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Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now
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Daniel Madison, Laura London, Jeremy Griffith, Xavior Spade, Doug McKenzie, Alex Pandrea, Adam Wilber, Franco Pascali, Danny Garcia, Tony Chang, Eric Hu, Larry Fong, Dynamo, Penn Jillette, Eric Jones, Mark Calabrese, Shin Lim, Peter Turner, Demian Aditya, Dan and Dave Buck, Elliott Terral, Damien O’Brien, Dee Christopher, Alex Harris, Matt Whittake
... See moreIan Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
probabilities attach themselves to the descriptions of events and not to events themselves.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Penn & Teller have never shied away from revealing the secrets behind some of their tricks, especially if divulging the method will make the audience’s experience more memorable. “If you understand a good magic trick, like if you really understand it down to the mechanics and the core of its psychology, the magic trick gets better—not worse,” T
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