What does the future hold for human space exploration? With more countries getting involved and costs falling, ambitious projects are being proposed.
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Space, Reaching for the Stars
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A Home in Space
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is back on Earth after 200 days in space. She tells the full story of the International Space Station, in orbit 400 km above our planet.
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Michael Pollan: “How to Change Your Mind” | Talks at Google
Michael Pollan has written 5 New York Times best sellers including Food Rules; In Defense of Food; and The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In this talk, he shares insights and answer questions about psychedelics based on research done for his book "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence".
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/x37Cpr
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Presentable #47: The Oral History of Information Architecture, with Lou Rosenfeld - Relay FM
My old friend Lou Rosenfeld joins the program. He co-authored the seminal book on Information Architecture in the ’90s. We go deep into the history of the discipline, and how it’s playing out in a new generation of designers today.
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Ep. 299: Space Stations, Part 4 — Future Space Stations
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Can we build an elevator to space?
With the end of the shuttle program and an International Space Station still in need of supplies, the aerospace industry is working the kinks of out of a century-old idea to build a service elevator from Earth to outer space.
Tagged with space elevator engineering space
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Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
For Google’s Security and Privacy Month, we are honored to present the real Frank Abagnale, Renowned Cybersecurity And Fraud Prevention Expert, Bestselling Author & Subject of Catch Me If You Can.
His transformation from one of the world’s most notorious con men to an international cybersecurity expert trusted by the FBI has been mythologized in film and literature – but the takeaways he shares are the real deal.
Frank’s contributions to the world of security are immeasurable. He has become a hero to hundreds of public and private sector organizations for his indispensable counsel and strategic insight on safeguarding information systems and combating cyber-fraud.
With an eye on the latest techniques developed by high-tech criminals to deceive and defraud, Frank leaves audiences with a deep understanding of today’s evolving security landscape, and more importantly, a vision of how to make the world a safer place.
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The Habitat by Gimlet Media
The true story of a fake planet. Listen to the entire series starting on Wednesday, April 18th.
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Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory | Internet History Podcast
Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory.” In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s life with Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman, authors of a great biography of the man called A Mind At Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man.
http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2018/05/claude-shannon-father-of-information-theory/
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Jordan Peterson [Full Interview] Heated Exchange w/ BBC Radio’s Philip Dodd
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This is a great interview. Enjoy. Philip Dodd does a great job of pushing Peterson and Peterson does a great job of defending his position. There is plenty of great substance in this one interview.
Self help, identity politics and the influence of postmodernists are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star and Canadian clinical psychologist, Jordan B. Peterson.
Dr. Jordan B Peterson was raised as a Christian conservative, and began questioning religion in his early teens. He criticizes the New Atheists (specifically Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris) for oversimplifying the philosophy of Christianity when making their critiques. Peterson often points to the symbolic underlying meaning of the archetypal ideas in religious mythology when explaining his understanding of religion.
He grew up in Fairview, Alberta, Canada, a small town of 3,000 people 580 km (360 mi) northwest of Edmonton, Alberta. He resided in Montreal from 1985 to 1993, where he studied under the supervision of Robert O. Pihl and Maurice Dongier. From 1993 to 1998 he lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while teaching and conducting research at Harvard. He has resided in Toronto since 1998.
At the age of 13, Peterson h…
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