Safari Live - Day 368 | National Geographic

So, over the past month, billionaires Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson both independently announced that they themselves would be suiting up, hopping in their respective companies’ rockets and launching into space. Jeff Bezos would take to the skies in …

Thank you, Sam. So, when I look through the syllabus of this class and thought about what I could possibly add that would be useful in addition to the very skills, one of the things that I’ve been thinking about has been how do you think about yourself as…

[Music] [Music] [Music] People have cut down trees because they need fuel. People have cut down trees because they need to construct homes. It is important that people do have access to forest and timber resources, but this needs to be on a sustainable ba…

You hear your alarm clock. Snooze it multiple times, and when you finally wake up, you think to yourself, “Ah, here we go again.” You get out of your bed feeling tired and unmotivated. You grab your phone, start scrolling, and see other people living thei…

Have you ever considered how your eye scans across a landscape? I think most people assume that, like a video camera, it pans smoothly across the scene. But I don’t actually think that’s what happens. In truth, I think the eye jumps from image to image as…

People think that when they take math in school, there’s the common response like, “I will never need to use this for the rest of my life,” as they learn trig identities or the Pythagorean theorem or whatever it is that we all remember learning, feeling p…