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What was the the most academically influential video you saw as a young child?
I spent the evening tonight going over great math videos with my wife and daughter. We looked at the most recent videos from Vi Hart, and I was happy to introduce to the both of them the "Powers of Ten" video by Charles & Ray Eames - somehow, I was lucky enough to have been introduced to this video while I was in nursery school. I just recently realized how influential this video has been during my whole life.
- hammerbrostime 15y agoHere is the "Powers of Ten" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
- googoobaby 15y agoI never saw any "videos" as a young child. Such things didn't exist during the Jurassic.
- hammerbrostime 15y agoHa, ok 8MM film works as well :) I think thats how I saw "Powers of Ten" originally anyways.
- googoobaby 15y ago"Hemo, the Magnificent" probably kindled my interest in the biosciences.
- Urgo 15y agoDonald in Mathmagic Land was one of my favorites for sure. Surprised to see it was made in 1959 though. I didn't think it was that old (For reference I was born in 1980). I found it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD4gb0p5RM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD4gb0p5RM
- sebphfx 15y agoratopolis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxXKtnJEEs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxXKtnJEEs Ok. I wasn't a young child, I was a teen but it marked me.
- sebphfx 15y agothey basically put a bunch of rats in cages to try to provoke certain behaviors in an overpopulated environment.They show homosexuality,murder and addiction amongst rats.
- taliesinb 15y agoCarl Sagan's Cosmos, hands down. The soundtrack still gives me a little shiver when I hear it.
- aorshan 15y agoHonestly, watching Star Wars and other Sci-fi movies with my dad helped kindle an interest in science in me more than anything else.