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Words and Encantations
Take a tour through our small but growing garden of magical words and evocative phrases collected from around the world.
Lissajous: Meeting of Sines
When two vibrations meet, they do not argue—they dance. These Lissajous figures are not merely mathematical formulas; they are the visible poetry of harmony and resonance.
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.Books
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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
Bookmarks
Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
With plants that look right out of Avatar, cities might soon be lit by glowing foliage instead of streetlamps.
The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
A story about an unusual Japanese pop-up restaurant that serves a lesson along with food.