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≡ Category: Film, Math | ≅ 3 Comments
For centuries, artists and architects have used some well-known geometrical and mathematical formulas to guide their work: The Fibonacci Series and Spiral, The Golden and Angle Ratios, The Delauney Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations, etc. These formulas have a reality beyond the minds of mathematicians. They present themselves in nature, and that’s what a Spanish filmmaker, [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick fyi: Amazon has released an app that will let you read Kindle texts on your Mac (finally!) and the upcoming iPad. If you’re looking for free Kindle texts, we’ve produced a long list here, including many great classics. You can find Kindle apps (all free) for other devices below. Kindle for Tablet Computers (this [...]
≡ Category: Wikipedia | ≅ Leave a Comment
Wikipedia is now opening the online encyclopedia to video, giving contributors a new way to convey information in a richer way. And they’re making a point of using video in an open format (Ogg Theora). Among the confluence of factors coming together in 2010 are: 1) the growing awareness that video is the dominant medium [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 5 Comments
Right in time for the weekend… Working in partnership with Stella Artois, TheAuteurs.com is now featuring a selection of its favorite films that have played at the Cannes Film Festival. The lineup, including many prize winners, features movies by Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Wong Kar-wai (Happy Together), Michelangelo Antonioni (L’avventura), Jacques Tati (Mon oncle), and others. [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 6 Comments
Here’s a little nugget for you. The great inventor Thomas Edison visited the home of Mark Twain in 1909, and captured footage of “the father of American literature” (says Faulkner) walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughters, Clara and Jean. The film is silent and deteriorated. But it’s apparently the only known [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ 1 Comment
Lots of new archives have been coming online lately. So, why not give them a quick mention. CSPAN: This week, the American cable network finally completed the digitization of its vast video archive. What does that mean for you? It means you can access online every C-SPAN program aired since 1987. 160,000 hours of video [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ 9 Comments
A couple of days ago, we featured a video posted on Penguin’s YouTube Channel that used a smart video technique to restore faith in the future of book publishing. A couple of our readers were quick to point out that the video’s creative element was highly similar to an award-winning video called “Lost Generation”. (See [...]
≡ Category: Life, Science | ≅ 4 Comments
Robert Sapolsky  – one of the world’s leading neurobiologists, a MacArthur Fellow, Stanford professor, and author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers — breaks down an intriguing question. Precisely in what ways are we (humans) different from other animals inhabiting our world? The differences are fewer than we think. But there are some, and they’ll make [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ 3 Comments
Smart and hopeful. But you need to stick with it for a couple of minutes. A job well done…
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics | ≅ Leave a Comment
BigThink asked Dr. Michio Kaku to sum up Einstein’s legacy in a nutshell. Above, you get his attempt in a quick minute. Obviously, this is just beginning to scratch the surface, and knowing you, you want to go deeper. So here you go: Leonard Susskind, a world famous physicist, offered a series of six courses [...]
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