2DO Before I Die

Group of Teens Capture Images From Space

Four Spanish students have managed to send their own camera-operated weather balloon out to the edge of space, bringing back a series of original images. Total cost? $120....NASA trembles....

For more images and details, click here.

The Northern Lights - Video of Aurora Borealis From Space

Seeing the Northern Lights has long been on my list of things to do - probably ever since I saw 'Local Hero' (great film). One of these days I plan to get up North and see for myself but until then, here's an interesting vantage point: a video put together by astronaut Donald Pettit out of dozens of still photographs he took on a visit to the International Space Station. 

Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity

What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas...

Excerpt: "Only when the brain is confronted with stimuli that it has not encountered before does it start to reorganize perception. The surest way to provoke the imagination, then, is to seek out environments you have no experience with. They may have nothing to do with your area of expertise. It doesn't matter. Because the same systems in the brain carry out both perception and imagination, there will be cross talk."

Link to the Fast Company article here. Or check out the new book, Iconoclast, from which the excerpt is taken.