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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The ARG as a new model for Rennes-le-Château phenomenon
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            <description><![CDATA[In this post I will offer a new point of view from which to analyse the Rennes-le-Château phenomenon{Many thanks to my friend Ferdinando Buscema for his help in defining the features of ARGs and their core and to Marcus Williamson, who helped me in translating the original article in English}: I am suggesting that many modern approaches to the matter can be better interpreted as complex ARGs.
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            <title>Mathematical expressions producing Lost Six Numbers
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            <description><![CDATA[The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 are one of TV series Lost's most prominent recurring themes.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The infinite game of Rennes-le-Château
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the study of Rennes-le-Château and the ongoing revision of its mythology an elaborate game? Although irrelevant at first sight, this simple question prompts the development of an interesting model, applicable to many other areas of so-called "mysterious archeology."
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Timewave Zero analysis in R-Environment
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110630</link>
            <description><![CDATA["Timewave zero" is a numerological formula created by Terence McKenna which allegedly correlates time and history with the ebb and flow of something called "Novelty", claimed to be a quality intrinsic to the temporal structure of the universe, a measurement of universe's interconnectedness (or "organised complexity") over time: when its value increases, the amount of "novelty" decreases; the function will reach "zero" on 2012, the teleological attractor point of history, the singularity of infinite complexity.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Curse of the crystal skulls and other vanishing area puzzles
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110707</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As in Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953), mathematics can provide a shortcut to the Day of Judgement. But... is it worthwhile?
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A selection of vanishing puzzles
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            <description><![CDATA[:"The Magic Egg Puzzle" (1880)
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>My first magic book - Magic with Samsung Galaxy Tab
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110721</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The magic of trip-lets
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110723</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Essential Magic Conference logo is a trip-let, a 3-dimensional object shaped in such a way that its projections along three mutually perpendicular axes are three different letters of the alphabet.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the Rennes-le-Ch&#194;;teau phenomenon is really a infinite game, this summer 2011 triumphantly confirmed Pierre Plantard's role as its puppetmaster.
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Magic and Meaning in the Art of Ferdinando Buscema
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110830</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The world is full of magicians who are eager to demonstrate their abilities. As soon as they get a chance, they immediately commence with the classical invitation: "Pick a card!". Usually - and partly driven by kindness - we tend to go along with the magician without objections, though it would also be perfectly reasonable to reply: "Why should I?".
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Map of Andrea Ghisi's Laberinto
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20110922</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In 1607 Andrea Ghisi, a Venetian nobleman, published a peculiar book entitled Il laberinto del Signor Andrea Ghisi nel qual si contiene una tessitura di due mila ducento sessanta Figure, che aprendolo tre volte, con facilità si può saper qual figura si sia immaginata. The book begins with a dedication to the Prince of Mantua, Francesco Gonzaga (1577-1616), where the author describes his work as an "exercise of idleness": a recreational activity with no practical purpose, useful to recover energies and restore body and soul.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How we used number to read minds four centuries ago
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20111111</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the story of a mysterious book. An esoteric book, which keeps a secret. A magical book, because it gives its owner the power to read minds. A forgotten book that seems to come straight from a story by Jorge Luis Borges.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The interactive investigation of Alphonse Bertillon
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20111201</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the story of a criminologist using numbers to catch criminals. His name was Alphonse Bertillon. His dream was to capture Ravachol - a ruthless bandit, who had no qualms about killing women and children. Nobody knew what he looked like, and could be anyone. The Parisians had nicknamed the "Black Knight".
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Through the Looking Glass: an interactive exploration of the Other Side
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20111203</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In the book Absolute Magic Derren Brown writes that one major role of contemporary art is
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Slide le magicien et le trésor de Rennes-le-Chateau
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20111218</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In August 2011, during a week spent in Rennes-le-Ch&#194;;teau (Aude, France), I met Michel Estragues, a 14-years old magician named Slide le magicien.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The final countdown?
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20111221</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Today is 12.19.18.17.14. In a year, you will find me in Bugarach (Aude, France).
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A graffiti story
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The secret contraption behind the Nativity scene
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120101</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This page from Umberto Eco&rsquo;s The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana has always (nostalgically) reminded me of my grandfather's Nativity scene, also using a mysterious "big bottle with no neck" to animate it.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Jesus and the miracle of a beautiful idea
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120109</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I love the idea of a redemption consisting in the construction of beautiful narratives. Here, the idea expressed at its best by Umberto Eco in a novel (The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana) and in a letter to the Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A Neglected Shadow
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120117</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Paris. Louvre Museum. Richelieu wing. Second floor. Room fourteen. "The Sheperds of Arcadia", the representation of four shepherds in front of a tomb, was created by Nicolas Poussin around 1640. Its symbolic meaning was transparent to man for over three centuries, but during the 20th century it was completely lost. From the 60s its image started to be looked at with intrigue: maybe it was hiding a secret. How do we explain the modern mania to analyze paintings like they are puzzles?
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The world is astonishing
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120202</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the death of Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) here is an excerpt from her Nobel Lecture (1996). The Polish poet addresses the issue of Wonder, challenging the cynical biblical lament, "There is nothing new under the sun."
