Tuesday, December 16, 2014

(Higher Level-Advanced) The Math of Starry Night



Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.


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The math of Starry Night

Saturday, December 21, 2013

(Higher level-Advanced) The Secret Life of the Orchestra



Karl Steven is a local genius who went to the same school as I did. In this extremely informative and enjoyable four-part series Karl explores the four families of orchestral instruments: brass, percussion, woodwind, and strings. Along the way we find out about how they work, their unusual past, and meet some of the players who devote their lives to them.

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The Secret Life Of