April 30, 2014
What is a Photocopier?

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.

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April 29, 2014
The MBAs of Persuasion

In the latest RSA Short, bestselling author Dan Pink shows us how to be MBAs in our every waking moment. Whether we're employees pitching to our bosses, parents and teachers cajoling kids, or politicians presenting new policies, we can all dehumanize the way we persuade others.

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April 28, 2104
How to See Without Glasses

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April 25, 2014
Asteroid Impact

Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons – all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts. These findings were recently released from the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates the network.

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April 24, 2014
TimTom

Romain Segaud and Christel Pougeoise's CG short film TimTom pays tribute To stop-motion animation. TimTom was an official selection at Sundance and won a jury award at Siggraph and the grand prizes at Imagina and Ars Electronica, and it's easy to see why it has garnered such accolades. It uses the visuals associated with not just stop-motion animation, but also the media of film and sound to tell its story about two animated figures and the animator's hand that serves as their antagonist.

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A pril 23, 2014
Silent Storms

Silent Storms is Ole C. Salomonsen's fourth consecutive aurora/astro film. In a way Silent Storms shows how the night skies can be during the three seasons that there is darkness in northern arctic Scandinavia; autumn, winter and spring. It was filmed in Norway, Finland and Sweden, primarily around the Tromsø area, Norway.

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April 22, 2014
Happy Earth Day

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April 21, 2014
Paperfolding Airplane Innovation

Neopost is a manufacturer of postage meter and mailroom equipment. On the occasion of the Drupa, the largest printing equipment exhibition in the world, Neopost presented its new industrial paper airplane folder.

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April 18, 2014
Painted: An Adventure in Stop Motion Body Art

Painted is an experiment in stop motion face & body painting by Elvis Schmoulianoff: vegan make up artist Elvis Schmoulianoff that plays with the idea of giving paint its own life and personality on a living canvas.

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April 17, 2014
Enra — "Pleiades"

A synchronized combination of dance and projected light by Japanese performance troupe Enra, directed by Nobuyuki Hanabusa, performed and choreographed by Saya Watatani and Maki Yokoyama.

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April 16, 2014
The Futility of Existence

The Russians call it "The Futility of Existence. I call it "Age Learns from Youth."

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April 15, 2015
The Science of Caffeine

It's not just in coffee anymore. From drinks to jerky to gum, caffeine is everywhere. In our latest video, we take a look at the science behind the world's most popular drug, including why that little molecule keeps you awake and reveal just how much caffeine is too much.

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April 14, 2014
GEOS-5: Aerosols

Through numerical experiments that simulate the dynamical and physical processes governing weather and climate variability of Earth's atmosphere, models create a dynamic portrait of our planet. This 10-kilometer global mesoscale simulation (Nature Run) using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) explores the evolution of surface temperatures as the sun heats the Earth and fuels cloud formation in the tropics and along baroclinic zones; the presence of water vapor and precipitation within these global weather patterns; the dispersion of global aerosols from dust, biomass burning, fossil fuel emissions, and volcanoes; and the winds that transport these aerosols from the surface to upper-levels.

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April 11, 2014
Sweating to the Surreal

Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" (often referred to as Doggy Fitness or Poodle Fitness) is a short film by renowned art director and commercial film director Nagi Noda who has created spots for Nike and Coca Cola and starring Takahashi Mariko, a Japanese 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships gymnast and jazz musician.. Exercising with her in the video are six actors dressed in dog costumes with actual live dogs' heads superimposed over their real heads. The film was created for Panasonic's Ten Short Movies -- Capture the Motion series for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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April 10, 2014
What Does Sound Look Like?

You can actually see sound waves as they travel through the air thanks to a clever photographic trick.

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April 9, 2014
Rise of the Patent Troll

Tell policymakers that you care about protecting American innovation from poor patents and bad actors. The House has already passed an important bill, and the White House is ready to sign it. Tell the Senate to pass much-needed patent reform now.

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April 8, 2014
Neil Armstrong on Being a Nerd

An Engineering Manifesto by the first man on the moon. "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be." From "The Engineering Century", delivered at the National Press Club on February 22, 2000. Audio used with kind permission from the NPC and C-SPAN.

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April 7, 2014
A Tour of the British Isles in Accents

A dialect coach, Andrew Jack, gives a tour of the accents of the British Isles.

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April 4, 2014
English Is Crazy
In what other language do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell?

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April 3, 2014
Subject, Theory, Practice

This is a montage film that contains found footage, it is entirely non-commercial, and is based on a lecture delivered by Madam Studio in May of 2012 at Gent Sint-Lucas Hogeschool Voor Wetenschap & Kunst.

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April 2, 2014
First Lady of Bass

As a session musician, Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She played guitar on Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and is credited with the bass tracks on several Simon & Garfunkel hits and many film scores by Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin. One of the most popular albums Carol contributed to was the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.

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April, 1 2014
Hashima

Erwin Schulz visited the Island of Hishima in 2013 with architectural photographer Andrew Meredith. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. Today, it is increasingly gaining international attention not only for its modern regional heritage, but also for the undisturbed housing complex remnants representative of the period from the Taisho period to the Showa period.

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