Rocketboom!
“We gotta save the space station!!” My new favorite channel on YouTube 🙂
JFK: We choose to go to the Moon
In the fall of 1962, when the USA was far behind the Soviet Union in its space program, JFK held his rivetting “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas, proclaiming space to be the new frontier. I’d like to highlight two excerpts, with the minutes in the video […]
Moon
Can’t wait to see Moon, starring the son of “Ziggy Stardust” himself. Straight SciFi in the footsteps of classics like 2001 – A Space Odyssey (1968), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982) and Solaris (1972, 2002) Great reviews by James Rocchi here and Irtiqa here. http://www.sonyclassics.com/moon/
Sexist quip of the day
Men need space to roam. Women need a room of their own (thank you, Virginia Wolf). Ok, and so how does it sound the other way around: Women need space to roam and men need a room of their own? Everyone needs both – right? So when will the old stereotypes fade?
Beatles: All you need is love
I met two German teachers from Ukraine yesterday who are taking a course to brush up their German and are being supported by the Ukraine Project, which has for over 20 years been organizing an exchange of teachers between Munich and our partner city Kiev. We talked love and the joy of committment being a vital source of energy for anything you want to do.
e. e. cummings: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/somewhere-i-have-never-travelled.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Downloadsomewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always […]
Be have!
Children make funny mistakes as they learn to speak, and English native speakers are no exception. From David Crystal’s blog: A correspondent writes with a nice child language story. While in a supermarket she heard an exasperated mother say to her child: “Will – you – be – have!” To which the child replied: “But […]
