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How Much Water Is There On Earth? Magellan Would Be Shocked
Posted by National Public Radio: Robert Krulwich on June 23rd, 2011
National Public Radio: Water feels good when we're thirsty, cools us when we're hot, looks great in a pond, a lake, a cloud. Because we ourselves are two-thirds water, we like the stuff, we're drawn to it. We search the universe looking for signs of water and when we look back at our planet, we are small and pale, yes, but we're dazzlingly blue.
Benjamin Arthur
It's good to be wet. Compared to our neighbors "” Mars, Venus, the dust-dry Moon "” we look the wettest. More than two thirds of our surface is ocean. Another...
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Water Rushing Through Cities, The Gentle Version
Posted by National Public Radio: Robert Krulwich on March 22nd, 2011
National Public Radio: Alexey Titarenko/Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York Untitled, (Crowd 1), 1992 Henry David Thoreau was looking into a pond one day "” it was his local pond in Walden, Massachusetts and as he looked, a fish, a pickerel, slid into view. That fish was so comfortable, so at ease in the water, Thoreau wrote in his diary that its muscles, its fins its scales were almost water in a different form, "animalized water," he called it. And 150 years later, the great science writer Loren Eiseley said the same...