Issue 001 Autumn 2025

Creative risk

Editor's letter from Ben Miles

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

writings

Six writings from Josh Shiau, vignettes of life in NYC

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

High Places

Images and Words by Alex Hadik Foreword The ant climbed out of the basin and up onto the formation’s peak. It felt no sense of towering above its surroundings, because it had no fear of falling. It had been blown off of places higher than this many times without

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

Tufting Persian Mythology

By Rebecca Raha Radparvar Recently, I decided to tuft an illustration by Vida Farzaneh at the request of my parents. This illustration depicts Simurgh’s role in the birth of Rostam, a legendary hero from Persian mythology. The Simurgh is a benevolent, ancient bird in Persian and Iranian mythology. Simurgh

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

Everyday

A video

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

The spiritual potential of MRI

Words by Clayton Mellina At 9:30am on a still-overcast Monday morning in Redwood City, I'm exhausted as I navigate to my car in the parking lot of the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center. I've just emerged from my annual pilgrimage to the radiology clinic for a

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

From a Tennis Bottle Challenge to the Poisson Distribution

Words By Karan Sagar TennisTV’s “Bottle Challenge” at the Shanghai Masters TennisTV, in some underrated Shanghai Masters promo content, had professional players attempt a “bottle challenge”. Five bottles of different colors are lined up in front of you. The same five colors are hidden below them in some unknown

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

Surprise in the age of AI

As intelligence becomes modeled, surprise becomes endangered

Issue 001 Autumn 2025

FCC Console

A playful spin