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Here are two performances by Luke Clements on Britain’s Got Talent:

You can tell the judges enjoyed the apple eating, but they issued him a very specific challenge. Here’s what he came up with.

What a missed opportunity. If he could have found any way to get anything close to taking a bite out of that melon he would have moved on to the next level.

Also, the female judge Amanda made a great point that he should have led with his best stuff.

Sad to see yet another juggler “eaten” alive on a “Got Talent” show.

We love the scientific articles that come out saying that somehow our brains are enhanced because we can juggle.

A new study, reported on the Earth Times Web site, shows that juggling not only effects the brains of young people, but also the brains of those over 50 years old.

Unlike young adults, older adults who learned to juggle had increased grey matter in hippocampus and nucleus accumbens compared to controls.

As in young adults, these grey-matter changes were transient, returning to baseline after three months without practice. These results indicate that human brains retain some structural plasticity as they age.

Although the older adults did not learn to juggle as well as younger adults, those who did learn showed similar increases in grey matter in the visual motion area of their brains.

Click here to read the whole article.

Here’s a video of one of those older brains at work:

Colombia has been especially hard hit by the world’s current financial challenges. An article on CCTV.com explains that many Colombians in the city of Bogota are turning to street performing for two reasons: to make a living, and to make people smile in a desperate time.

Juggler Angel Rubiano said, “We keep working. As you see we are all in the mood to work, make some money and improve this art, despite the fact that the country is in crisis. We don’t want to be part of the crisis and we are working here to make you laugh and fill you with emotions and sensations.”

One of the ways they perform is by jumping in front of traffic at red lights and putting on a 30 second show. It’s a pretty intense form of street performing; and even though we’re pretty sure you’d get you thrown in jail in America for doing something like that, it makes us wonder about other outside-the-box ideas performers can make a few extra bucks in this difficult time.

Here’s a video of some red-light street performers in Bogota:

The media was all abuzz last year when Patrick Dempsey showed off his juggling skills in Made of Honor.

It seems like we’ll get a chance to see more of Dempsey’s juggling in an upcoming movie.

In a recent interview with the Boston Globe he said,

Right now I’m doing a movie, Valentine’s Day, with Garry Marshall. Every scene that I’m in, he has me juggling. . . [The juggling] illustrate[s] an emotional scene in the movie. The character uses it as avoidance.

Read the whole article here.

Click here to catch a glimpse of Dempsey juggling in the trailer.

And here’s a quick video of Dempsey, juggling with the Flying Karamozov Brothers, before an interview with Rachael Ray.

Juggling is the star in another commercial! This time it’s Vova Galchenko for Old Spice deoderant.

Smells good Vova!