29 January 2005 Issue Contents

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How to do an infinite number of things before breakfast
Find you're always running behind? Then it's time you learned about infinity engines and how to supertask, says cosmologist John D Barrow
Supertasking with the genie of the lamp
Got a spare minute? That's all you need to investigate space, time and the limits of knowledge
Future sense
Senses special: Doors of perception
Taste, sight, sound, smell and touch. Is this really the only way we experience the world, asks Bruce Durie
Senses special: The art of seeing without sight
Esref Armagan paints vivid, realistic pictures. How can he do this when he has always been blind, asks Alison Motluk
Senses special: The feeling of colour
You may think there's a picture of the world in glorious technicolour inside your head. But it's an illusion, says Helen Phillips

Washington diary

Don't get caught again; Awash with cholera; Fascist bees; Walk this way; Radio rage; Toxic moss; Pendulum puzzle; Simulation signals; Fit or fat?; Parking point; Miaowing babies; For the record; Techy effect;