"Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all rec...

Note: essential that you, individually, move through and beyond these direct and indirect 'castings' of Mr. Kurtz – particularly Ki...

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...

In this piece, Reich uses the most fundamental of human attributions, beside the voice, to  "create a piece of music that needed no i...

“It was very hard finding this photograph. We needed to navigate the thin channel between full bodily disclosure and NASA’s fear of t...

Designed by Carl Sagan & Frank Drake; artwork by Linda Salzman Sagan. “The Pione...

Educational films explaining the physical principles behind sound waves, their generation and manipulation: The Nature of Sound (1948) ...

Bill Culbert -  An Explanation of Light  (1984) Ask yourself: what does this...

The original image taken by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976. Humans have always projected their own hopes and fears onto interst...

Klaus Weber Sand Fountain (2012) Klaus Weber's piece Sand Fountain is both transformative and oppositional – encouraging a r...

The PhET project at the University of Colorado have a huge range of interactive simulations which help to visu...

Latest since the industrial revolution, the cultural significance of science has become impossible to miss. It has transformed our live...

In this lecture author and professor at the University of Texas, Dr. Linda Dalrymple Henderson , discusses the subject of her book ...

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...

 Duccio di Buoninsegna, (c1308-11) Christ's entry into Jerusalem, panel from the Maesta, Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana del Duom...