Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal

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By George

Out of the Blue
I love the expression “out of the blue.” This expression …
A Hierarchy of Knowledge
The history of polar exploration a hundred and more years …
Glamour During The First Antarctic Night
Virginia Postrel has written the best book I know on …
Access Versus Lack of Access
In presenting The Blinding Sea to audiences in Canada, the …
Oral Versus Written Traditions
In The Blinding Sea, I combine different kinds of historical …
The Strange Case of Doctor Cook
As a medical doctor from Brooklyn, Frederick Cook saved the …
Skiing and Polar Exploration
I have written a few blogs recently about the way …
Beyond Words
Of course, a film goes beyond words. Dialogue, interviews, narration, …
Film Music
Continuing on the differences between academic research and film-making … …
The Therefore Syndrome
As I continue screening The Blinding Sea in Britain, France, …

The Human Machine VII
For Paul-Henri Dietrich d'Holbach, human beings and all of Nature …
The Human Machine VI
For Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the human being is …
The Human Machine V
For Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the human being is a metaphysical …
The Human Machine IV
This episode is devoted to Thomas Hobbes, whose fear of …
The Human Machine III
This episode is devoted to René Descartes, who developed mechanistic …
The Human Machine II
This episode is devoted to William Harvey, who discovered the …
The Human Machine I
This episode is devoted to Andreas Vesalius, the founder of …
Earthly Paradise
In this episode, George explores the historical of the quest …
Intuition, Myth and Metaphor
George takes a historical tour of myth and metaphor, both …
A New Beginning
Science is sometimes seen as a new religion, opening the …