Episode One: The Weird Thing
Chloë suffers an intense headache in the middle of the night-- and witnesses the manifestation of an eerie sliver of light.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón,
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Featuring the song "Voices,"
written and performed by Anne-Marie Choon
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Featuring the song "Voices,"
written and performed by Anne-Marie Choon
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Music
Annotation A: Sonder • The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own • A word coined by writer John Koenig
Annotation B: Would the existence of time travel negate the concept of Free Will? • If you could travel back in time and alter someone's decision, and thus re-determine the future, would this also successfully eliminate their Free Will? • "Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?" asks PBS Space Time
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Annotation B: Would the existence of time travel negate the concept of Free Will? • If you could travel back in time and alter someone's decision, and thus re-determine the future, would this also successfully eliminate their Free Will? • "Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?" asks PBS Space Time
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Episode Two: A Wholesome Deception
Chloë is visited by a strange voice from beyond.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Prestidigitation
Annotation A: Semantic satiation • A word's temporary loss of meaning, following its repetition • SciShow Psych asks, "Why Does a Word Sometimes Lose All Meaning?"
Annotation B: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World by Margaret Cavendish • The first science fiction novel written by a woman • "Cavendish looks inward, freely exercising her subjective use of perspective over the worlds within her head," writes Anna Battigelli
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Annotation B: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World by Margaret Cavendish • The first science fiction novel written by a woman • "Cavendish looks inward, freely exercising her subjective use of perspective over the worlds within her head," writes Anna Battigelli
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Episode Three: Nightmare
Following her otherworldly visitation, Chloë conjectures her sleep paralysis might connect her to a dark spirit realm.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Medical
Annotation A: The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli • Among many other works of literature, some say Fuseli's painting influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher • See this painting at the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Annotation B: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya • Goya wrote a caption for this work saying, “Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.” • See and read more about this work from The Met
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Annotation B: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya • Goya wrote a caption for this work saying, “Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.” • See and read more about this work from The Met
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Episode Four: Limits of the Material Plane
A mysterious entity urges Chloë to crawl into an interstitial passageway and ascend to another plane of existence.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Logic
Annotation A: Liminal spaces • An intermediate space occupying a threshold, a boundary of thought and experience made manifest, often a place of waiting • "...those weird, atmospheric, and sometimes eerie places, that look like the gateway to another realm," writes RAMCPU, looking at art, information, and aesthetics for the online magazine sabukaru
Annotation B: Interstitial spaces • A space within tissues, in-between cells, filled with fluid • Odise Cenaj and colleagues conclude there is "evidence for continuity of interstitial spaces across tissue and organ boundaries in humans"
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Annotation B: Interstitial spaces • A space within tissues, in-between cells, filled with fluid • Odise Cenaj and colleagues conclude there is "evidence for continuity of interstitial spaces across tissue and organ boundaries in humans"
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Episode Five: Hypercube
Being asks Chloë to build a strange device to allow safe travel through the interstitial passageway.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Mathematics
Annotation A: Tesseract • The four-dimensional analogue of the cube, can be unfolded into eight cubes in 3D space • Appears in popular culture, including Robert Heinlein‘s short story, "And He Built a Crooked House" • Watch the 1978 computer animation The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing by Thomas Banchoff and Charles Strauss, winner of the Prix de la Recherche Fondamentale at the International Congress of Scientific Films in Brussels
Annotation B: Stompers trucks • Four-wheel drive, battery-powered toy vehicles created by A. Eddy Goldfarb • Watch a Stomper commercial from 1984
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Annotation B: Stompers trucks • Four-wheel drive, battery-powered toy vehicles created by A. Eddy Goldfarb • Watch a Stomper commercial from 1984
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Episode Six: The Place of Electric Thoughts
Chloë spends her last day on Earth indulging in her favorite things.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Nate DuFort,
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Spatial
Annotation A: Zeno's dichotomy paradox • The paradox of cutting in two, and why you'll never get where you're going by dividing the remaining distance in half • Watch biophysicist Colm Kelleher explain how to resolve going nowhere fast
Annotation B: Eidetic memory • The capacity to see an image in the mind's eye with high precision as if the image is still present, different from recalling a past event • Typically found only in young children • Fire up those neurons and learn about the differences between eidetic memory and photographic memory as explained by BBC Reel
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Annotation B: Eidetic memory • The capacity to see an image in the mind's eye with high precision as if the image is still present, different from recalling a past event • Typically found only in young children • Fire up those neurons and learn about the differences between eidetic memory and photographic memory as explained by BBC Reel
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Episode Seven: At the Uncanny Threshold
Chloë and Being need another brain to anchor the interstitial passageway and create a stable egress while regulating the pan-dimensional flux.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
Nate DuFort, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Nate DuFort, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: Composition
Annotation A: Temporal contiguity • The occasion of two stimuli experienced close together in time, forming an association between them • One event's reoccurrence will evoke the memory of the other • Read about psychology's contiguity priming and retrieval cues on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Annotation B: Pizza • Yum • Listen as Mike Pollock explains the Secret History of Pizza
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Annotation B: Pizza • Yum • Listen as Mike Pollock explains the Secret History of Pizza
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Episode Eight: A Possible Paradoxum
Trapped between contradictory possibilities, Chloë meets an unexpected enigma. The final episode.
Starring Tanja Milojevic, Christopher Colón, Erin B. Lillis,
Nate DuFort, Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Featuring the song "Voices,"
written and performed by Anne-Marie Choon
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Nate DuFort, Tatiana Grey, and Boyd Barrett as your Narrator
Featuring the song "Voices,"
written and performed by Anne-Marie Choon
Theme music by Katharine Seaton
Written and Produced by William J. Meyer
Transposition: ???
Annotation A: Transpiration • The continuous evaporation of water from plants during photosynthesis • Water molecules evaporate from the surface of leaves, pulling on the adjacent water molecule, creating a continuous flow of water out through the plant • Watch this animated video from Free Animated Education which answers the question, "What is Transpiration in Plants?"
Annotation B: Dissociation • Feeling disconnected from oneself, such as thoughts, feelings, memories, identity • Feeling detached from one's body as though the world was unreal • Often, a response to trauma
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Annotation B: Dissociation • Feeling disconnected from oneself, such as thoughts, feelings, memories, identity • Feeling detached from one's body as though the world was unreal • Often, a response to trauma
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