The inspiration for Carl Sagans 1980 series, Cosmos, Jacob Bronowskis 1973 series, The Ascent of Man. Over the course of thirteen episodes, Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. “Jacob Bronowski was one of a small group of men and women in any […]

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Non-linear storytelling taken to a new level, HBO’s Imagine website features film and audio clips combined with press clippings in a 3D space which you can navigate at your will. It also includes some “cube scenes” which play from multiple angles at once, revealing hidden events which require you to view the scene from all […]

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090927.html At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such […]

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Tomorrow, Now, Forever displays an image of the sun rising, wherever the sun is rising, along with geographic and temporal coordinates indicating the viewer’s displacement from the sunrise. Tomorrow, Now, Forever captures live webcam images of the horizon from successive locations, in sync with the earth’s rotation so that, at any time of the day […]

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