TECHNOLOGIES
Tiniest Movie Ever — Made by Animating Single Atoms
How can you see this movie? Only when you magnify it 100 million times. Scientists at IBM have succeeded at manipulating single atoms and making a stop-motion movie at the atomic level. Take a look: How did they do it? Here's the behind-the-scenes scoop: More...Magnify the Universe
Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe by Number Sleuth.
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Courtesy of our friends at from Number Sleuth, this interactive infographic accurately illustrates the scale of over 100 items within the observable universe ranging from galaxies to insects, nebulae and stars to molecules and atoms. Numerous hot p More...
To the Moon, Mona!
To test new communication technologies, NASA sent an image of the Mona Lisa to the moon and back. More...New Year’s Resolutions for Media Industries
by Adam Leipzig
We will work at the margins and the edges. Change never starts in the center, nor does it come from established players. Change starts at the outside and works inward. Then it becomes established and needs to change again.
We will stop thinking in terms of devices. A screen is a screen is a screen. We will start thinking in terms of transactio More...
Oh, Siri
Copyright © 2012 by Carol Green. All rights reserved.
Carol Green, the creator of Cultural Weekly's original comic series, Life After Birth, is a coach, writer, illustrator, veteran film publicist and wry observer living in Los Angeles.
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100,000 Stars
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. You can watch the video below, then pull up Google Chrome and go to http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars to take the tour yourself. More...Unfocused in America
by Sylvie Drake
Recently, my colleagues and I were asked to offer suggestions for things we would like to see happen in the work place. A routine question that comes up now and then, yes? But one of the top four answers that came back was not-so-routine: One hour of uninterrupted work time.
Really? This zeroes in on something we’re all increasingly afflicted b More...
Passing as Persuasion
by Marcia Alesan Dawkins
This article is excerpted from Clearly Invisible, a new book about passing and cultural identify in America today.
It was one o’clock in the morning when I made a startling discovery. Insomnia led me to my iPad in search of new applications to pass the time. While scrolling through the iTunes App Store I came across a game called Guess My Race More...
CreatorUp! Sponsors Film Fest — Enter Now
CreatorUp!, a new start-up devoted top teaching you how to create your next project, is sponsoring the Unofficial Google+ Film Festival -- now accepting short film submissions between 15 seconds and 25 minutes in length.
Films selected by the festival will be judged by high profile industry talent, and will be seen by a potential audience of tho More...
