Weightlessness

Bringer of Jollity

Attaboy, Clarence

TED talk by Mae

Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinkers.




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Greeks said

"The Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us." (from Karl Paulnack of Boston Conservatory)

"Music fathoms the sky."

Charles Baudelaire

This book

"In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it." 

http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything-Illustrated/dp/0307885151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353789983&sr=8-1&keywords=a+brief+history+of+nearly+everything

Claude Debussy

Considered one of his middle works, Debussy wrote his famous Children's Corner Suite in 1908 for his beloved daughter, Claude-Emma, whom he nicknamed Chouchou. Debussy was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions (Politoske, Daniel T.; Martin Werner (1988). Music, Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall. p. 419. ISBN 0-13-607616-5.).

Occasional absences of tonality are covered by glittering arpeggios throughout the work. Dark matter and stars? Perhaps more easily comparable to the feeling of "longs days and short weeks"...

I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum -
II. Jimbo´s Lullaby -
III. Serenade for the Doll -
IV. The Snow is Dancing -
V. The Little Shepherd -
VI. Golliwog´s Cakewalk -

performed by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Exomoons

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