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Art, Content, and Over-interpretation
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120216</link>
            <description><![CDATA[What is the relationship between Art and Content? Banksy wrote that
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The mysterious amount that goes undetected in our lives
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120217</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Edge is an online magazine whose purpose is to explore scientific and intellectual ideas, inviting "sophisticated minds" to answer profound questions in a manner readily accessible to non-specialist public.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>We are our stories - A neural approach
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120221</link>
            <description><![CDATA[During an interview Salman Rushdie introduced the role of storytelling in defining a human being:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Interactive version of &quot;Graceful Thought&quot; by Pietro Millioni
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120223</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pietro Millioni was an Italian composer and author lived in 17th century. In 1649 he published a book of secrets entitled Gratioso pensiero (Graceful Thought){Pietro Millioni, Gratioso pensiero, per mezzo del quale ciascuno puol saper dire non solo il Nome, Patria, & Arte di qual si voglia persona. Ma anco il mese, il giorno, e l&rsquo;hora, ch&rsquo;è nato, & altre curiosità. Inuentato da Pietro Millioni, e di nuouo ristampato dal medesimo, con l&rsquo;accrescimento di molti giuochi cuoriosi. In Roma, et in Siena, Alla Loggia del Papa, Con licenza de&rsquo; Super. 1649.}.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Interactive Neuro Bill
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120308</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A lot of banknotes have had a troubled life. Part of their stories are hidden in their serial numbers.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rennes-le-Château: Bérenger Saunière Museum Virtual Tour
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120318</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I have just completed the Bérenger Saunière Museum Virtual Tour, a multimedia website offering the visitor insights, documents and historical material related to the mystery linked to Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Hollywood Boulevard in cinemagraph
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120406</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Wait some seconds and&hellip;
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Soyga: the book that kills
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120423</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There is a book which is a faithful representation of the Universe.Borges would have loved its story. Here it is.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mathematical puzzles with the &quot;Book of Soyga&quot;
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120501</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A magical book of the 16th century (discover it here) can be used as a tool for funny mathematical puzzles. The letters on the tables of the "Book of Soyga" are not distributed at random, and a study of their regularities may reveal curious details and does not require knowledge of higher mathematics.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Secret message of the Stupid Fun Club coin: solved!
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120510</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On May 9, 2012 Mark Frauenfelder publishes on BoingBoing the photograph of a strange coin. He received it during a visit to the Stupid Fun Club in Berkeley.{Tnx to Ferdinando Buscema.} Assuming that it hides something, Mark writes:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>27, a number that kills?
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120515</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Are there places acting like magnets, which attract artists under the curse of a fatal number?
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Trickster and the Cyclothymic
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120615</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some years ago I have been diagnosed a mild form of cyclothymia, a chronic mood disorder characterized by periods of hypomanic symptoms alternating with periods of depression. Long before recognising this disorder, as a science writer and magician I have professionally spread the sense of Wonder within my books, lectures and shows, choosing for myself the (rather odd) job title of &lsquo;Wonder Injector&rsquo;. Only recently I have acknowledged that my sense of awe is a precious gift sprang up from my cyclothymia, a endless and healthy flow of wonder feeding my job, my books and my creativity.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mutants and mystics - The Italian Spiderman
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20120918</link>
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>An automatical analysis of Kruskal paths
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20121015</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It is impossible to count the vast number of methods of finding God. One path deals with mathematics.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Looking at the Mole with a mathematical gaze
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20121022</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Mole Antonelliana is the architectural symbol of Turin, my city. In 1873, at a height of 167 metres (556 ft), it was the tallest building in Europe.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The weeping column: Magic and Meaning in Istanbul
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20121220</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is easy to find a good metaphorical context for a magic trick. The "cut and restore rope trick" deals clearly with the archetype of restoration. "Cups and Balls" involve all the basic magic effects (appearance, vanish, transposition and penetration) and may be used to tell a number of stories. "Sawing a woman in half trick" has to do with the power of the magician over Life and Death.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Valentine's Day Equation
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130209</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Valentine's Day is coming. Go to Wolfram Alpha and input this equation:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>My Moleskine&amp;reg; &quot;The Power of Love&quot;, a meditation tool
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130306</link>
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Moleskine &quot;The Power of Love&quot; official promo
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130314</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Istituto Europeo di Design has released the official stop-motion promo of my Moleskine &ldquo;The Power of Love&rdquo;:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The 16th century computer and the book that kills
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130322</link>
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Happy Good Friday with Jesus the Magician
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130331</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Happy Good Friday with &ldquo;Jesus performing Cups & Balls Trick&rdquo;, from an idea by Pat Patterson Lyons.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Inferno, the new thriller by Dan Brown, will be released around the world on May 14. The date has not been chosen at random: it is written 5-14-13, which read backwards 3.1415 - the value of pi.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How to create chocolate out of nothing 
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            <description><![CDATA[Do you want to solve world hunger with magic? Slice a chocolare bar into 4 pieces and rearrange 3 of them: you will get the original bar plus a square, appeared out of nothing. Repeating the procedure, you can produce as much chocolate as you want. This tutorial will teach you how to do it:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How to create two linking rings out of a newspaper
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            <description><![CDATA[Do you want to get two linking rings from a single page of a newspaper? This tutorial will teach you how to do it:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[What is really mentalism? Wikipedia limits it to
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Accumulation of faith creates its own veracity
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            <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles (1915-1985) was born exactly 98 years ago. In an interview by Kenneth Tynan, published in Playboy on 1967, he comments about his alleged clairvoyant power and his idea that &ldquo;accumulation of faith creates its own veracity&rdquo;:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Magic as something which defies verbalization
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            <description><![CDATA[My video tutorial &ldquo;How to create two linking rings out of a newspaper&rdquo; got viral (more than 50K visits in a couple of weeks) also raising some disappointment. Because the tutorial... was actually not a honest tutorial! Some labeled the video as &ldquo;fake&rdquo;, suspecting that CGI was involved in its creation. It was not. The missing part is the setup of the newspaper; with the proper arrangement, the video depicts something which can be performed live in front of an audience.{I have seen it performed live by Ian Rowland in Abano Terme, Italy in 2004.}
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Checking identities: is RealMaxMaven the real Max Maven?
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130515</link>
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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