How Magic can be the Elixir of Life? The unusual question will be at the core of the magic talk I will give tomorrow afternoon at Tobacco Dock, London for the WIRED 2014 event “The Future is Clo…
Before leaving home for San Francisco by airplane I cited Louis C.K.’s routine about the (forgotten) joy of “partaking the miracle of human flight.” Yet I couldn’t imagine that…
First published here on Mariano’s Scifoo14 blog
The first test is to hold the book above one’s head for as long as possible.
When asked how to become magicians, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) suggested to get inspired by David Copperfield. No, not the one who made the Statue of Liberty disappear: Chesterton was referring to th…
When I was a child, every half hour I ran to the hen-house to check if the chicken had laid an egg. Incredible as it may sound, every time I found one. Brimming with enthusiasm, I brought it to my unc…
In The Last Lecture Randy Pausch tells a story from his childhood.
We eventually did it. We have built a Wunderkammer. Me and Ferdinando. Filled with what we love the most. Its story begins with a metaphor: a brilliant image that has deeply inspired our work. A work…
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