October 2011
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WatchTranslogic Interview of Elon Musk - probably one of the best interviews with Elon I’ve seen so far. Not only does it have lots of cool footage, but it really drives home what and why SpaceX does what it does. Definitely worth the watch!
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WatchThe Feeling of Beauty - designer Richard Seymour gives a great talk on how we feel about beauty. Is an object intrinsically beautiful, or is context (knowledge about its background) required before we can see its beauty? What part of a face is it that makes it beautiful? Watch the talk for some fascinating answers about the beauty of faces, art, motorcycles, and even plastic bags.
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WatchTabula Rasa - a very pretty short film by Arnoldas Vitkus, created as a graduation project from art school. I guess we all strive to give our lives meaning by creating something which will outlast our own existence …
The basic idea was to tell a simple story about the emptiness of human mind and the slavery of our own system which makes us artificial, though sometimes by sacrificing...
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WatchMeet the New China - this is a great talk by Chinese celebrity Yang Lan on the changes taking place in Chinese society as a result of information technology access. Far from just following the same route towards economic growth as the US did before it, the Chinese people are shaping their own new society, in part by having learned from what the west did wrong. The result is nothing like the...
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