But really what's important is being able to model the world. Jeanette Wing talks about it as computational thinking.And I think there's a mix between different types of thinking.
Today, the Talks at Google series is featuring author Marcy Madden and her wife, Jeanette . Scottie Jeanette Madden. And Marcy recently wrote a book called "Just Because My Husband Is a Woman," and it's receiving five star ratings on Amazon.
I said, well, why haven't I heard of this? What is the Jeanette ? And sometimes it takes asking just an obvious question like that to begin to bore into a story.
and give you some of the background about what the expedition was about. The men of the Jeanette that survived, they returned home as great heroes. They were household names.
One place though where it is quite well known is this place. This is the Jeanette Monument at the Naval Academy in Annapolis where George DeLong and his men are celebrated as part of the Pantheon of great Navy explorer heroes.
I could give them James Baldwin. I could give them Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson. But I couldn't give them a world that did not want to destroy them.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. So that's the story of the Jeanette as they work their way, really, towards this delta, a place that is said to be about the size of three Florida
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. So that is the story of the Jeanette .
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. So that's the story of the Jeanette .
So "Well of Loneliness" doesn't end well. "Orange is not the only Fruit" gave me a love of Jeanette Winterson, and gave me a language and a narrative of how to do dating from 15 to 22, that meant most of my adolescent relationships were really intense and full of very, very good constructed sentences, but not a lot of fun.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. And he wrote beautifully about the search for the Jeanette that summer of 1881.
I guess it's your tax dollars at work. OK, so the Voyage of the Jeanette was really based on trying to prove or disprove an old, old idea, an old theory that goes back as far as the Greeks and the Vikings but really came to be crystallized in this map, a 1592 Mercator map which showed very clearly
The monument to Petermann in Gotha. But this begins to show a little of the theories on which the Jeanette expedition was based and Petermann's idea. We were beginning to learn that the Gulf Stream was a powerful current that brought a lot of heat from the tropics north through the Atlantic Ocean
He wanted to be the first to do it, and to do it for his country, and for his Navy, and for science. Bennett purchased this vessel, renamed it the Jeanette after his sister Jeanette Bennett. And DeLong sailed it around the Horn from France to San Francisco in 1878.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. They wanted to get some tidings of what had happened to the Jeanette because it had been gone for two years.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. It's a monument that was built in the 1880s to the Jeanette .
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. Now, we know exactly where the Jeanette sank.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. My editor wants us to do a companion book that would be the Jeanette Cookbook, like permitted walrus
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. What's extraordinary about Nansen is he tried to duplicate the Voyage of the Jeanette
Like I said, I've known Marcy and Scottie for over 20 years, and it's a great privilege and pleasure to bring them to the Talks at Google series. And so I'd like to welcome first up, Scottie Jeanette Madden. Thank you, Monica.
So he founded an official US Naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington DeLong. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeanette set sail from San Francisco. They faced everything from snow blindness, polar bears, ferocious storms, frosted labyrinths, madness, and starvation.
I was in Seattle yesterday, but I'm moving about the country. And I always ask people when I first begin to talk about the Voyage of the Jeanette , barring those of you who maybe already read the book, how many of you had heard of the Voyage of the Jeanette prior to this?
And I always ask people when I first begin to talk about the Voyage of the Jeanette , barring those of you who maybe already read the book, how many of you had heard of the Voyage of the Jeanette prior to this? Big goose egg. Yup.
He hired this guy to lead the expedition. This is George Washington DeLong, the commander of the Jeanette , a graduate of the Naval Academy, someone who had been to Greenland, had devoted the rest of his life to trying to figure out this planetary enigma.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. Fridtjof Nansen from Norway, he found out that some relics of the Jeanette had washed up on shore in Greenland about five years after the Jeanette
Today, the Talks at Google series is featuring author Marcy Madden and her wife, Jeanette . Scottie Jeanette Madden. And Marcy recently wrote a book called "Just Because My Husband Is a Woman,"
When I first heard about this while I was on an assignment with "National Geographic" to write about another Arctic explorer in Oslo, the great scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen. I saw in the museum there in Oslo all these references, continuing references to the Jeanette expedition, the famous American voyage from the Gilded Age.
I traveled all over Siberia, and the high Arctic, and the Bering Strait, and all over America in pursuit of it. I had of ball doing this story, and I'm going to today talk with you a little bit about some of my travels in pursuit of the Jeanette story and give you some of the background about what the expedition was about.
celebrated as part of the Pantheon of great Navy explorer heroes. And when I was on the book tour, a former midshipman came up to me at some point and said, yeah, the Jeanette Memorial. That's something that they used to always require us, almost like a hazing ritual, at midnight to go and count the number of icicles on the monument
And I think that's why the story is so brilliant, in that it sort of sets the stage for all the stories But if there's a gay ghetto, I mean, Baldwin is there, Thomas Mann is there, Henry James is there, Virginia Woolf is there, Jeanette Winterson is there.