Blessed Are The Weird

Blessed are the weird people —poets, misfits, writers, mystics heretics, painters & troubadours— for they teach us to see the world through different eyes

Spirit Rattle

October's experiment transforms a highly sophisticated, hand-held computational device (ok, cellphone) into a magical digital gourd with seeds that rattle upon invisible walls.

Language as Technology

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states language doesn’t just represent the world but actually shapes our reality. Learning new languages gives us portals into different worlds.

How to Stop Time

Quantum physics discovered that consciousness is entangled in matter in some inexplicable ways; but other than the very fast, or very small, or very large, we tend to assume our 'ordinary' reality conforms more to the laws of Newton. Simple cause and effect unfolding with clockwork constancy ---well, it's time to shatter this assumption. Let's stop time.