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            <description><![CDATA[In this post{First published on 2 May 2008.} I will offer a new point of view from which to analyse the Rennes-le-Ch&#194;;teau phenomenon: 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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The infinite game of Rennes-le-Ch&amp;#194;;teau
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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-Ch&amp;#194;;teau: B&amp;eacute;renger Sauni&amp;egrave;re 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 B&eacute;renger Sauni&egrave;re Museum Virtual Tour, a multimedia website offering the visitor insights, documents and historical material related to the mystery linked to Dan Brown&rsquo;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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            <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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            <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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            <title>The secret codes in Dan Brown's Inferno
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130402</link>
            <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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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <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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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130409</link>
            <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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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130421</link>
            <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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            <title>Maurits Escher and mentalism (Mariano Tomatis and Ferdinando Buscema)
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130503</link>
            <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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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130506</link>
            <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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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130509</link>
            <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>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <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>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Train of thought
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130522</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Is this train coming into or leaving the Charing Cross station? Focus on it and you'll be able to change its direction!{Source}
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A thought on happiness by Raymond Smullyan
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130525</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Raymond Smullyan was born 94 years ago in New York.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Magic, what a therapeutic tool&amp;mdash; not!
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130529</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In his autobiography Nothing Is Impossible, English magician Dynamo describes magic as a tool to emancipate from playground bullying, racial abuse and a difficult family. This kind of narrative is repeatedly stressed in the book:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>On Dante&amp;rsquo;s tomb
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130601</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dan Brown&rsquo;s novel Inferno has been released on May 14th.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Women in half
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130603</link>
            <description><![CDATA[My documentary about femicide and magic.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A magician at &amp;ldquo;La Repubblica delle Idee&amp;rdquo; in Florence
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130605</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Dan Brown&amp;rsquo;s re-enchanted world
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130606</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>I sawed her in half for love
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130607</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Orhan Pamuk and the stories shaping reality
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130608</link>
            <description><![CDATA[During the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer was praised for his ability to recreate &mdash; in his novels &mdash; &ldquo;credible&rdquo; narrative places:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The &quot;ballerina ballot&quot;: the trick revealed by Roberto Saviano
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130609</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Fellini, Sorrentino and magic as a metaphor
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130610</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Serena Dandini&amp;rsquo;s two creative wavelengths
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130611</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Eco, Bartezzaghi and the irony of adverbs
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130614</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Bilocation? Today it is possible. On the evening of June 8th I was in the Teatro Verdi in Florence, to see &ldquo;Ferite a morte&rdquo; by Serena Dandini, and at the same time in the Palazzo Vecchio, enjoying the conversation between Umberto Eco and Stefano Bartezzaghi. Miracles of the Internet, which has allowed me to enjoy both events taking place at the same time, thanks to the video made available a few hours after the event on the website of La Repubblica delle idee.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>We were used to cut along the edges
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130616</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Magicians are not the only ones cutting women. Advertisers do it in a more subtle way, persuading them to do it by themselves.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Kierkegaard and the dual nature of anxiety
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130627</link>
            <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;La fuga e il silenzio&rdquo; (&ldquo;The escape and the silence&rdquo;), a solo exhibition of Miro Gianola, will be inaugurated in exactly one month. The exhibition catalog will offer this brief comment of mine in the margin of one of the proposed works.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Transposable aphorisms from Pitigrilli to Marty Hines
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130630</link>
            <description><![CDATA[During a recent interview held in Italy during the event La Repubblica delle Idee, Dan Brown paraphrased a well-known quote by Alfred Hitchcock. The next day, the newspaper Repubblica cited the aphorism in two different versions.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The na&amp;iuml;ve and the sentimental spectator
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130701</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Precognitive shadow
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130716</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a shadow anticipating a future action? Look at the green disk and its shadow in this non-Photoshopped image:
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Raining money, from Bulgakov to &quot;Now You See Me&quot;
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130722</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I can find just a single strong symbolic point in Now You See Me &mdash; the latest film by Louis Leterrier: the idea of gifting spectators with actual money.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rennes-le-Ch&amp;#194;;teau, an open work
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130725</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Circlemaking does whatever it wants
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130819</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the most beautiful crop circle of this year appeared in Italy, in Robella (Asti), on the night between 29 and 30 June.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Becoming Spider-Man? Yes, in London you can
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20130822</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Kavita Parmar and the stories fostering gratitude
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20131012</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Past, Present and Future in three magic experiences
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20131116</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Being a magician does not require a stage, a strange hat or a bag full of tricks. Daily life offers lots of opportunities to create unusual (or even impossible) situations, breaking into reality with apparently magical events. To define such a fascinating task, Ferdinando Buscema coined the term Magic Experience Design. In order to make you appreciate its potential, here are three striking examples, involving the concept of Time and offering food for thought about Past, Present and Future.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>50 years after JFK&amp;rsquo;s death: the sad story of the forgetful mentalist
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20131118</link>
            <description></description>
            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Biggest drawing in world: four steps between Heart and Mind
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20131210</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Making Heart and Mind work together is a goal toward which we are push by gurus, philosophers, religious leaders &mdash; and scientists, much more rarely. Balancing humanistic and scientific disciplines is a good way to harmonize the two hemispheres of the brain, logic and intuition, ingenuity and recklessness. Many people advocate the idea, but rarely they support it with a good practical example.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The catalog of our Wunderkammer next April in Italian bookstores
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140115</link>
            <description><![CDATA[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 that will also be available in Italian bookstores, starting from next April. But let&rsquo;s start from the very beginning.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The art of astonishment in everyday life
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140129</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In The Last Lecture Randy Pausch tells a story from his childhood.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Magic to the People!
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140130</link>
            <description><![CDATA[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 uncle. Half an hour later the scene was repeated &mdash; and so it went, for all day long.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Moor Eeffoc is the secret code for happiness
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140220</link>
            <description><![CDATA[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 the protagonist of the famous novel written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Keri Smith pays homage to our book &amp;ldquo;Amaze&amp;rdquo;
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140323</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The first test is to hold the book above one&rsquo;s head for as long as possible.
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Working for a better Rule #34
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140608</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Magic and hypnosis: keeping trickery out of the door
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140609</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Technological magic: the short story of Google Mind
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140610</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Sawing a woman in half? A political message
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140611</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Experientializing goods with magic
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140612</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mesmeristic treatments and artistic barricades
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140613</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Knuth&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Disappearances&amp;rdquo;: my Oulipian creative tool
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140615</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Who is gonna lose the head?
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140616</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
            <category>Blog</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Alexander and his magic tricks in the 2nd century
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            <link>http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/index.php?post=20140619</link>
            <description><![CDATA[First published here on Mariano&rsquo;s Scifoo14 blog
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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            <author>mariano.tomatis@gmail.com (Mariano Tomatis)</author>
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