops in cold reading, improvisations, scene work, and audition techniques with a quarterly showcase. Contains schedules, fees and contacts.
- Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio - Scene study, audition technique, cold reading and technique seminars with flexible scheduling for professional and select pre-professional actors, writers, directors, and producers. Based in Santa Monica
Wikipedia Articles
- Cold reading (theatrical) - Cold reading is a term used by actors and other performers in theatre, television, film, and performance fields. A cold reading is a reading aloud from a script or other text without any rehearsal, practice or study in advance.
- Cold reading - Cold reading is a technique used to convince another person that the reader knows much more about a subject than he actually does. Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing ...
- Ian Rowland - Ian Rowland is a mentalist who lives in London, England. He is the author of The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading, a book that explains how magicians or some people who claim to be psychic can fake uncanny "fortune telling" readings using the technique of Cold Reading.
- Cod War - The Cod Wars (also called the Iceland Cod Wars) were a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights near the coast of Iceland. The name of the conflict may be derived from a pun on the term "Cold War" (with "cod" reading so similarly to "cold"), possibly via the British tabloid press.
- Region 6 War Room - The Region 6 War Room is a nuclear bunker dating from the early days of the cold war and located on the Whiteknights Park campus of the University of Reading in the English town of Reading. It is one of a number of such Regional War Rooms built during the 1950s and designed to co-ordinate civil defence in the event of an attack on the country using conventional bombs or atom bombs.