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David Blaine, the magician and endurance artist, is ready for more pain. With the help of Liberty Science Center, a chain-mail suit and an enormous array of Tesla electrical coils, he plans to stand atop a 20-foot-high pillar for 72 straight hours, without sleep or food, while being subjected to a million volts of electricity.

[Read more at The New York Times.]

See below for an image of David rehearsing the act: