Actress Sandra Bullock and director Alfonso Cuarón talk with Pearlman:
In researching her role as an astronaut for the new movie, Sandra Bullock talked with NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman while she was onboard the International Space Station in 2010-2011.
This short video (via GeekPress) is a great example of the late Richard Feynman‘s extraordinary eloquence in explaining scientific phenomena. Whether it was a basic or advanced physics topic, he could turn it into a marvelously vivid adventure:
Can’t resist posting another one:
And here is the first of a set of videos in which he discusses “The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out”:
He taught an introductory physics course at Caltech in the early 1960s and out of that effort came a famous set of lectures in which he illuminated aspects of fundamental physics far beyond standard introductory textbooks. The lectures are now available on line: The Feynman Lectures on Physics
I recently posted an item about the Focus Fusion technique aimed at achieving power generation from nuclear fusion. Back in February I poste about a Lockheed-Martin fusion reactor project, which is also a fairly near term low cost approach.