What will change everything?

The Edge Annual Question – 2009 is this: “What will change everything?” Or more explicitly: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?”

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nature videography

Are you familiar with the films of Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou? If you haven’t shown them to students, you might consider the possibility of doing so. Microcosmos was released in 1996 and Genesis in 2004. The nature videography is unparalleled and is accompanied by orchestral music matched to the activities of various life forms. The mood is meditative, with little human voice overs.