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≡ Category: Film, Sci Fi, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1941, director Dave Fleischer and Paramount Pictures animators Steve Muffati and George Germanetti produced Superman: The Mechanical Monsters — a big-budget animated adaptation of the popular Superman comics of that period, in which a mad scientist unleashes robots to rob banks and loot museums, and Superman, naturally, saves the day. It was one of [...]
≡ Category: Art, Education, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Paola Antonelli — Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the MoMA, longtime proponent of humanized technology, self-described “curious octopus” — has arguably done more for the mainstream infiltration of design literacy than any other individual in contemporary culture. In her recent opening keynote at the unequivocally titled media and ideas conference The Conference in [...]
≡ Category: History, Music, Technology, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 6 Comments
Composer and instrument inventor Harry Partch (1901-1974) is one of the pioneers of 20th-century experimental instrumentation, known for writing and playing music on incredible custom-made instruments like the Boo II and the Quadrangularis Reversum, and laying the foundations for many of today’s most creative experimental musical instruments. In this Universal Newsreel footage from the 1950s, [...]
≡ Category: Film, History, Life, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Comments Off
The recent 9.0-magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accidents were among the most devastating environmental disasters in recorded history. The immediate consequences are frightening, but their full, long-term impact remains an unsettling mystery. This, of course, isn’t the first time Japan has faced a nuclear emergency. After the World War II atomic [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Film, Politics, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
Much has been said, tweeted and written about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, glorifying it as one of the most landmark triumphs of freedom in recent history. Yet the Western media has delivered surprisingly little on its aftermath, leaving the lived post-revolution reality of the Egyptian people a near-mystery. This beautiful short film by British film [...]
≡ Category: Books, History, Literature, Stanford | ≅ 2 Comments
Read 12 of the greatest Sherlock Holmes stories for free, courtesy of Standford.
≡ Category: Film, Physics, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 7 Comments
A fascinating 20-minute documentary exploring the universe’s immense scale of distance and time.
≡ Category: History, Politics, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
A beautiful black-and-white typographic animation of Lincoln’s iconic speech.
≡ Category: Life, Psychology, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 8 Comments
Iconic British comedian John Cleese offers unexpected intellectual insight on what hinders creativity and how to create the conditions to foster it.
≡ Category: History, Politics, Television, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 1 Comment
In May of 1961, a 42-year-old Mandela gave his first-ever interview to ITN reporter Brian Widlake, who meets Mandela in his secret hideout.
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