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David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe · LRB 2 December 2021
4886 words Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same month, around 800,000 people died from the … Continue reading
BÄR
“Bär” is a personal story about my grandfathers past in World War 2. The film is my graduation project from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It was finished in … Continue reading
The Visit 探望
A young girl visits her father in prison. The glass in-between would never separate them anyways. A Finding Pictures film finding.pictures @findingpictures —- Written and Directed by Morrie Tan Voiced by Judee Tan and Huang Jia Qiang Produced by Jerrold … Continue reading
Frank – Animated Short Film
Frankenstein’s monster has a chance encounter with his estranged father and is convinced by his wife to try to reconnect. My 2018 USC undergrad animated thesis film. Starring: Rob Paulsen as Frank Tuesday Grant as Mary Cameron Gavinski as Professor … Continue reading
Benjamin Bratton on why he hates Ted talks
Benjamin Bratton is a sociologist, design theorist and author. He perhaps is most known for his TED talk, ‘What’s wrong with TED Talks?’ (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) His most recent book, ‘The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic’ world discusses … Continue reading
New Perspectives – What’s Wrong with TED Talks? Benjamin Bratton at TEDxSanDiego 2013 – Re:Think
Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD and Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2, asks: Why don’t the bright futures promised in TED talks come true? Professor Bratton attacks the intellectual viability of TED, … Continue reading
Are Viruses Alive? – with Carl Zimmer
Are viruses alive or are they lifeless packages of protein and nucleic acid? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/-LUQTjdHYNo Carl’s book “Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive” is available now – https://geni.us/zimmer Countless scientists around the world … Continue reading
How Our Brains Learn Consciousness
[…] Neuroscience is abound with debates over the nature of consciousness. Which makes sense, because it’s a very abstract idea. We know we are conscious, but theories of why, how and what brain activity causes it are still simply that: … Continue reading
