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Driven: Inspire: A Visit With Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Slideshow)

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04:52

Some moments are so perfectly arresting that they can change the course of our lives. Here, widely influential psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi meditates on those inciting moments of inspiration, and how we might find them anywhere.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: September 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Geometry Playground: Passionately Curious (Clip)

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00:04:22

For John Edmark, geometry is a foundation for creating beauty. Here he explains his interest in unexpected natural phenemona, and how visitors to his kaleidoscopic piece, The Geometron, can turn simple shapes into surprisingly intricate patterns of reflection.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: geometry, geometron, reflection, kaleidoscope, art, john edmark

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Geometry Playground

Geometry Playground: Beauty Is A Way In (Clip)

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00:04:34

Tauba Auerbach talks about randomness, the unity of art and science, and the way her Geometry Playground piece uses the beauty of geometry to draw visitors into a zone of comfort with math and their own artistic capabilities.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: randomness, tauba auerbach, art, science, geometry, spirograph

After Dark: Cosmological Constructs: Artist Dan Goods (Clip)

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01:23

In this short interview with Dan Goods, designer, artist, and visual strategist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goods discusses his art piece, "Jupiter Fog Pool." The piece, inspired by the Juno mission to Jupiter, was part of "Cosmological Constructs," our After Dark event of September 2010.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: dan goods, jet propulsion lab, jpl, fog, fog pool, nasa, juno, jupiter, after dark, space

Speaking of Music Rewind: Meredith Monk Part 1 (Podcast)

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01:07:18

Meredith Monk has been on the vanguard of interdisciplinary performance for 45 years. In this conversation from 1984, she discusses her works of that era, reflects on her process and aspirations for her work, takes questions, and performs excerpts from Education of the Girlchild.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: August 20, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: meredith monk, opera, speaking of music

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Speaking of Music Rewind: Meredith Monk Part 2 (Podcast)

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00:53:35

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Driven: Story of a Plate (Slideshow)

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04:16

Chef Mourad Lahlou of Aziza restaurant is known for elegance and sophistication in his modern Moroccan dishes but often finds inspiration in simple things and unlikely places. In this journey behind the kitchen door, we shadow his entire process as he follows his heart from farm to table. The process is a solid team effort, from Lahlou's special relationships with the people who grow the food to the collaborative kitchen environment that he cultivates. We witness Chef Lahlou blend art and science, and precision and innovation, in his quest to create a plate that is elegant, surprising, and true to its ingredients.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: August 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: chef, aziza, mourad lahlou, cooking

Driven: Meet the Stars (Slideshow)

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00:04:40

Astronomer Dr. Isabel Hawkins's journey to the stars began with two chance moments of enchantment with celestial bodies in her native Argentina. Inspired by the mystery of the sky, she went on to study physics and astronomy in California and then to work for 20 years as a research astronomer at UC Berkeley. Now retired from research and devoted to inciting a love of the stars and sky in young people, Dr. Hawkins reflects on her own initial moments of inspiration, on sharing her love of stars with others, and on how astronomy can, and should, remind us of our connection to one another, under a canopy of mystery.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: July 30, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: astronomy, eclipse, stars, sun, solar

Driven: My New Wilderness (Slideshow)

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00:05:08

The Wave Organ is a wave-activated sound sculpture located at the end of a jetty in the San Francisco Bay. It was created by artist Peter Richards and master stonemason George Gonzalez in 1986.

The installation is an unlikely sight: a collection of curbstones and cemetery stones that appear in the Bay like an ancient ruin or a strange dream. In this unusual place of discovery and contemplation, the musical phenomenon is only part of the point.

In this audio slideshow, Peter Richards, now a senior artist at the Exploratorium, shares his inspiration for creating this piece and explores its function as a theater in which many different kinds of human experiences unfold.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: July 16, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: wave organ, peter richards, bay, tides

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Visit The Wave Organ

NOAA's Okeanos Explorer: Introduction to the Okeanos Explorer (Clip)

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00:02:20

NOAA Chief Scientist Steve Hammond and Okeanos Commander Joe Pica introduce us to the capabilities of the new NOAA research vessel, the Okeanos Explorer, as it sets out on its maiden voyage to Indonesia. ROV footage and maps courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

Project: Voyages of Discovery: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer | Browse All

Date: June 15, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Keywords: noaa, mapping, rov, expedition, exploration, ocean, voyage


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