Discoveries XLVII

Every Tuesday I offer three (or so) contributions to the web that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (04/21/2009):

 

Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer and pleads passionately for a recovery of the mysterious ‘genius’ that makes the creative person click while it so far by far escapes all attempts to catch him-her:
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

 

Here is a fine visual art movie with the music of Keituji from Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSS9zdk6oKs


Jonathan Gray is an archeologist who discovered many absolutely stunning so far unexplained phenomena like crystallized sceletons or indigenous people living underground that beg the question: why does mainstream science so often fail to address significant open questions (which after all is what science is about)? Here is an 9 part interview with Jonathan. Listen to part one and find the other parts accordingly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-T6Ud110c&feature=related

 

 

 

Leave a Reply


To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the answer to the math equation shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the equation.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam equation