With Donald Trump’s recent announcement of ‘Space Force’, ‘Tales From the Bottle’ takes a look at one of the United States’ earliest military involvements in the final frontier. “Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States […]
What is the purpose of art, and what does Buddhism have to do with it? Let’s dive into Schopenhauer and find out! Aesthetics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoAL-KSZ32d-ywRVwELJOl61bKwjzw6h Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thephilosophytube Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophyTube?ref=hl Twitter: @PhilosophyTube Email: ollysphilosophychannel@gmail.com Google+: google.com/+thephilosophytube Suggested Reading: The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy entry on Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics/#AesExp Arthur […]
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Eric Kandel: Creativity, Your Brain, and the Aha! Moment Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Dr. Eric Kandel describes the “aha phenomenon” and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively. ———————————————————————————- ERIC KANDEL: Dr. Eric […]
Edward Frenkel: Let’s Stop Hating Math Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Mathematician Edward Frenkel knows why so many people hate mathematics. It’s simple really: the way math is taught is so draconian and ineffective that students can’t help […]
To get started for free, visit https://brilliant.org/aperture the first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/how-art-alters-our-reality Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Sideways Effect: a concept that encompasses the idea that film and other narrative mediums can elicit such a visceral audience response that it has […]
Look closer — you’ll see a story about history. Find me elsewhere: Twitter: https://twitter.com/philedwardsinc Instagram: https://instagram.com/philedwardsinc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philedwardsinc For this piece about the cracks in paintings, I mainly parroted the widely-cited and influential work of Spike Bucklow. Check out these key papers: The description of craquelure patterns: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1506709?seq=1 The description and […]
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All this little monkey was missing was corduroy britches. “Jack was the pet and assistant of double leg amputee signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway service. James “Jumper” Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both […]
Sign up to Morning Brew for free today https://morningbrewdaily.com/aperture Sponsored by Morning Brew Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/what-is-art Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Different cultures and subcultures have vastly different and often contradicting ideas of what constitutes good or meaningful art. Even within our cosmopolitan society today, there clearly exists different ideologies as to […]
