TED - Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world

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What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
And I love to use film to take us on a journey through portals of time and space, to make the invisible visible, because what that does, it expands our horizons, it transforms our perception, it opens our minds and it touches our heart.

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• invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see. TED-2014-Lin-galaxy：very big very hot very small very strange

• inspire and open people's hearts. Beauty is nature’s tool for survival – you protect what you love. 大师兄：你因何执剑。屠苏：保护所爱之人

• What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see. 人。

too slow for our eyes to detect

• broaden our perspective of life. 因何上大学？认识人类伟大，开阔眼界。

• turn data into a time-lapse view of a global economy in motion. And decades of data give us the view of our entire planet as a single organism sustained by currents circulating throughout the oceans and by clouds swirling through the atmosphere. 智慧地球，智慧城市。

too fast for our eyes

• technology that can look into that world as well. With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. 田伯光被老和尚胁迫到华山找令狐冲，风清扬对令狐冲说：田伯光有快刀，你就需要比他更快。

• how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them. 《模仿游戏》

• the air flow that they produce. Nobody knew the secret, but high speed shows that a dragonfly can move all four wings in different directions at the same time. 人工鸟 vs. 空气动力学. 一心四用：一手画方，一手画圆

too small for us to see

• there are unseen creatures living all over your body, including mites that spend their entire lives dwelling on your eyelashes, crawling over your skin at night. TED-2014-Yong-Parasite

• We think we know most of the animal kingdom, but there may be millions of tiny species waiting to be discovered. 知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也：不知道也是一种知道啊；未名也是一个名字啊

• spider's silk thread is pound for pound stronger than steel but completely elastic. 软则硬，硬则软 TED-2014-Herr-Bionics

• single carbon atoms. With the tip of a powerful microscope, we can actually move atoms and begin to create amazing nano devices. 纳米碳管 TED-2013-Andraka-PancreaticCancer-Test
  

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Knowing that there's so much around us we can see forever changes our understanding of the world, and by looking at unseen worlds, we recognize that we exist in the living universe, and this new perspective creates wonder and inspires us to become explorers in our own backyards.
Who knows what awaits to be seen and what new wonders will transform our lives.