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The US astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan was able to make complex scientific questions thoroughly arresting and human – at times even poetic. Set to awe-inspiring digital recreations of strange yet not unfamiliar worlds elsewhere in our solar system, Wanderers takes Sagan’s timeless words on the human instinct for exploration, and imagines what the next stage might look like: to Mars and beyond into space.
Director: Erik Wernquist
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Neuroscience
The brain repurposed our sense of physical distance to understand social closeness
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Art
Grotesque imagery meets religious conservatism in Hieronymus Bosch’s art
51 minutes
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Physics
Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface
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Mathematics
How a verbal paradox shattered the notion of total certainty in mathematics
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Values and beliefs
How a God-fearing Jewish woman found atheism – and bacon – in her later years
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War and peace
Before he leaves to go to war, Artem, 18, says goodbye to the man who raised him
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Metaphysics
To see the Universe more clearly, think in terms of processes, not objects
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Computing and artificial intelligence
How machine learning can help historians decode ancient inscriptions
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Animals and humans
What the ancient city of Kars looks like from the perspective of its stray dogs
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