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1) Going places
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Rafael has looked forward to the Going Places contest and builds his go-cart from a kit in record time, but his neighbor, Maya, has a much more interesting and creative idea for her entry and Rafael decides to help.
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First, Howard Gardner conquered long held misconceptions about 'intelligence' and 'understanding'. Now, drawing conclusions from the lives of extraordinary individuals like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, and Virginia Woolf, Howard Gardner presents a revolutionary new psychology of creativity and leadership. Here, in this dynamic presentation for the classroom, discover where leaders and creators come from. In creativity and leadership, Gardner...
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What, exactly, is creativity? Take a closer look at what makes a creative person in this introductory lecture that explores ancient ideas about creativity (including the muses of the ancient Greeks); debunks common myths about the sources of creativity; and examines how play, passion, practice, and purpose can enhance your own creative thinking.
6) Brainwave
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Launched in 2008 by the Rubin Museum of Art, Brainwave pairs celebrities from many walks of life: actors, musicians, comedians, choreographers, filmmakers, artists, and authors; with leading neuroscientists and other experts to explore how the human mind works. In provocative, far-reaching, and unscripted conversations, the best and brightest explore memory and perception, creativity and consciousness, happiness, fear, illusions, and dreams.
7) Flux gourmet
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A dysfunctional sonic collective -- a band devoted to the sounds of the culinary arts -- navigates rivalries internal and external in an absurdly original feast for the senses from the singular Peter Strickland.
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After the success of the pioneering Art of Documentary Filmmaking workshop held in Yangon, Myanmar in 2005, Anglo-Burmese filmmaker Lindsey Merrison and four experienced documentary editors from Europe and Australia returned in 2006 to mount The Art of Documentary Editing. Some of the young Burmese men and women on this residential course had previous experience of editing but several had never touched an edit suite in their lives. For one month,...
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A humorous, satirical and unique philosophical exploration of the creative process - its angst, its thrills, its purpose and its methods. Bringing together three of our worlds most unique artists, a famous quantum physicist/philosopher, and a world renown story teller; I LIVE FOR ART explores this most vital aspect; creativity straight from the trenches from which is arises. Told in an original blend of character driven documentary fused with vital...
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Dramatizes Edison's invention of the light bulb focusing on the character traits of perseverence, conviction and honesty that influenced his final success. The inventor's success is also attributed to his ability to make loyal friends and assistants, and to work diligently in the face of dishonest investors. As the drama unfolds, the scientific principles of heat, vaccums, carbon, glass and resistance are also demonstrated in story form. Finally,...
12) Young Tom Edison
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The teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge.
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Conductor and violinist Scott Yoo is on the road again, for Season 4 of Now hear this. Join him in Buenos Aires, to learn the tango and Piazzolla's conflicted relationship with it. In Scotland and Germany, explore the connection between mental health and creative genius. In the boroughs of New York, meet a dynamic new composer pointing classical in a new direction. And in Spain, discover the breathtaking musical portraits of Albeniz.
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