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Dreaming in Maven

A Bizarre Dream I once had a dream about Max Maven telling us — I don’t remember who “us” is — a story. In the story he talked about a time that his mind was opened by some experience. He described it as having his “brain beaten back to salt.” …

Free Your Mind

Remember the day when the world was all abuzz with murmurings of that David Copperfield guy making the Statue of Liberty vanish? I wonder how that brainstorming session went. Did his team think he was crazy? How did he come up with the idea? Did he have the method or …

Everybody Likes Magic

Wanna See a Magic Trick? We’ve all done it. You walk up to a table or someone in the “streets” or your friends/family and asked the . . . ahem . . . magic question, “Do you wanna see a magic trick?” Somewhere along the way, it’s changed from us …