Here is a wonderful exploration of the art and design of currency, especially the design of the fictional currency of a colony in Antarctica. These designs reflect not only culture and history, but the imagery of what a country has for the future.

 
Evolution can easily be misinterpreted in terms of Social Darwinism and the survival of the fittest. But evolution is more like the survival of the most varied, where various organisms are actualized from a virtual field of potentials. Each creature is driven by difference rather than equivalence as it expresses itself in the world. Species do not determine individual organisms, demanding conformity, but rather these organisms give shape to a species as a working category. The emphasis on difference is a denial of the ideas of one species or group inherently superior to another.

 
Alain Badiou has made a direct connection between freedom and truth. True freedom is incompatible with the situation that predetermines individuals, and that will always redefine freedom for its own perpetuation. Rather, freedom requires an initial break with the existing structures that must then lead to a new exploration of truth. This exploration of truth is a committment to the creation of something new. Therefore, freedom is both a resistance to what exists and a creation of what could be.

 
The populist movement of the later part of the 1800's, that reached a peak with the Populist Party, is still relevant to the issues of today. Most specifically, it is a challenge to the rise of corporate power and its inherently undemocratic nature. The populists of many decades ago, like the Green Party of today, sought deep structural change that harkened back to the vision Jefferson had for the country's economy as made up of self-employed artisans and small farmers.

 
This Indian celebration involves showering people with colored powder, which results in people who look like they were tye-dyed. The effect is very striking and beautiful.

 
Here is a wonderful art installation based on science. It is the footage of a star cluster in outer space projected on to the interior surface of a room. The website for this installation allows one to have a panoramic view of the room.