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Magic Hours: Tom Bissell on the Secrets of Creators and Creation
Magic Hours: Tom Bissell on the Secrets of Creators and Creation

“To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.”

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How Muybridge Changed Science Through Art: A Fascinating Vintage Short Film by the U.S. Department of Defense
How Muybridge Changed Science Through Art: A Fascinating Vintage Short Film by the U.S. Department of Defense

What galloping horses have to do with nuclear reactors and supersonic missiles.

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The Pleasure of the Inconceivable Nature of Nature: A Feynman Remix Featuring Joan Feynman
The Pleasure of the Inconceivable Nature of Nature: A Feynman Remix Featuring Joan Feynman

What the science of auroras has to do with the art of romance.

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The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva
The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva

“I’m an explorer, okay? I get curious about everything, and I want to investigate all kinds of stuff.”

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PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet
PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet

How the digital age is changing the rhetoric and regimes of creative expression.

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The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)
The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)

An animated adaptation of a WWII-era pamphlet making a scientific case against racism.

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How Long Is a Piece of String? BBC and Comedian Alan Davies Explore Quantum Mechanics
How Long Is a Piece of String? BBC and Comedian Alan Davies Explore Quantum Mechanics

Making sense of 319.44 millimeters of infinity.

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Vowels: A Cinematic Homage to the Beauty of Language and Life
Vowels: A Cinematic Homage to the Beauty of Language and Life

A, E, I, O, U.

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The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future
The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future

What tiny parachutes and a man named Wolfgang have to do with the future of all living species.

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Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness
Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness

“…only things that are creative and not destructive… hatred is wasted energy.”

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