Selected Short Documentaries
About 7 minutes each. Mostly about science, design, technology, and their intersections. Featuring interviews with domain experts.
Classic cuisine meets high tech at Chef Achatz's renowned Alinea Restaurant.
How IED blast waves impact the brains of the victims who survive them.
A new muscle-like material could transform everything from band-aids to torpedoes.
How modified bacteria can turn carbon-negative grasses into petroleum.
On whether anthropogenic climate change is real — and the risks of doing nothing.
Prosthetics wired into nerves foretell devices that meld living tissue and electronics.
Architects now use custom shapes anywhere — not just in exotic, costly buildings.
Listening to music doesn't help people's brains much but creating it does.
How to design new devices, medications, and processes using evolutionary principles.
Room-sized touch screens handle 20 touches at a time to simplify collaboration.
Why laptops for children in developing countries matter as much as food and health.
Why understanding stem cells would lead to cures for diseases like cancer.
A yeast-based platform tests possible Alzheimer's cures fast: 100,000 in a few weeks.
How a tiny valve lets through molecules one at a time for precision manufacturing.
New technologies enable computers to interpret not only words but tone of voice.
The Web's inventor tells how webpages that say what they mean will revolutionize it.
Co-founder Evan Williams, when Twitter was still tiny, on being "ephemeral and trivial."
A doctor tells about kids with craniofacial deformities and research to save their lives.
Other Videos
Here are some in other genres. If you're looking for one that's not here, let me know and I'll send a Vimeo link if available.