February 2012
23 posts
“I could stand in front of eighth-graders and say, ‘Who wants to be an aerospace engineer so you can design an airplane 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew?’ That doesn’t usually work. But if I say, ‘Who wants to be an aerospace engineer to design the airplane that will navigate the rarefied atmosphere of Mars?’ because that’s where we’re going next, I’m getting the best students in the class.”
—Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via http://m.npr.org/story/147351252?url=/2012/02/27/147351252/space-chronicles-why-exploring-space-still-matters)
Infinity Environment →
blogs.artinfo.com
“One of my tests for the greatness of art is whether it rewards a sustained gaze, whether it gives me new reasons to spend time with it, whether I find new joys with continued viewing. Wheeler’s newest ‘infinity environment’ passes those tests in an unusual way: It rewards our gaze by transforming looking into a physical experience.”
