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Re:How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian by pbhjpbhj on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:46PM (#19827573)
Oh yes absolutely, and it's not the current sun, it's the 8 minutes ago sun, and the photons may have spent a lot longer getting to you maybe 10-100 thousands years bouncing around in the sun before it escapes, shoots through Space, maybe bounces again and ends it's journey flexing a molecule in your eye.

It's mind blowing to me.

Re:How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian by mncharity on Saturday May 04, 2019 @04:15PM (#19829052)
> It's mind blowing

:) When people watch this[1], and I'm standing next to them, they'll often ask about the ripples. But if they were watching it alone, there isn't an easy way to do that.

Someone did an art project, where you sit and watch an interesting drama video. But why was it interesting? There's an eye tracker, and the video is a graph of scenes, like an old "choose your own adventure" story. So if you're interested in character A... the video explores/emphasizes character A.

AR/VR is coming. With eye tracking (eventually... patents). So...

Imagine science education that's consistently mind blowing, rather than boring. What might that be like?

Though a cautionary note: there's apparently a problem of students, who have consistently had excellent teachers, clearly and motivationally presenting material, reaching college without the skills or inclination to themselves wrestle with a body of knowledge and distill understanding. Another opportunity for improvement. :)

[1] stop-motion animation with individual molecules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0