“Kids these days!”
It’s one of the oldest, most constant complaints: kids today are ruder, lazier, dumber, etc., than they were at some indeterminate point in the past—usually coinciding with when the complainer was a child. But what if it’s not the kids’ fault? What if they simply aren’t getting the opportunity to learn the […]
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Science class: MIA
Published October 25th, 2007 in Science, Videos, Body & Mind and Human World. 5 CommentsFor everyone who has spent hours zipping around the globe with Google Earth, you can now cruise through space as well with the new Sky feature. Here’s their promo video, with Sally Ride:
October 4th, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. A new documentary, The Fever of ‘57, examines, through archival footage and interviews, the impact that Russia’s success in launching the first satellite had on American consciousness and science. The space race, […]
Ever wondered how alien visitors would describe human life on Earth? Well, if you were asking in 1954, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films had an answer for you. “Man and His Culture” observes—from the perspective of “explorers from Outer Space”—that human beings are organized into cultures, which vary in their languages, religions, how they meet basic […]