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NASA: Back in orbit?
Worth a read: Fascinating Op/Ed piece in today’s Times by Carolyn Porco on the brightening future for human space travel, which has been faltering since the Nixon era. TED2006 speaker, Burt Rutan, had...
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Countdown to the Mars landing tonight!
Tonight at 10:31:30 pm PDT, the rover Curiosity will land on Mars. And if you haven’t yet watched the astonishing way it’ll get down to the surface, just watch this: Why go to Mars? In 2008, Charles...
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Life on Mars: A Q&A with aerospace engineer (and meme-magnet) Bobak Ferdowsi
Teen reporters Sadie Cruz and Nia Ashley conducted lots of interviews with speakers at the TEDYouth conference on November 17. Their Q&As will run on the TED Blog over the next few weeks. Below,...
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Spatzle in space: Fellows Friday with Angelo Vermeulen
Angelo Vermeulen taking soil samples for microbial analysis during the shakedown mission at MDRS in Utah. Photo: Kate Greene. Can real food be cooked on Mars? Thanks to the work of artist, biologist...
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Using serious math to answer weird questions: Randall Munroe at TED2014
Randall Munroe. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Cartoonist (and former NASA roboticist) Randall Munroe illustrates the questions that keep you (or at least him) up at night. Whether that’s “What would...
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The Great Thanksgiving Listen, a new “Goldilocks” planet, and the White House...
The TED community has been doing some big things over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. Let’s interview our elders. This Thanksgiving, high school students across the United States...
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: Tabetha Boyajian at TED2016
Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian is on the hunt for new planets. As part of that search, she works with a citizen science site, Planet Hunters, to review reams of space telescope data. And what these...
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