Ergebnis für "Lazarus" in Wissenschaft & Technik

On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves.

Charles Hood is on a boat, wearing at least two life jackets as he scans the sky for seabirds and plumbs the depths of his—and our—relationship with the vast Pacific Ocean. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for his collection of essays A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, Hood now brings his irrepressible curiosity to the lives of petrels, frigate birds, sea snakes, and flying fish.

In the 1960s humans took their first steps away from Earth - and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity, and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011 Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era.

This is an invitation to you to join me on a journey - a journey framed by two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?' In this podcast, I will be interviewing guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions. These guides will come from a diverse range of intellectual fields and wisdom traditions.I seek to bring together and reintegrate Spirit and Matter, i.e. to reveal how spirituality needs to (literally) incorporate an understanding of material, political realities and how political thinkers and ...