Stanley Kubrick and Johannes Vermeer try to see eye-to-eye.

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David Nield has written about science and technology for more than 20 years. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Wired, Popular Science, The Guardian, and Gizmodo.

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Namir Khaliq is a writer, film producer, and the founder of Protostellar Media, a science communication production company.

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Nicolas Flament is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong. He obtained his PhD from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France and the University of Sydney. He investigates the deformation of the solid Earth over tens of millions of years by merging geodynamic models with global geological and geophysical observations.

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Santosh Dhungana is a PhD Candidate in environmental futures at the University of Wollongong.

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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Louis Bherer is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and researcher and director at the EPIC Centre, the preventive medicine and physical activity center at the Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Montreal Heart Institute). His work focuses on the impact of lifestyle, physical exercise and cognitive stimulation on the brain health of older adults and patients with cardiovascular disease.