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The Natural Harmony of Faces

How the golden ratio might contribute to cinema’s hold on us.

August 3, 2021

Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest

A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.

June 24, 2020

The Carouser and the Great Astronomer

It’s a fine line between oblivion and immortality.

May 13, 2020

Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.

March 20, 2018

How I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now

Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring.

November 10, 2015