Reads tagged with “animation”

Against Aloneness in the Web of Life: Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin, and the Art of Turning Personal Tragedy into a Portal to Transcendence
An antidote to isolation by way of tiny marine creatures and a broken Romantic heart.

My Mother’s Eyes: A Soulful Animated Short Film About Loss and the Unbreakable Bonds of Love
Simple, tenderly expressive line drawings unspool a complex, inexpressible universe of feeling.

Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Information Paradox: An Animated Explanation of the Greatest Unsolved Challenge to Our Understanding of Reality
Reconciling the science of the very large with the science of the very small, with a sidewise possibility that everything we experience as reality is a holographic projection.

The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated
“Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.”

Adrienne Rich’s Haunting Poem About Love and the Cosmic Perspective
“…equations letting sight pierce through time into liberations, lacerations of light and dust…”

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness.

The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film
A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love.

Nellie Bly Makes the News: An Animated Documentary About the Investigative Journalism Pioneer Who Paved the Way for Women in Media
“As the most famous woman journalist of her day, as an early woman industrialist, as a humanitarian… Bly kept the same formula for success: Determine Right. Decide Fast. Apply Energy. Act with Conviction. Fight to the Finish. Accept the Consequences. Move on.”

May 29, 1919: The Animated Story of How Eddington’s Historic Eclipse Expedition Confirmed Relativity, Catapulted Einstein into Celebrity, and United Humanity
How one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements became one of humanity’s most humane moments, uniting a divided world under the same sky after its darkest hour.

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