[embed]https://youtu.be/yg0yjOcOWsM[/embed] The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift that affects some astronauts when they see the earth from space. Many say they no longer identify with a specific nationality or culture after seeing earth from outer space, instead they see themselves, and all citizens on earth,...
[embed]https://youtu.be/Etuu5_TcgYw[/embed] Ann Bancroft to keynote White House Arctic Science Ministerial September 23, 2016 Story Transcript Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is a beautiful world. President Obama: "Now Climate Change is no longer an abstraction. It's not an issue we can put off for the future, it's happening now....
National Geographic and Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Enric Sala, who launched the Pristine Seas project to identify, survey, protect, and restore the last truly wild places in the ocean...
Mapping Dark Matter Priyamvada Natarajan: When you’re looking out into the night sky, you’re looking back in time, so we’re seeing light from galaxies that left billions of years ago. I find that still so intriguing even after all these years of being a professional astrophysicist I...
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by Heather McElhatton Food Deserts Nikki Collins and her six kids live in a public housing complex on Cleveland’s near east side, where she says buying healthy foods for her family is an ongoing struggle, because they live in an urban food desert. A food desert is...
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The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Japanese physicist, Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Physicist, Arthur B. McDonald for discovering that neutrinos, some of the smallest and most ubiquitous particles in the universe, not only have mass, they can switch their ‘flavors’ or...