Brave Wilderness
Mole Cricket Experiment!
In this segment of On Location, Coyote finds an elusive Mole Cricket! Have you ever wondered what insects are making all that loud screeching at night? Well to find out usually all you need to do is grab a simple flashlight and follow...
The Art Assignment
Five Favorite Works of Art with Mike Rugnetta | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week Mike Rugnetta joins us to share five of his favorite works of art. Thanks, Mike!
Curated Video
Fraction Division Using Reciprocals and Multiplication
In this video, students learn how to solve fraction division problems by using reciprocals and the inverse operation of multiplication. The teacher explains the concept of reciprocals and demonstrates how to correctly invert the divisor...
Next Animation Studio
Flight attendants linked to higher rates of cancer
A study of around 5,300 U.S. flight attendants has found the profession holds higher cancer rates.
The Art Assignment
14. Find Your Band - Bang on A Can | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR...
Smarthistory
Inventing America, Colt's Experimental Pocket Pistol
Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of...
Curated Video
Experimental Stanford artist explores science, art and improvisation
Pamela Davis Kivelson, experimental artist and lecturer in Stanford’s Design Program, has long been interested in the intersection of science, music, art and improvisation. Her latest foray into the busy intersection is a participatory...
Creators
Canine Video Art , Human/Puppet Theater, and Gritty Johannesburg | Culture Beat Episode 6
First up, we visit LA-based canine groomer Jess Rona, who's turned her work into a social media video art sensation. Then, we see how theater group Phantom Limb combines human and puppet actors to surreal effect for their newest play,...
Creators
Brain-Melting Machines, 3D Animation, and Underwater Art | Culture Beat Episode 1
Culture Beat is our bi-weekly roundup of the most exciting, outlandish, and mind-expanding cultural happenings and projects that we can get our hands on. In this first episode, we visit "Detroitus" sculptor Ryan Doyle at his LA show...
Sotheby's
From Pistoletto to Paolini: 50 Years of Radical Italian Art
An experimental look at Arte Povera, the radical Italian art movement that explored unconventional materials and methods. Learn More: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/modern-contemporary-art-sale-mi0335.html Download The...
Creators
Lucy McRae on Creativity and the Human Body as Art | Visionaries, Episode 2
We meet Lucy McRae, a self-described science fiction artist, filmmaker, and body architect who eventually wants to go to space, exploring how technology and the human body are transcending mediums to create new forms. McRae has...
Sotheby's
Escape and Experimentation in Egon Schiele’s "Trieste Fishing Boat"
By the spring of 1912, Egon Schiele was tired. He and his lover, the model Wally Neuzil, had been moving from town to town in search of freedom and a better life. But their bohemian lifestyle drew ire from local residents and he soon...
Sotheby's
Jack Whitten’s Experimental Abstract Vision
Always restless in his experiments with the color, texture, and form of acrylic paint, Jack Whitten continued to refine the sculptural qualities of his paintings throughout the 1980’s. Ancient Mentor I, from 1985 is a profound example of...
The Art Assignment
Art + Life Rules from a Nun
Sister Corita Kent was a master printmaker and teacher, and her rules for artists and teachers are legendary - let’s break them down.
TED Talks
TED: Why I built my own time machine | Lucas Rizzotto
Experiential artist Lucas Rizzotto was going through a tough breakup, so he did what anyone would do: he built a personal time machine. In a playful talk, he shares how his free-ranging experimentation led to various delightful,...
TED Talks
John Maeda: My journey in design
Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design...
Cerebellum
The Renaissance - Music, Literature And Theatre
No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video discusses...
Healthcare Triage
Trying to Control Blood Pressure Isn't Always the Right Move for the Elderly
I read a study a few weeks ago on blood pressure treatment for nursing home residents, and I almost ignored it. There are so many like it. But it's just ridiculous that this kind of stuff continues, and that we can't seem to do anything...
Curated Video
Solving One Step Equations Using a Pan Balance (Example)
Representing and solving one-step equations on a pan-balance.
World Science Festival
Modern MacGyver: The Dirt Battery
Almost 2 billion people have no access to electricity. Solar power has become more common in the past 20 years, but it can't be active 24 hours a day or in cold climates. Hugo Van Vuuren and his colleagues at Harvard University wanted to...
Blank on Blank
Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine | Blank on Blank
"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at Colorado State University Hear more interview outtakes and learn more about Temple Grandin @...
World Science Festival
A Tree Is to the Universe As a String Is To An Atom
Science takes time. Every scientific discovery, throughout history, has entailed a time lag between proposing the theory accepting it as experimentally proven fact. This is no less probable with regards to today's newest scientific...
Tate
Jonas Mekas – Always Beginning | TateShots
We visit pioneer of avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas, best known for his ‘film diaries’ and ongoing snapshots of his life, filmed throughout his career. On moving to New York City in the late 1940s, Mekas founded Film Culture magazine...
Bêka & Lemoine
MORIYAMA-SAN - Bêka & Lemoine - Trailer 2
Watch the entire film here: http://www.bekalemoine.com/buyit.php MORIYAMA-SAN, the first film about noise music, acrobatic reading, silent movies, fireworks and Japanese architecture. Film length: 63 min One week in the...