Browsing: Education

The Sun is one busy celestial body. In addition to giving us light, holding the solar system together, and providing the energy for almost every living thing on Earth, it’s also a grapefruit in a grass field in Austin, Texas, and a 50-foot yellow archway in northern Maine. Now, obviously this huge mass of incandescent gas […]

A sketchnote manifesto for keeping the fire in kids’ eyes burning.

Bridging education and entertainment through experimental animation, or what Big Bird has to do with the dawn of computing.

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

New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton’s hilarious six-panel vignettes about famous literary and historical figures and events.

A brief history of jazz piano techniques from one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time.

Fascinating 2005 BBC documentary exploring the birth of the individual in modern society.

Remarkable, deeply inspirational graduation addresses by Steve Jobs, J. K. Rowling, Jeff Bezos, Meryl Streep and Robert Krulwich.

In a rare 1988 interview, iconic sci-fi author Isaac Asimov shares cunning insights on the role of creativity in education and predicts the future of technology with astounding accuracy.

Composer Howard Goodall and the BBC take us on a journey into music’s underbelly, examining the four basic elements that make it work: Melody, rhythm, harmony and bass.