Category: Future

The Silent Child

The Silent Child | Oscar® Winning Short Film Please turn on captions, as they are essential for the sign-language used throughout this film. A deaf 6-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker gives her the gift of communication. Ddeaflinks Staffordshire have been providing a vital service for…
The Future from the Past – Worlds Fair 1939

From the perspective of the 21st century, it’s hard to imagine what a marvel the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair would have been to its visitors. Still living in the heavy shadow of the stock market crash of 1929, the many people who flocked to the big exhibition found not only bounteous luxuries such as…
The Beauty

What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.CrewDirector: Pascal SchelbliVFX Supervisor: Marc AngeleProducers: Aleksandra Todorovic, Tina VestUnderwater Cinematography:…
Bjӧrk – Mutual Core

In \”Mutual Core,\” recorded by Björk for her seventh album Biophilia, the earth\’s geology is a metaphor for human relationships. Eruptions and earthquakes, the building of continents, the formation of mountain ranges and oceanic trenches: all are powerful signs of the earth\’s structure and mechanics. Represented musically by the violent interruption of block rocking…
Sanctuary of Simplicity

Architect George Suyama wonders if his early years in a Japanese American internment camp led to his love for simplicity. “My theory is that we had nothing there so I became obsessed with little things. I was at a camp in Idaho called Minidoka and it was a tarpaper barracks. They were long shed buildings,…
The Price of ‘Certainty’

When ignorance trumps reason – gullibility will follow … It’s alarming to see how polarized politics have become in the United States. The wider the gulf grows, the more people seem to be certain that the other side is wrong. Certainty can be a dangerous thing. There’s more to what you believe than you think.…
What Kids Eat

What Kids Eat Around the World In the face of rising global obesity, photographer Gregg Segal traveled around the world to ask kids what they eat in one week and then photographed them alongside the food.Photographs and text by Gregg SegalWith thanks to Time Inc. – http://time.com/what-kids-eat-around-the-world-in-one-week/In an 8×8 aluminum hut on a construction site…
A Time Traveller’s Log

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Millennials Observed

Making Sense: Were you born in the last 30 years or so – Listen up! Excerpt of Simon Sinek from an episode of Inside Quest. 15 minutes worth watching and 27 million plus views on Twitter, and over 7 million on YouTube.http://www.insidequest.com/ This clip published on YouTube Oct 29, 2016 Millennials From Wikipedia, the free…
The Big Global Warning

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Internet Tips from Teens to Technophobes

More helpful advice at: http://joshshipp.com/get-started Young people today live a huge portion of their lives online. According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, 92 percent of teens report going online daily—including 24 percent who say they go online “almost constantly.” Why so much online activity? The accessibility of smartphones, of course. Fully 91…
Cold Comfort

How An Igloo Keeps You Warm Published on Jan 9, 2017 Building a perfect igloo takes cool science! And more Info below… If you ever find yourself stranded in the snowy Arctic (or bored in Minecraft), you’re gonna need to know how to build an igloo. But how can building a house made of ice…