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When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality
When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality

Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty.

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Magnificent Maps: Cartography as Power, Propaganda, and Art
Magnificent Maps: Cartography as Power, Propaganda, and Art

What the feats of Marco Polo have to do with medieval political propaganda and the history of tea.

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The Age of Insight: How the Cross-Pollination of Art and Science in Early 20th-Century Vienna Shaped Modern Culture
The Age of Insight: How the Cross-Pollination of Art and Science in Early 20th-Century Vienna Shaped Modern Culture

What Freud has to do with Klimt and the neuroscience of a Beethoven symphony.

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What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions
What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

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Ancient Romans’ Fanciful and Entertaining Pre-Scientific Beliefs about Animal Behavior
Ancient Romans’ Fanciful and Entertaining Pre-Scientific Beliefs about Animal Behavior

What the greed of the octopus has to do with the ram’s preferred bedside and the hyena’s gender-bending.

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Dreamers and Storytellers: E. O. Wilson on Art and Reconciling Science and the Humanities
Dreamers and Storytellers: E. O. Wilson on Art and Reconciling Science and the Humanities

“In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.”

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From Jell-O to Ballet, 7 Ordinary Things is Extraordinary Slow-Motion
From Jell-O to Ballet, 7 Ordinary Things is Extraordinary Slow-Motion

What German ballet has to do with tea parties, eagleowls, and the hidden beauty of pollination.

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500,000 Strangers’ Secrets: PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at TED
500,000 Strangers’ Secrets: PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at TED

Cracking open the shell of the human condition.

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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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