Three weeks ago, I gave birth to a baby. After a long and sometimes challenging pregnancy where I was nervous a lot of the time, I am both relieved to hold a healthy boy in my arms and totally smitten with him. We joke around here — and now I’m on record in the New York Times saying …
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NASA’s master plan – to create the next space airlines
The Commercial Crew Program is responsible for helping companies develop vehicles that can ferry astronauts, and maybe civilians, to space. Could this lead to a ‘spaceline’ industry, a la the airlines? An interview with Ed Mango, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program: What’s the goal of the Commercial Crew Program? We still have Americans in …
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Portrait of Vince – a time lapse video of 0-9 years-old in two minutes
I filmed my son every week, from birth up until he turned 9 years old and then made this time lapse edit in Final Cut Pro.
Amazing photos of a seal birth on the beach
// Photos via Save La Jolla Seals
The Earth is filling up, by NPR (video)
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West. As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, …