Jill Bolte Taylor’s 2008 TED Talk, “My Stroke of Insight,” describes the stroke that silenced her left hemisphere in 1996. According to Taylor, her ego went offline, and with it her awareness of any separation between herself and the world around her. Later, as her brain began to heal, she resolved not to let this […]
Macrocosm to microcosm. The video: A quick zoom out to interstellar regions, galaxies collapsing into pinpricks behind you. On this scale, looking back across billions of light years, everything humanly knowable is annihilated. Immensity beyond comprehension. Then zoom back in. Star system, solar system, planet. Closer and closer, diving into a human eye, through the retina to […]
