“Why Man Creates” is an animated documentary film created by Saul Bass, the iconic graphic designer, and commissioned by Kaiser Aluminum. It won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1968, and remains a timeless classic. In 2002, “Why Man Creates” was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of [...]
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When it comes to conveying information, and influencing others, Professor Hans Rosling says data is not enough; you have to show the information in a way people understand and enjoy. You need a story and visuals. Rosling provides a great example, in his lecture on ’The Joy of Stats.’ He tells the story of the world in [...]
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A popular physics prof agreed to pit his traditional physics lectures against the newfangled teaching techniques promoted by Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman and his disciples. The results were dramatic in a “learning competition” involving more than 500 first-year engineering students at the University of B.C The students learned more than twice as much in the new “interactive” [...]
A special report in The Atlantic: Great art begins with an idea. Sometimes a vague or even bad one. How does that spark of creativity find its way to the canvas, the page, the dinner plate, or the movie screen? How is inspiration refined into the forms that delight or provoke us? The report features [...]

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