Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans

This is actually about discovering new things that pop up on the web.

End of the Heroic Age There are different views about when the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration came to an end.

This student made a web browser for parrots lets parrots surf the Net and talk to other parrots.

After exploring the underground of Paris, I decided to climb up, and I climbed a Gothic monument that's right in the middle of Paris.

After the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization.

Or so we thought. And so in our initial explorations, we were totally focused on exploring the boundary of creation, looking at the volcanic features running along that entire 42,000 miles.

The ocean contains 97 of the Earth's water, and oceanographers have stated that only 5 of the World Ocean has been explored.

After exploring recently abandoned buildings, I felt that everything could fall into ruins very fast your home, your office, a shopping mall, a church any man made structures around you.

Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3 D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping covered walls.

They must navigate markets daily, making micro decisions, dozens and dozens, to move their way through society, and yet if a single catastrophic health problem impacts their family, they could be put back into poverty, sometimes for generations.

Fifty years ago, when I began exploring the ocean, no one not Jacques Perrin, not Jacques Cousteau or Rachel Carson imagined that we could do anything to harm the ocean by what we put into it or by what we took out of it.

So, I've been talking to a lot of NASA JPL scientists at JPL they are famous for the Mars rovers and the scientists, geologists always tell me that the real interesting science, the science rich sites, are always at the cliffs.

As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and necessary move away from oil. Toward ... what?