18/11/2013
Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'" (1977)
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"Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all rec...
Casting Kurtz
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Note: essential that you, individually, move through and beyond these direct and indirect 'castings' of Mr. Kurtz – particularly Ki...
06/05/2013
Non-Euclidean Type
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I just watched that BBC 2 documentary on Non-Euclidean geometry posted earlier, it's great. I could feel my mind start bending a little...
03/05/2013
Clapping music
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In this piece, Reich uses the most fundamental of human attributions, beside the voice, to "create a piece of music that needed no i...
The famous couple
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“It was very hard finding this photograph. We needed to navigate the thin channel between full bodily disclosure and NASA’s fear of t...
Pioneer plaques
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Designed by Carl Sagan & Frank Drake; artwork by Linda Salzman Sagan. “The Pione...
02/05/2013
Resources from Lecture 3: Electricity
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Educational films explaining the physical principles behind sound waves, their generation and manipulation: The Nature of Sound (1948) ...
01/05/2013
Using light to talk about light
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Bill Culbert - An Explanation of Light (1984) Ask yourself: what does this...
The face on mars
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The original image taken by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976. Humans have always projected their own hopes and fears onto interst...
30/04/2013
Making sand swim
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Klaus Weber Sand Fountain (2012) Klaus Weber's piece Sand Fountain is both transformative and oppositional – encouraging a r...
29/04/2013
Sun, Planet, Moon
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The PhET project at the University of Colorado have a huge range of interactive simulations which help to visu...
Science fiction: Asking questions to the future
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Latest since the industrial revolution, the cultural significance of science has become impossible to miss. It has transformed our live...
Signs of the Fourth Dimension
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In this lecture author and professor at the University of Texas, Dr. Linda Dalrymple Henderson , discusses the subject of her book &...
26/04/2013
Whipple, Wave Machine
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A late C19th model to demonstrate how waves move; made by the Elliott Brothers, to a design by Baden Powell ((1796-1860) – the father of...
20/04/2013
Dimensional Space
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Duccio di Buoninsegna, (c1308-11) Christ's entry into Jerusalem, panel from the Maesta, Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana del Duom...
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