May 2010
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Earth: 650 Million Years In 1:20 Min. This ultra time-lapse simulation of tectonic drift shows how dynamic our planet is. The clip portrays the most recent 400 million-year geological history of the continents of Earth, and a prediction of its next 250 million years.
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“A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it throught...”
– Irving Biederman & E.A. Vessel, Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain (pdf), American Scientist, Volume 94, 2006.
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“ William Blake, “I Want! I Want!” 1793, Engraving, Butlin 201 40 ...”
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Alberti’s window
Illustration above: an open frame gridded by perpendicular threads through which the artist should view the scene to be painted, and then transfer the coordinate details in scale onto his similarly gridded picture. In essence, even if inadvertent, it shifted the purpose of perspective painting not as a depiction of divine mystery revealed by geometry, but as worldly perfection framed by...
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A brief history of writing
(Photo: Babylonian legal tablet from Alalakh in its clay envelope, British Museum) “True writing, or phonetic writing, records were developed independently in four different civilizations in the world. Writing systems developed from neolithic writing in the Early Bronze Age (4th millennium BC). The invention of the phonetic...
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Mark Changizi on brain’s perception of the world
“When light hits our retina, what our brains would like to do is instantaneously generate a perception of what the world looks like. Alas, our brain can’t do this instantaneously. Our brains are slow. It takes around a tenth of a second for your perception to be built, and that’s a long time when you’re moving about. If...
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WatchA Drifting Up by Reza Ali
This is an audio-reactive algorithmic visual art piece that uses the concept of charged particles and flocking to simulate a organism that is alive and composed of micro-organisms. - Source, (audio: Jon Hopkins - “A Drifting Up”)
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WatchTurning Into Gods - ‘Concept Teaser’ by Jason Silva
“Turning Into Gods is a new feature length documentary exploring mankind’s journey to ‘play jazz with the universe’… it is a story of our ultimate potential, the reach of our intelligence, the scope of our scientific and engineering abilities and the transcendent quality of our heroic and noble calling.
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