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Video Portraits of Resilience from Sri Lanka
Video Portraits of Resilience from Sri Lanka

Three beautiful short films about ingenuity in the face of scarcity and hardship.

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Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception
Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception

Why you should wear red on your next date, or what an African tribe can teach us about the color of water.

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Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA
Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA

The architecture of addiction, or why mixed metaphors might be more harmful than marijuana.

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Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers
Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers

What microwave oscillators have to do with ray guns and the fundamentals of creativity.

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Life in the Abyss: Behind the Scenes of the Census of Marine Life
Life in the Abyss: Behind the Scenes of the Census of Marine Life

How to name a new species after your exwife, or what bioluminescent fish have to do with world peace.

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Mod Odyssey: How The Beatles Revolutionized Animation in 1968
Mod Odyssey: How The Beatles Revolutionized Animation in 1968

From Homer to John Lennon, or what the “psychedelic 60s” can teach us about creativity in animation.

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The Homosexuals: A CBS “Documentary” from 1967
The Homosexuals: A CBS “Documentary” from 1967

A vintage signpost for how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go.

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Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary
Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary

Visibility, invisibility, and what the spirit of letters has to do with the meaning of text.

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Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight

What Bob Dylan has to do with civic pride and Ancient Rome’s views on the purpose of art.

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Project Earth: A Resource-Based Economy Explained
Project Earth: A Resource-Based Economy Explained

What collaborative consumption has to do with life after Earth and the ego of science.

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