china Disabled dancers perform the thousand-hand Bodhisattva Andrea James

minimalism Everyone (No One?) should read this New York Times Magazine article about the commodification of nothingness Thom Dunn

religion Japan's robot deity delivers Buddha's teaching David Pescovitz

art Hearing impaired dancers become a 'thousand armed' goddess Xeni Jardin

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

psychedelics Today is the 74th anniversary of Albert Hofmann's first LSD trip Lisa Rein

drugs Timothy Leary's archivist on Leary's prison escape, Algerian exile, and Swiss prison-time Cory Doctorow

Old school The origin story of the Timothy Leary archives Cory Doctorow

books Memento Mori: the beautiful ways we have kept the dead among the living Cory Doctorow

tibet The Dalai Lama Will Not Return to Lead Tibet (He Has Something Better in Mind) Jason Louv