Dear Visitors,
Lately I don't find enough time to post on this blog. But I still find a lot of interesting stuff on the internet and I keep on sharing it. So I invite you to go to google+ and visit me there:
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Céline
For now I recommend : Americans Who Tell the Truth
A collection of portraits & quotes. Paintings by Robert Shetterly

“I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.”
Arthur Miller

documentary: The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski

Embedding is disabled on this series but you can watch the whole thing over here:
playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DC9231D07EA8782

"The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of personal view documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski’s highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long unscripted monologues and its extensive location shoots. The title alludes to The Descent of Man, the second book on evolution by Charles Darwin. Over the series’ thirteen episodes, Bronowski traveled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. Series outline: Lower than the Angels – Evolution of man from proto-ape to 400,000 years ago. The Harvest of the Seasons – Early human migration, agriculture and the first settlements, war. The Grain in the Stone – Tools, development of architecture and sculpture. The Hidden Structure – Fire, metals and alchemy. Music of the Spheres – The language of numbers. The Starry Messenger – Galileo’s universe. The Majestic Clockwork – Explores Newton and Einstein’s laws. The Drive for Power – The Industrial Revolution. The Ladder of Creation – Darwin and Wallace’s ideas on the origin of species. World within World – The story of the periodic table. Knowledge or Certainty – Physics and the clash of absolute knowledge, the oppressive state, and its misgivings realizing the result of its terrible outcome. Generation upon Generation – Life, genetics, and the cloning of identical forms. The Long Childhood – Bronowski’s treatise on the commitment of man."
via topdocumentaryfilms and discontentedgeneralist

 I started watching this yesterday, and it is amazing, mind boggling stuff everybody should know!
(And believe me it's entertaining too.) Happy weekend everybody.

 "Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book."wiki


The statement that closes the series:

documentary: Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics - “Dangerous Knowledge”

 This is about uncertainty, ideas and big changes. I enjoyed this documentary very much. Interesting and mind expanding even for a non mathematician like me.

 "Dangerous Knowledge (2007), The film looks at four mathematicians-Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing-whose genius has profoundly affected the way we understand mathematics and science, but who all died in tragic circumstances. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and struggled greatly to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann struggled to prove the existence of atoms; his work may have contributed to his eventual suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death. Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker and father of computer science, committed suicide after being chemically castrated by the British authorities for his homosexuality. The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers pursuing the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Gregory Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York, and Roger Penrose."
more about David Malone on wiki

Georg Cantor wiki

Richard Feynman - Ways of Thinking

"I suspect what goes on in every man's head might be very very different."
This is great!
It's about imagination, learning, how our brains work and very important: communication.

"Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the super fluidity of super cooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the Parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly known scientists in the world."