From the BBC Interview for Horizon
‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out‘.
Animated by Fraser Davidson.
Found on: Brain Pickings via Haley Stephenson
Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower
Dreams do come true – Caine’s Arcade
Story of a young boy who over the summer built his own arcade in his dad’s used car parts store. He diligently manned this arcade every weekend hoping and waiting…
What is the David Bowie Song in the Kia Cadenza “Reunion” Commercial?
If you’ve seen the Kia Candenza “Reunion” ad you’ve heard the excellent custom “Let’s Dance” InFiction String Remix. If you haven’t heard it, here’s an auditory treat worth listening to:
Russian Plane Crash Caught on Video
A Tupolev Tu-204 passenger plane overshot a Russian airport on Saturday, December 29, 2012. This amazing footage was shot from a highway beside Vnukovo International Airport and captures the moment debris begins to spill on to the road. Five are reported to have died during the crash…
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
How to Win Friends and Influence Space Exploration – SXSW Recording
I spoke on a panel in Austin at the SXSW Interactive conference with astronaut Ron Garan, citizen scientist and SpaceUp founder Chris Radcliff, flight controller Holly Griffith, and science podcaster Mike Doornbos. We discussed community engagement, creating cool stuff, taking pictures from space, and what everyone can do to make this a better world. Here’s a recording of the session…
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