Robert Krulwich appears in the following:
Glenn Gould In Rapture
Thursday, September 04, 2014
A Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
A Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
They look so strange. Fifty steel columns, most of them 33 feet tall, standing upright in the middle of nowhere, like a gaggle of broken combs. What are they? They are set on a zigzaggy brick pad at the edge of a field about 55 miles from Durban, South Africa. ...
Roadways You Can Install Like Throw Rugs
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Roadways You Can Install Like Throw Rugs
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Magic carpets you know about. Aladdin had one. But how about this?
A country road carpet? Walk into a meadow, drag it behind you, and wherever you go, the road settles perfectly into place. That's Erik Johansson doing the dragging, and, I don't know, he doesn't seem to be ...
When Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of Them
Thursday, August 21, 2014
When Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of Them
Thursday, August 21, 2014
What a difference 180 years makes.
Back in the 1830s, a Scottish minister and amateur astronomer named Thomas Dick tried to calculate the number of intelligent creatures in the universe. He assumed that all heavenly bodies supported intelligent life, maybe not exactly like us, but similar to us in ...
If You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane Puzzler
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
If You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane Puzzler
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Here's a puzzle I bet you've never pondered.
Imagine you are very, very pregnant. For the purposes of this mind game, you are a married American woman (with an American spouse) and you are about to board a plane and, pregnant as you are, they let you on.
Your flight, ...
When Snails Lose Their Way
Friday, August 15, 2014
Every so often, and I wish it were more often, Vi Hart becomes a snail. Vi is one of the Web's finest math geeks. Her site is where millions (and I mean that literally) of us go to learn about topology, hexaflexagons, infinity, mobius strips, Fibonacci numbers. She ...
When Snails Lose Their Way
Friday, August 15, 2014
Stephen Hawking's Dazzling Life Becomes A Movie, But What Sort Of Movie?
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Hmmm, I wonder how they're going to handle this one. It's a messy tale. In November, Focus Features will release a new movie, The Theory of Everything, which describes what happened to the young physicist Stephen Hawking back when he was a student, newly in love, not yet sick ...
Stephen Hawking's Dazzling Life Becomes A Movie, But What Sort Of Movie?
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Elemental Storytelling
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
There's a photograph I know that shows a kid's bicycle lying on its side, one wheel turned upright, a smear of blood tracing its path on the concrete. There's a little package still latched to the back, waiting for its owner to return. You can see where the bike swerved, ...
Elemental Storytelling
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Happy Birthday Bobby K
Thursday, August 07, 2014
What A Balloon Shouldn't Do, But For Some Reason Does
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Great teaching — just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction — is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special. And "Destin," who goes by one name and has his own little physics channel on ...
How To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Nations need borders for security, for revenue, for defense, or identity. But for fun? Introducing borders that giggle.
How To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
So many nations are breaking up. Ukraine is in pieces. Moldova is teetering. Libya has no government to speak of. Sudan broke in two last year; now both sides are fighting. Yugoslavia is seven countries. Nigeria has a Christian/Muslim split. Syria has split so many ways it's barely there. Even ...
Guess Who's Been Waiting In The Lobby For A Hundred Million Years?
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Sometimes the quiet ones surprise us.
Take moss — those fuzzy green pads you see on the sides of old trees, or hanging onto rocks. Who notices moss? It's just ... there, doing whatever it does — so slowly, so terribly slowly, that nobody bothers to think about it. Moss ...
