Reads tagged with “knowledge”
Elevator Groupthink: An Ingenious 1962 Psychology Experiment in Conformity
What vintage Candid Camera can teach us about the cultural role of the global Occupy movement.
Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary”
Why reality is a better storytelling tool than fiction and how film can be a conduit of democracy.
No Ordinary Genius: BBC Captures Richard Feynman’s Legacy
Explaining the scientific process with chess, or why childlike wonder is key to getting unstuck in science.
How Bananas Became a Global Commodity
What the silent film era has to do with the architecture of atmospheric control.
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986
A startup sentiment sandwich from the master chef, or why “reality distortion” helps sales but hurts design.
Mathemagician Vi Hart Explains Spirals and Fibonacci Numbers in Doodles and Vegetables
What snuggled-up slug cats have to do with the math of cosmic wonder and simple beginnings.
An Illustrated Visualization of What Happens on Earth in a Single Second
What a whale’s song has to do with the Helios II satellite and the beat of the pigmy shrew’s heart.
From Beer to Life on Mars: The Seven Wonders of Microbes
What genetic engineering has to do with the English Reformation, leftovers, and the invention of Penicillin.
The Physics Book: An Illustrated Chronology of How We Understand the Universe
Making knowledge digestible in the age of information overload, or what a cat has to do with quasicrystals.
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