Video Pick: The Overview Effect
Some astronauts and cosmonauts have reported a cognitive shift in awareness during spaceflight–often while viewing the Earth from orbit or from the lunar surface. It has come to be known as The Overview Effect.
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Video Pick of the Week: Death by Black Hole
Ever wonder what it might be like to fall into a black hole?
Video Pick of the Week: Steal Like an Artist
We can pick our teachers and we can pick our friends and we can pick the books we read and the music we listen to and the movies we see, et cetera. You are a mash-up of what you let into your life.
Video Pick of the Week: The Jiggly Things
Symphony of Science presents “The Quantum World” an Auto-Tune video investigating the nature of atoms and subatomic particles.
Video Pick of the Week: Ira Glass on Storytelling
In 2007, Ira Glass of This American Life, gave a presentation at the GEL Conference. If you’re looking for insights from a master storyteller, check it out.
Video Pick of the Week: End of an Era
Winning a foothold on other worlds whispers in our ears that we’re more than Picts or Serbs or Tongans: We’re humans. ~Carl Sagan, A Pale Blue Dot.
Video Pick of the Week: Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut offers a chalkboard lecture: “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
Video Pick of the Week: VLT and the Milky Way
There are an estimated 100-300 billion stars in the Milky Way. Of these, in ideal conditions at any given time or place on Earth, only 2,500 are visible to the unaided eye.
Video Pick of the Week:
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography – Language
Today, we feature a Kinetic Typography video where Stephen Fry discusses anglophones, pedants, and language. Enjoy a delectable dance of diction.
