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≡ Category: Art, Video - Science | ≅ 4 Comments
It’s the second time we have Spain in time lapse video this week. First, the historical landscape of Central Spain. Now El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain, and the home to one of the world’s best observatories. This drop-dead gorgeous footage (click here to watch expanded version) was captured just days ago by Terje Sorgjerd, whose [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 10 Comments
This week, Yale University rolled out its latest batch of open courses. This release, the first since October 2009, features 10 new courses, and brings the total number to 35. Find the complete list here. We have listed the new additions below, and added them to our ever-growing list of 350Â Free Online Courses. As always, [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 4 Comments
In his online bio, Penn State lecturer Phillip McReynolds confesses his “unhealthy fascination with movies.”  McReynolds channels that obsession to healthy effect in his documentary “American Philosopher.” The film — which is really a series of 8 shorts – features interviews with Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Crispin Sartwell, Richard Bernstein, and many other prominent philosophers. [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Physics | ≅ 3 Comments
To kick off this wonderful episode of Science Friday (listen here or below), physicist Lawrence M. Krauss suggests that science and art ask the same fundamental question: Who are we, and what is our place in the universe? Over the next hour, Krauss is joined in his exploration of this question by the great filmmaker [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 4 Comments
Walter Kaufmann spent 33 years (1947-1980) teaching philosophy at Princeton. And more than anyone else, Kaufmann introduced Nietzsche’s philosophy to the English-speaking world and made it possible to take Nietzsche seriously as a thinker – something there wasn’t always room to do in American intellectual circles. Without simplifying things too much, Kaufmann saw Nietzsche as [...]
≡ Category: Technology, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Working for Eastman Kodak back in 1975, Steven Sasson, an electrical engineer by training, was tasked with building a camera that used solid state electronics and solid state imagers to capture optical information. Or, put very simply, he was asked to build the first digital camera. And he did just that. In the latest of [...]
≡ Category: History, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
Central Spain – The Goths, Romans, and Moors left their mark on the region. Don Quijote fought against the windmills here, and El Greco, Velasquez and Francisco de Goya made their homes in this historically and culturally rich region. Now, a tourist, armed with a Nikon D90, brings that history to life with two quick [...]
≡ Category: Film, Poetry, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
A few years ago, the geniuses over at Four Seasons Productions began shooting evocative short films set to classic poetry. 21 finished pieces, a long list of festival prizes and a full DVD later, many of their best “poem videos” are now available to watch for free on their YouTube channel. These short pieces capture [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
The evolution of Stanley Kubrick’s early career looks something like this. A young Kubrick graduates from high school in 1945, and almost immediately starts working for LOOK Magazine as a photojournalist, where he masters his visual craft. (You can see a good sampling of his photographic work right here.) By the early 1950s, Kubrick has [...]
≡ Category: History, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of manned space travel, Attic Room Productions has released First Orbit, a 99-minute free film that recreates Yuri Gagarin’s historic launch into space on April 12, 1961 — in real time. We watched the whole film, which was shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. And it’s [...]
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