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Beginning in January 2021, advances in AI research have produced a plethora of deep-learning models capable of generating original images from simple text prompts, effectively extending the human imagination. Researchers at OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and others have developed text-to-image tools that they have not yet released to the public, and similar models have proliferated online in the open-source arena and at smaller companies like Midjourney.

A stunning cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is the final film in an award-winning trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark. (TVO)

• Film website
• Film Twitter
• Big World, Small Planet: The Anthropocene
• The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? - The Guardian

From the director of Chasing Ice comes this breathtaking cinematic journey below the world’s oceans to its coral reefs. Spectacular time-lapse footage reveals the devastating impact of climate change, which threatens to eradicate this marvelous ecosystem—within our lifespan.

• Film website
• Explore the Great Barrier Reef with Google Street View
• The Ocean Agency Education Resources

I sat down with Jad Abumrad and talked about sound, music and the function of music. Then I turned that conversation into a film.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discover, of pulsars. But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked, and although the Nobel prize was given for this discovery, Burnell did not receive.

The story of the student who became a planet hunter. When Anne Dattilo attended a guest lecture at the University of Texas she had no idea it would be the start of a journey involving complex algorithms, a space telescope breaking down in orbit, a trip to an observatory in the Chihuahuan desert and, finally, the discovery of two new planets.

Did the plastic industry use the lure of recycling to sell even more plastic? A look at the mounting crisis of plastic waste in the environment.

Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. Johnny Harris cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat.