TED talk: The art of creating awe
Apollo 13 was one of those movies. When I was seven years old, my mother took me to see it at a Sunday matinee. And I was hooked. I just knew – when I grew up, I’d be an astronaut. The movie held that much power for me. While pursuing a career in the space industry […]
Walking on thin air
When the new fall Roadies and interns arrived in San Diego at the beginning of August, we gathered to watch “Man on Wire.” The Academy Award-winning documentary follows the high-wire walker, Philippe Petit, planning and crossing the World Trade Center Towers—on a steel wire. One misstep, and you fall. And it’s a long way down. While […]
Samantha Power TED talk
During the Rwanda Genocide, Samantha Power tells us that Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado congresswoman explained to reporters that they were “getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.” Up to this point in time there was no “endangered peoples movement”, as […]