A young magician wrote to Teller (of Penn and…) to ask for advice about creating his own style, and what he got back was a manifesto for anyone who wants to create, perform or entertain. It’s blockbuster stuff, for which I am an absolute sucker… We made a solemn vow not to take any job [...]
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What’s the ideal comics series to read with a group of 10-11 year-old boys needing encouragement to read?
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Extraordinary London transport map
This is an extraordinarily detailed map of London transport, showing lines and depots but also dates of construction, on a real topography. And for some extraordinary reason, it’s French…
Classic Top Of The Pops (by TVGCity)
Classic Top Of The Pops (by TVGCity)
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic
I’ve never seen a world-class sized publication that was founded in the past decade do world class quality work. It’s not because the people running them are dumb–it’s because they don’t have enough time to think their work through because there’s no short term incentive to. There’s an excuse there aren’t enough resources to go [...]
Letters of Note: To My Old Master
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. Letters of [...]
What happened before the Big Bang?
In December, a group of professors from America’s top philosophy departments, including Columbia, Yale, and NYU, set out to establish the philosophy of cosmology as a new field of study within the philosophy of physics. The group aims to bring a philosophical approach to the basic questions at the heart of physics, including those concerning [...]
The Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty
The point here isn’t that piracy by American consumers is somehow completely independent from output or employment rates in the content industries—though, again, that’s not at all the same thing as the overall U.S. employment rate. Obviously, at some level it has to have some effect. But the link is, to use the technical economic [...]
