Five things I mentioned while in Québec and further materials
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“A Communications Primer”, created in 1953, focuses on the aspects of “communication”, including the notions of transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion, misunderstanding, and much more
Anna Daly at Senses of Cinema describes it as follows: “Schematic diagrams and simple associations serve to highlight the message: clear communication betters humanity. The film is thus an accomplished work of design as well as being a beautifully composed documentary that brings an artist’s feel for colour and composition to the moving image, ensuring visual delight despite theoretical archaism.”
“Through a descriptive clarity aided by Charles’ own voice-over narration, A Communications Primer and View from the People Wall serve to enrich our experience of high modernism in film. … The films themselves, then, raise some interesting issues concerning the modernist formulation of aesthetic beauty as an achievement of the resolution between form, function and content; for we are provided with a visually rich experience that leads us to question the very premises upon which that experience is based.”
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Ira Glass of This American Life on Storytelling and Creativity
(in four parts on youtube)
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Humans were not prehistorically hunters but rather gatherers (i.e non carniverous)
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Evolutionary Software Design and Scientific Process
http://bit.ly/hdy8b (video explanation)
Hod Lipson’s talks about evolutionary self-aware robotics
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Biomimicry, learning from evolution
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
• The paradigm shift is from learning about nature to learning from nature.
• ‘Nature’ considers unacceptable the kind of waste/inefficiencies that are modus operandi in our man-made manufacturing.
• In order to be sustainable, we must learn from ‘nature’ (e.g ecosystems and organisms) which has perfected its mechanisms through evolution.
One more thing,
and why we study marine life
