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Why one of our simplest designs – the light bulb – is also one of our best
Simple and curiously humanlike in its design, the incandescent light bulb revolutionised the way we live, yet it has hardly changed over the past century. Composed of the musings of the UK-based lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, this video is a brief ode to the humble object, and the beauty of its simplicity and duality.
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Art
An artistic collaboration across centuries brings a 1432 battle scene to arresting life
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Values and beliefs
A funeral director takes in bodies that social stigma leaves unclaimed
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History of technology
Reading the strings and knots that keep the secrets of the Inka Empire
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Demography and migration
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Dance and theatre
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Nature and landscape
Honouring the caribou, in dreams and memories from an Innu singer-songwriter
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Dance and theatre
Technology, philosophy, randomness – how Merce Cunningham pushed dance to its limits
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History of technology
Behold as a mechanical foghorn in Shetland awakes from its year-long slumber
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Animals and humans
An unflinching look at a provocative public dissection of a ‘surplus’ zoo lion
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