April 15, 2012
Lasercats 7 on SNL
Downton Sixby on Jimmy Fallon
Beach House - Lazuli
Central Washington Road Trip - "The Scablands"
by Allison Williams on Seattle Met
LET’S GET ONE THING out of the way: “The Scablands” is a terrible name. Central Washington’s most dramatic geology got the short end of the nomenclature stick when it was dubbed the Channeled Scablands by some unpoetic scientist. The nasty name labels an area of flood discharge routes carved by a post–ice age flood some 14,000 years ago. “They are channeled, and they look like scabs,” shrugs University of Washington earth scientist Mike Harrell. “It’s not the most attractive name, but it’s descriptive.”
Good thing these scabs are gorgeous.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Our Future In Space
CURWOOD: So, what has happened here? Now back in the sixties, I remember, there was this sense of wonder about the world -
TYSON: You're telling me!
CURWOOD: - and what's happened, that when kids go into the classroom these days, they don't get that sense of wonder about the natural world?
TYSON: And the people want to believe that the solution to that is, let's get more inspiring teachers. Well, in mathematics we call that a necessary but insufficient condition to achieve the goal. Yes, you want inspiring teachers. Go ahead. But don't believe that that's going to solve the problem. Because a teacher can light a flame but something has to keep that flame fanned as they proceed through their educational pipeline.
So when you have a big, ambitious mission, such as space exploration, a field that taps all the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering and math fields, here you have the call for excellence and innovation on these frontiers because we're going into space in a big way and that will reverberate down the academic pipeline in ways that - it will be like a force of nature.
You create the more scientists and engineers that you've been searching for. You innovate and you have new products. Your factory can't go oversees because they haven't figured out how to make it yet. And when new economies get invented, and developed, and promoted in a next generation, we rise up out of our economic doldrums and we become a competitive nation once again. Rather than on the sidelines watching the rest of the nations who do understand this take the lead.
by Maria Popova
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate thediscomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
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