Every week I look desperately for new teaching topics. When I first arrived in Italy, I had a subscription for Newsweek, time magazine and the Economist. I would speed read, scanning for interesting topics, than I would disregard the ones about : politics, religion, sex scandals, violence…
Life is infinitely easier now with the internet, and thank god for national geographic!
Did you know that above our heads, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, there’s a space station with a crew of six people living and working on it. solar arrays provide power to the station, and make it the next brightest object in the night sky after the moon, You don’t even need a telescope to see it zoom over your house.
The astronaut Scott Kelly and the Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to earth this Thursday, after 340 days and more than 5,000 trips around the earth and nearly 200 gallons of drinking water made from recycled sweat and urin (and we are most definitely going to go into details about this fact in our lesson!). Scott, apart from his other insignificant duties as the international space station manager, took some amazing photos and posted them on twitter and a devoted band of mapping experts (geotaggers), helpfully noted where Kelly snapped his pics.
Here are some amazing photos, that were taken by Scott Kelly, who, by the way, returned 5cm. taller!:
