Category: Entertainment
3-Point Space & Time
May 29, 2022The Dwarf and the Giant
October 27, 2020Co-Ex Interface
September 27, 2014Abundance Fantasies: The Alasitas Pathway
March 7, 2014The Fear of the Gods
February 3, 2014Abundance Fantasies: Giant Sushi Roll
September 12, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Exaggeration Cards
August 30, 2013Exaggeration cards are picture postcards depicting enormously oversized fruits, vegetables and livestock. First appearing in Fresno in 1905 the cards quickly struck a chord throughout the western United States. These “tall-tale postcards” became especially prevalent in small town rural communities hoping to forge an identity…
This Crowded Earth
November 30, 2012Subliminal Tinker Bell
November 9, 2012Munchkin Statistics
September 6, 2012TEDx Lecture on Shrinking
June 10, 2012(Mad) Scientist Fiction
October 24, 2011Mankind seems so indoctrinated to think bigger that sometimes the mere suggestion that we should become smaller is thoughtlessly rejected as mad science. Ever since the 20th century our relationship with science, vacillating between science as the salvation of society or its doom, has been personified by…
Relic Paulina
September 8, 2011Japanese Miniatures: Prepping Tiny Plastic Food
August 23, 2011Supersize Tourism
June 14, 2011Small Wonder
May 14, 2011Shrink Rays
March 17, 2011A shrink ray is any device which uses energy to reduce the physical size of matter. Although the laws of quantum physics don’t allow the miniaturizing of atoms and shrink rays do not exist (perhaps with the exception of electromagnetic forming) they feature quite prominently in popular fantasy and science…