Image: View of Earth from the moon

13 minutes

[ Art ]

What Could the Creation of Art in Space Mean for our Future?

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Did you know there’s a sculpture floating in the wild unknown outside of our planet? What could this mean for us?

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5 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

The Blind Astronomer Gazing into the Universe

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Meet the Blind Astronomer from Nova Scotia who is peering into space and beauty of the night sky more vividly than most of us ever will!

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Image: Collage of star gazing,, megafauna animals, and snake robot

16 minutes

[ Animals ]

Things to Celebrate One Year Ago: Good News from December 2015!

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If I refreshed your memory about the dreadful things happening in the news one year ago, you’d remember them. But what about the good things? Did we hear enough of that too! Here are some remarkable things to celebrate from a year ago!

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Image: Pale blue dot

6 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

Who Will We Become?

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What would the wise astrophysicist Carl Sagan remind us this morning?

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Image: The Big History Project represented by the Apollo 8 image of earth from the moon's horizon.

14 minutes

[ Education ]

Let’s Go WAY Back: The BIG History Project

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Have you ever laid back under the blanket of a starry sky and wondered about our place in the universe? The history of our existence relies on 8 “magic moments” in time. Here’s the place to have your sense of wonder expanded!

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Image: Colored map of the Mars landscape around a crater taken from Curiosity Driven Science

17 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Why Spend Public Funds on “Curiosity-Driven Science”?

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In tough economic times, have you ever heard someone rant about how worthless some science research can be? Here’s what I’m going to add to that conversation next time! Take a look…

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6 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

What is Dark Matter and Why Does it Matter?

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Dark matter appears to be all around us, and yet it is incredibly difficult to detect. This frontier of science is changing not only the way we understand the composition of our universe, but also our place within it!

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Asking questions without answers

13 minutes

[ Education ]

Asking Questions Without Answers

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What can asking questions without answers teach us? Chris Anderson and TED-Ed team up to help us think about ourselves and the universe in a bigger way! Check it out!

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Image: Milkyway Galaxy

7 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Our Shared Place in the Universe

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What is our place in the universe? Here on Earth we may think we are the center of it all, but today’s video-share gives us a very unique perspective!

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Image: Beauty of Nature on a single flower

7 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

Can We Get Cozy with Uncertainty?

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What if we could find that perfect balance point between wonder and truth. Today we share a video that raises some great questions about getting comfortable with doubt, through the beauty of nature.

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Image: Meteor shower

9 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

What’s the Perseid Meteor Shower?

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Want to spend some time in an “old school” state of wonder? Take someone you care about with you on a trip to outer space tonight or tomorrow night. You may end up with more fun than you expect!

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Image: Aerial photograph of hedge maze

11 minutes

[ Art ]

Aerial Photos You Never Imagined

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Our world is far more beautiful than we can imagine from our one perspective: feet on the ground. Let’s go above places that seem ordinary to us from eye level.

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Image: Hubble space telescope

24 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

The Hubble Telescope is a Time Machine

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Nothing inspires wonder like space! And we might not even realize that we have a 25 year old “workhorse of technology” orbiting our planet, expanding our view of ourselves.

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54 minutes

[ Education ]

Alien Life Right Here on Earth?

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In our hopeful search for new lifeforms in outer space, it seems we often forget the most extraordinary and promising frontier for our species’ survival. Take a look!

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