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Maths

The Beauty of Diagrams – Vitruvian Man

March 22, 2013

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the few undisputed geniuses mankind has produced. A polymathic innovator, he was the ultimate Renaissance man – making key advancements in science, engineering, architecture and biology, as well as creating artwork which has captivated and enthralled for the centuries since his death in 1519. One of his most iconic […]

Maths

Margot Gerritsen – Mathematics Gives You Wings

March 10, 2013

Airplanes, yachts and fast cars. Margot Gerritsen has helped design them all. The Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, here describes her varied and exciting career to date, working on the design of modern airplanes, yachts, trucks and cars through her expertise in mathematical and computational modeling of energy and fluid flow processes. She […]

Cosmology

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

November 19, 2012

It is hard to overestimate the impact of A Brief History of Time. By selling more than 10 million copies it blazed a trail for the avalanche of popular science books which pack today’s shelves. Its ideas were so fantastic, so compelling, that audiences embraced its complicated scientific arguments in order to learn about exotic […]

Humanity

Richard Dawkins – Nice Guys Finish First

June 21, 2012

In this great documentary from 1984 Richard Dawkins explores game theory in relation to evolution and discovers, perhaps surprisingly, that the best strategy for long term survival is being ‘nice’. It is sometimes easy to forget that Richard Dawkins was, and is, a brilliant biologist. His excellent books have expanded debate and influenced many for […]

Maths

Fractals: The Colours of Infinity

April 29, 2012

The Mandelbrot Set is perhaps the most beautiful representation of infinity ever discovered. In this rare 1995 documentary Arthur C. Clarke takes us on a psychedelic journey into the depths of the M-Set, discovering that it has no end, it literally goes on for ever. No matter how much you zoom in on it there is […]

Interactive

Cellular Automata

March 7, 2012

Cellular Automata are an eye-opening way of conceiving how complexity, given enough time, can emerge from very simple rules. The most famous is Conway’s Game of Life which takes place on an infinite 2-dimensional grid of cells. The cells can be either ‘dead’ or ‘alive’ (black or white) and change as time progresses according to […]

Maths

The Story of Maths

February 20, 2012

Marcus Du Sautoy journeys through the history of mathematics in a 4 part series produced by the BBC in collaboation with the Open University. Du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics as well as Professor of The Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. It is in this second role that he is currently thriving […]

Humanity

The Century of the Self

February 4, 2012

The Century of the Self (2002) is an award winning British television documentary film by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have analyzed,‭ dealt with, and controlled ‬people. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and […]

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