Video helped the Radiolab

I found some cool videos the other day. And they're actually not of funny cats or stupid stunts that people are doing off buildings through rings of fire.

Since I generally cruise YouTube for a good mental bubble gum exercise (thank you Friday, Friday) and not much else, it was a small shock to the system when I came across a couple of videos I actually had to think about.

Each video captivated my interest - complex in its simplicity, simple with its complexity. I was simultaneously proud of myself for figuring out that it was “saying” something and ashamed of myself for taking half the video (or more...) to figure that out.

Do check em out.

The vids were created by a filmmaking team called Everynone and were inspired by a radio program called Radiolab; inspired in particular by two of their episodes: “Words” and “Desperately Seeking Symmetry,” respectively.

Radiolab comes to us from New York City. It is a radio program produced by a public radio station and is broadcast to radio stations across the United States, or also available as a podcast.

The show focuses, as you might be able to tell by the two videos, on broad topics open to interpretation and exploration, and seeks to make the questions and answers of science and philosophy accessible and enjoyable to a general public.

A study sponsored by the National Science Foundation and conducted by Multimedia Research a few years ago showed that more than 95% of the show's listeners found the science-based material on the show to be accessible, and around 80% found the pace of the program to be exciting.

Whoa I don't know if my little mom-cuddles-cute-kitten saturated brain can handle scientific stuff, but exciting could be worth a shot.

If you want to check it out too, you can go download the program broadcasts by Radiolab and take a look at more videos by Everynone.