World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass currently serves as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Bahariya Oasis. Dr. Hawass is responsible for many exciting recent discoveries, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya. He supervised […]
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Todd Rundgren
December 13, 2008 – 4:25 pm
My latest CD is Areana, if you like raging guitars and a guy screaming like he has his nuts caught in a belgian waffle maker you may like it. What is your most memorable moment? What are you most proud of? That just tells you they never listened to the CD. You predicted everything that […]
Bruce Shapiro
December 13, 2008 – 11:56 am
Not a very sexy term. It’s the term industry uses “motion control” to describe what we often call robotics. I was a med student the topic was chaos theory and smooth tissue in the male urethra. I learned about the idea of algorithmic art. Started computing my own Mandelbrot sets. Then and even today I […]
Peter Hirshberg and Tim Kring
December 13, 2008 – 9:54 am
Kring: I’ve been involved with TV for 20 years now, and I’ve told stories in a very linear and flat way. TV has had trouble holding its audience, so the networks are interested in tying online and offline. Hirshberg: With Crossing Georgia you tried to do new media? Kring: It jsut didn’t feel like it […]
David Binder, Raisin in the Sun
December 13, 2008 – 9:02 am
What clearly set Raisin in the Sun apart was that it deals with a black American family not a white American family. I acquired the rights for a Broadway revival and began the task of getting it started, which meant we needed a director. If you have a good director, you can get the stars, […]
Alvy Ray Smith
December 12, 2008 – 7:23 pm
You can find more about Alvy Ray Smith’s website here. Known for his work in computer graphics, he now has a second life as a genealogist. Not going to talk about Pixar.I’d like to pay homage to the theory of computability. It’s the theory of how computers work and one of the great inventions of […]
Scott Kim, puzzle designer
December 12, 2008 – 3:12 pm
Scott Kim’s website is at shufflebrain.com. For the last 20 years I’ve been designing puzzles. Have done them for books, toys, computer games, puzzle column for Discover magazine. A puzzle is a problem that is fun to solve (as opposed to everyday problems) and has a right answer (as opposed to a toy or game). […]
Susana Martinez-Conde, neurologist
December 12, 2008 – 2:50 pm
I use visual tools a lot to try to understand how our brain constructs reality. Shows illusion of something that appears to be a female nude but is really the underarm of a guy: Second illusion shows the A and B squares are actually the same color: Personal question, to find the best visual illusion. […]
Mark Stutzman: Being an Artist
December 12, 2008 – 12:25 pm
My whole life I dreamed of being an artist. My friends or family would say “you’re quite the artist” and it upset me because I didn’t feel like I was anywhere close to where I needed to be. My favorite was Peter Paul Rubens, my dream was to be something like that. I had a […]
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