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“Born on a blue day” by Daniel Tammet
I saw a piece of a BBC documentary about a British savant, Daniel Tammet, and was fascinated, since contrary to…
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We all feel fine – and it shows
We Feel Fine is an incredible display of the power of the web to transform the way we think about…
Family Tree
Family Tree Originally uploaded by david.orban This is a partial view of my family tree, as it is growing on…
Try to help a hopeless 40 million euro online project in Italy, and get menacing emails
As reported by Bru, and originally posted on his blog by Maurizio, the Ritalia initiative that we started yesterday to…
What color is 2007?
One of the games I always play at the start of a new year is an excercise in synesthesia:what color…
Happy 2007 with the annual question of Edge.org!
The literary agent John Brockman, editor of the Edge.org website, asks each year a question to representatives of the third…
My photo in a Museum in British Columbia
Advent calendar Originally uploaded by david.orban. I have been recently contacted be a Museum of the city of Surrey in…
New apartment buildings
New apartment buildings Originally uploaded by david.orban. I am told these sell for five thousand dollars per square meter. No…
Signs of the past
Signs of the past Originally uploaded by david.orban. The lingering signs of the communist era express the physical difficulty of…