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DAVID BYRNE'S THEATER OF THE MIND - SCIENCE SANDBOX FILMS produced by Simons Foundation & People’s TV
Season 11
Q: Who is David Byrne?
David Byrne: ...I have no idea.
Most people know me through music, but when I was in high school I saw science and the arts as b…
2 years, 5 months ago
APRIL GORNIK - Artist, Environmentalist, Co-founder of The Church: Arts & Creativity Center
Season 11
"I was just saying to Eric yesterday, we were walking down the quay and talking and suddenly I said, "People just don't think about place enough. We …
2 years, 6 months ago
LINDSEY ANDERSON BEER - Writer, Director, Producer - Pet Sematary: Bloodlines - Sleepy Hollow - Bambi
Season 11
"For me, I don't start a project unless I have a really clear understanding of who the main characters are and why this is a journey that's necessary…
2 years, 6 months ago
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Season 11
“The legal system is a colonial legal system that is designed to preserve capitalist extraction and all the racial dynamics required to produce racia…
2 years, 6 months ago
ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Founding Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Host of Climate Connections
Season 11
"So the why really depends on where you are. People are not all the same. There is no such thing as the public. There are many, many, many different …
2 years, 6 months ago
ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
Season 11
"I'm really very glad. I was happy to see that within my lifetime that the prospects of not just Mars, but in fact interstellar space is being taken …
2 years, 6 months ago
RALPH GIBSON - Award-winning Photographer - Leica Hall of Fame Inductee
Season 11
"The way I measured time for a very large part of my life was I was always in preparation. I remember as a child I was preparing to make my first com…
2 years, 6 months ago
IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute
Season 11
“The book probes the science and neuroscience behind the idea that confidence can be learned, or whether it is something you inherit. Optimism, hope,…
2 years, 6 months ago
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Season 11
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of …
2 years, 6 months ago
NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research
Season 11
"I don't think a lot of people realize how absolutely important whales are, and not just because they're beautiful and they make people happy, but wh…
2 years, 7 months ago