分类目录归档：space
So there are lands few and far between on Earth itself
that are hospitable to humans by any measure,
but survive we have.
Our primitive ancestors, when they found their homes and livelihood endangered
Our lives depend
on a world we can't see.
Think about your week so far.
Have you watched TV, used GPS,
checked the weather or even ate a meal?
These many things that enable our daily lives
rely either
In the movie "Interstellar,"
we get an up-close look at a supermassive black hole.
Set against a backdrop of bright gas,
the black hole's massive gravitational pull
bends light into a ring.
However, t
The school of architecture that I studied at some 30 years ago
happened to be across the street from the wonderful art gallery
designed by the great architect Louis Kahn.
I love the building, and I us
It's Christmas Eve, 1968.
The Apollo 8 spacecraft has successfully completed
its first three orbits around the moon.
Launched from Cape Canaveral three days before,
this is the first time
that humans
I was 17 when I chose my career.
I was standing outside
on a hot summer night in Florida
and just a few miles from the ocean.
I was waiting for a miracle to happen.
That summer, I was privileged to wo
We have all probably wondered
how great minds achieved what they achieved, right?
And the more astonishing their achievements are,
the more we call them geniuses,
perhaps aliens
coming from a differen
Chris Anderson: So two months ago, something crazy happened.
Can you talk us through this, because this caught so many people's attention?
Gwynne Shotwell: I'll stay quiet for the beginning,
and then
Every summer when I was growing up,
I would fly from my home in Canada to visit my grandparents,
who lived in Mumbai, India.
Now, Canadian summers are pretty mild at best --
about 22 degrees Celsius o
How can landscapes imbue memory?
When we think about this notion "e pluribus unum" --
"out of many, one,"
it's a pretty strange concept, right?
I mean, with all different races and cultures of people,