PBS
How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
The Sun: an entity worshipped as a god throughout time and across cultures. The source of all life and sustenance for our little blue space rock, and also a force of unthinkable destructive power. But soon humanity will reach out its...
SciShow
Meet Icarus: The Farthest Star We've Ever Seen
We’ve seen a distant star from another galaxy far, far away, and the Milky Way is growing, thanks to baby stars born in the outer edge of our galaxy’s disk.
SciShow
Using Sunlight to Propel Spaceships
When scientists are planning missions, they sometimes have to take into account the fact that the light from the Sun pushes on the spacecraft. But with solar sails, they can also use that pressure to propel the craft along.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins
In mythological ancient Greece, Icarus flew above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, defying the laws of man and nature. To witnesses on the ground, he looked like a god, and he felt like one too. But, in his society, the line...
Oxford Comma
On Suffering: Musee des Beaux Arts
So the title's in French, the pronouns are separated from the antecedents, and some horse is scratching its butt...While Auden asks a lot of his readers, those that take the time to work through the poem often find it fascinating....
Next Animation Studio
Pluto should still be considered a planet, according to new study
The International Astronomical Union should ‘rescind their non-scientific definition’ of Pluto as a dwarf planet, according to a five-year study
Next Animation Studio
Hubble telescope finds most distant star ever seen
Astronomers have sighted the outermost star the in known universe. Icarus, or LS1, is 9 billion years from Earth. Hubble saw it because of gravitational lensing, where distant star light is bent and magnified via the gravity of a passing...
Intelligence Squared
Elizabeth Gilbert on failure and forgiveness
Elizabeth Gilbert on failure and forgiveness at IQ2.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lynn Marie Houston - 'Becoming Icarus'
Lynn Marie Houston holds a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University and an MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. A Fulbright scholar (Switzerland 1994-1998), she has also held writing residencies at the Vermont Studio...
Mythology & Fiction Explained
Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Collection of Roman Myths Everyone Must Read! - (Roman/Greek Mythology)
Mythology & Fiction Explained explores five tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Curated Video
New Jersey breweries fear aluminum and steel tariffs will have impact on business
Business analyst Parag Amin says President Donald Trump’s tariffs will eventually help increase U.S. steel production and stabilize costs – but the effects – could take a while.
Getty Images
Roger Brown's mosaic at 120 LaSalle Street Chicago
120 LaSalle Street, pan past Roger Brown's mosaic of the mythic Daedalus and Icarus to view median with foliage
Getty Images
The Icarus project sends a camera high into the stratosphere to take pictures of the Earth from near space.
The camera is enclosed in a flight box and attached to a helium weather balloon which lifts the camera to an altitude of approximately 35,000 meters above sea level. The camera is controlled by a small micro computer which takes pictures...
Bloomberg
'Icarus' Producers Talk Winning Best Documentary Feature | Oscars 2018
'Icarus' producers Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan discuss winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Bloomberg
Kit Juckes: U.S. Dollar in 'Geriatric' Upward Cycle
Dec.06 -- Kit Juckes, global strategist at Societe Generale, examines the strength of the U.S. dollar and the factors that will help push the currency higher. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Bloomberg
Markets Winners and Losers: A Look Back at 2016
Dec.30 -- Bloomberg's Vincent Cignarella reports on the performance of the markets in 2016. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Icarus
This animation features the story of Greek mythology called Icarus, with an analysis of why Icarus did not heed his father's warnings about flying too close to the sun. They lead to deeper questions of parental advisements and...