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The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection
The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection

A hemispheric history of the making of the Western world, or why abstraction is necessary for empathy.

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Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles
Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles

How to punch a whale, or what Dracula has to do with Faulkner and Macbeth.

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Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each
Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

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Whale Fall: A Lyrical Paper-Cutout Animation about the Cycle of Life in the Microcosm of a Whale
Whale Fall: A Lyrical Paper-Cutout Animation about the Cycle of Life in the Microcosm of a Whale

75 years of existential generosity, or what the ocean floor can teach us about existence, ego and impermanence.

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A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples
A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples

From Morocco to Mongolia, or what we can learn about climate change from Inuit whale hunters.

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A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order
A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order

Why we’re drawn to things organized neatly, or what sea urchins have to do with vintage erasers.

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A Sky Full of Kindness: Beautiful and Profound Cut-Paper Meditations on Life by Artist Rob Ryan
A Sky Full of Kindness: Beautiful and Profound Cut-Paper Meditations on Life by Artist Rob Ryan

Lessons on love from two illustrated birds, or why we never really grow up.

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Sound Is…
Sound Is…

Tssss chktchktchkt dubdubdub oeyyy.

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7 Must-Read Books on Time
7 Must-Read Books on Time

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.

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BBC’s Volatile History of Chemistry
BBC’s Volatile History of Chemistry

How the elements came to be, or what alchemy and urine have to do with the God particle.

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