ONE IDEA AFTER ANOTHER

摘要

In short video clips, the new website Sputnik Observatory seamlessly links disparate ideas into cohesive, connected trains of thought. One thread-the site prefers the term "pathway"-begins with an elderly physicist speculating about whether humans might have dormant capabilities, like being able to fly, and ends with a neurologist explaining why some brainsturn sounds into mental paintings. In between, big thinkers touch on Buddhism, the animal brain, and the cellular response to emotional experiences. Taken together, the speakers articulate a multilayered vision of what it means, presumably, to be in control of one's faculties (thus the pathway's name, "Lost Faculty").