MARIANO TOMATIS

WONDER INJECTOR

Writer of science with the
mission of the magician:
to encourage people
to approach life in
a state of Wonder.

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3 February 2015 The Secret Art of Book Hacking in New York

15 October 2014 How Magic can be the Elixir of Life

16 August 2014 Todd Reichert’s wing flapping aircraft

15 August 2014 Four bookstores with great and cheap books in San Francisco

14 August 2014 Unearthing failures in a land of winners

13 August 2014 Forbidden apples and musical bubbles in the art of Charlotte Jarvis

12 August 2014 Cultivating wonder: the contribution by Jason Salavon

11 August 2014 Artificial paradises from Hasan-i Sabbah to Silicon Valley

10 August 2014 Italian interactive magic books, back to life

9 August 2014 The Shortest and Funniest Mesmeric Act Ever... Online

7 August 2014 You’re sitting in a chair in the sky!

6 August 2014 Re-enchanting airports with the Five Cent Koan

30 July 2014 Making things look like magic by any means necessary

26 July 2014 Magic for Palestine

23 July 2014 Magic to the People

22 July 2014 From Turin to Bay Area for the funniest Mesmeric Act ever

21 July 2014 How to create two linking rings out of a newspaper

8 July 2014 A Mathemagical Lab for educators

7 July 2014 Frederik Pohl’s Camp in a Starship

5 July 2014 The Final Secret of the Illuminati

3 July 2014 A “Hey, but… it’s me!” experience for your friends

27 June 2014 Be smark! Lucid self-delusion in Robert-Houdin’s magic

26 June 2014 My magic celebration of the TV series Lost

25 June 2014 The man who (didn’t) walk across the river Seine

21 June 2014 Angelo Monne’s unexpected metaphors

19 June 2014 Alexander and his magic tricks in the 2nd century

16 June 2014 Who is gonna lose the head?

15 June 2014 Knuth’s “Disappearances”: my Oulipian creative tool

13 June 2014 Mesmeristic treatments and artistic barricades

12 June 2014 Experientializing goods with magic

11 June 2014 Sawing a woman in half? A political message

10 June 2014 Technological magic: the short story of Google Mind

9 June 2014 Magic and hypnosis: keeping trickery out of the door

8 June 2014 Working for a better Rule #34

23 March 2014 Keri Smith pays homage to our book “Amaze”

20 February 2014 Moor Eeffoc is the secret code for happiness

30 January 2014 Magic to the People!

29 January 2014 The art of astonishment in everyday life

15 January 2014 The catalog of our Wunderkammer next April in Italian bookstores

10 December 2013 Biggest drawing in world: four steps between Heart and Mind

18 November 2013 50 years after JFK’s death: the sad story of the forgetful mentalist

16 November 2013 Past, Present and Future in three magic experiences

12 October 2013 Kavita Parmar and the stories fostering gratitude

22 August 2013 Becoming Spider-Man? Yes, in London you can

19 August 2013 Circlemaking does whatever it wants

25 July 2013 Rennes-le-Château, an open work

22 July 2013 Raining money, from Bulgakov to "Now You See Me"

16 July 2013 Precognitive shadow

1 July 2013 The naïve and the sentimental spectator

30 June 2013 Transposable aphorisms from Pitigrilli to Marty Hines

27 June 2013 Kierkegaard and the dual nature of anxiety

16 June 2013 We were used to cut along the edges

14 June 2013 Eco, Bartezzaghi and the irony of adverbs

11 June 2013 Serena Dandini’s two creative wavelengths

10 June 2013 Fellini, Sorrentino and magic as a metaphor

9 June 2013 The "ballerina ballot": the trick revealed by Roberto Saviano

8 June 2013 Orhan Pamuk and the stories shaping reality

7 June 2013 I sawed her in half for love

6 June 2013 Dan Brown’s re-enchanted world

5 June 2013 A magician at “La Repubblica delle Idee” in Florence

3 June 2013 Women in half

1 June 2013 On Dante’s tomb

29 May 2013 Magic, what a therapeutic tool— not!

25 May 2013 A thought on happiness by Raymond Smullyan

22 May 2013 Train of thought

15 May 2013 Checking identities: is RealMaxMaven the real Max Maven?

9 May 2013 Magic as something which defies verbalization

6 May 2013 Accumulation of faith creates its own veracity

3 May 2013 Maurits Escher and mentalism (Mariano Tomatis and Ferdinando Buscema)

21 April 2013 How to create two linking rings out of a newspaper

9 April 2013 How to create chocolate out of nothing

2 April 2013 The secret codes in Dan Brown's Inferno

31 March 2013 Happy Good Friday with Jesus the Magician

22 March 2013 The 16th century computer and the book that kills

14 March 2013 Moleskine "The Power of Love" official promo

6 March 2013 My Moleskine® "The Power of Love", a meditation tool

9 February 2013 Valentine's Day Equation

20 December 2012 The weeping column: Magic and Meaning in Istanbul

22 October 2012 Looking at the Mole with a mathematical gaze

15 October 2012 An automatical analysis of Kruskal paths

18 September 2012 Mutants and mystics - The Italian Spiderman

15 June 2012 The Trickster and the Cyclothymic

15 May 2012 27, a number that kills?

10 May 2012 Secret message of the Stupid Fun Club coin: solved!

1 May 2012 Mathematical puzzles with the "Book of Soyga"

23 April 2012 Soyga: the book that kills

6 April 2012 Hollywood Boulevard in cinemagraph

18 March 2012 Rennes-le-Château: Bérenger Saunière Museum Virtual Tour

8 March 2012 Interactive Neuro Bill

23 February 2012 Interactive version of "Graceful Thought" by Pietro Millioni

21 February 2012 We are our stories - A neural approach

17 February 2012 The mysterious amount that goes undetected in our lives

16 February 2012 Art, Content, and Over-interpretation

2 February 2012 The world is astonishing

17 January 2012 A Neglected Shadow

9 January 2012 Jesus and the miracle of a beautiful idea

1 January 2012 The secret contraption behind the Nativity scene

26 December 2011 A graffiti story

21 December 2011 The final countdown?

18 December 2011 Slide le magicien et le trésor de Rennes-le-Chateau

3 December 2011 Through the Looking Glass: an interactive exploration of the Other Side

1 December 2011 The interactive investigation of Alphonse Bertillon

22 November 2011 Commodore Vic-20 @ Milan Subway

11 November 2011 How we used number to read minds four centuries ago

22 September 2011 The Map of Andrea Ghisi's Laberinto

30 August 2011 Magic and Meaning in the Art of Ferdinando Buscema

27 August 2011 Rennes-le-Château and the successful narrative of Pierre Plantard

24 July 2011 The infinite game of Rennes-le-Château

23 July 2011 The magic of trip-lets

21 July 2011 My first magic book - Magic with Samsung Galaxy Tab

15 July 2011 A selection of vanishing puzzles

7 July 2011 Curse of the crystal skulls and other vanishing area puzzles

30 June 2011 Timewave Zero analysis in R-Environment

23 June 2011 The infinite game of Rennes-le-Château

17 June 2011 Mathematical expressions producing Lost Six Numbers

10 June 2011 The ARG as a new model for Rennes-le-Château phenomenon

29 May 2011 Times Square in cinemagraph