Video
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Superman Is a Bad Translation
For Slate, Shon Arieh-Lerer and Daniel Hubbard provide a video rundown of pop culture’s use of Nietzsche, starting with contemporaneous forces made his philosophy be mangled by Nazi power and ending with True Detective and Kanye.
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Meditating on Technology with Margaret Atwood
In a whimsical animated video by The Future of StoryTelling, the legendary Margaret Atwood explores the intersection of technology and storytelling. “I’ve always been interested in new things… I walk around in a state of wonder everyday. Everything is exciting,”…
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A Closer Look
That perfect movie moment is really the sum of countless cinematic cues coming together to make us think and feel. Tony Zhou’s video series “Every Frame a Painting” examines how (and when) these techniques of filmmaking work. We’ve always been…
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Sometimes Judge A Book By Its Cover
Cover designer Peter Mendelsund has released two new books about cover design. Cover collects many of the images Mendelsund has designed over his career and What We See When We Read explores the relationship between cover art and the books…
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Too Many Words is Too Many Words
Watch this gorgeous video about the writing life of modern literary giant Haruki Murakami. Discover how he manages to seep into the minds of so many of his readers, creating a personal connection with his vast readership, video creator Ilana…
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The Girl with the Hair in Her Mouth
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness: those moments when another human being was there in front of me, suffering, and I responded sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly,” George Saunders said in his 2013 commencement address at Syracuse.…
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Ballad of a WiFi Hero
Yesterday, Vulture premiered “In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed As a Conquering Hero,” an animated short based on Mike Lacher’s popular McSweeney’s humor piece of the same name and which “follows the harrowing tale of a bold warrior…
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Ray Bradbury on love, life, and writing
The folks over at Brainpickings have unearthed a video from 1974 from a show called Day at Night where guest Ray Bradbury talked about writing, love, and life. “I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative…
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The Truth About Dishonesty
Brain Pickings has an animate video to highlight Dan Ariely’s new book, The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty. Ariely writes in the book what causes our moral compass to go awry: “We all have a tendency to think of people as…
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Zombies! Organize!!
I imagine licking a robot’s clitoris is like sticking your tongue on a 9-volt battery.
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Anthony Atala on Growing New Organs
From Ted.com, Anthony Atala demonstrates the medical technology that grows new organs from a body’s own cells, thus eliminating the problem of rejection.