Kansas is one. They could have redrawn those lines. New Hampshire, um again, Republican-controlled. Nebraska, another Republican-controlled state that could have redrawn their lines. So, not every state went along.
And so I decided not to take my professional contract and move to the US, visited five universities as per NCAA rules, ended up being at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in the middle of America. And the main reason why I ended up there is it was a great football team, great people, but also they were building a new performing art
had not been done before and that was going to be uh where nebula uh at the center of uh humankind's
funded by federal money and corporate money and was the guy who managed to go out and raise the money for a pretty nebulous Mission I mean it was a good organization it did good work but it was a lot of that talking of the last 10 decade of like convincing people that just invest in this and it's going to pay great dividends culturally and
of science fiction and fantasy, including Quantico, Blood Music, the Forge of God, and Darwin's Radio. The recipient of two Hugo awards and five Nebula awards, Bear's books cover topics as diverse as galactic conflict, artificial universes, networked intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. In addition to being a prolific writer, Bear has also served on political and scientific action committees, advising Microsoft, the U.S. Army, the CIA, Sandia National Laboratories,
i would just go out and do that stuff and you can see my husband and i in the tent and i would i'm carrying a little nebulizer in that picture so we just had a portable device to do treatments in the in the tent or likewise i went to the beach one time with my friend but i happened to be on iv antibiotics and i had to rather than not
Because often your soul already told you and everything else is just a negotiation with your fear. this nebulous fear.
I was looking at it one evening when I was about 14, and I nudged my telescope, and I got this view. The nebula's off to the bottom of the screen here. And there's this rather nice little star cluster.
But you see here, one other thing to notice is that this is a nebulosity. This nebulosity is not stars. It's actually made of gas.
You can see green, yellow, red, and blue. A nebula is what happens when a star like our sun dies. It lets out its remaining energy and expands, making lots of pretty pieces that one day can become planets.
Newly freed black men set up tonsorial palaces in prairie towns and learned to speak Norwegian to their customers. Farmers, some of them real Americans, pulled up stakes in Michigan and Nebraska and Iowa to try their luck behind a plow in the new Northwest. 'Wrong side up,' the Indians said, shaking their heads at the white men intent upon turning under perfectly good prairie grass. I could begin this story of an unlikely place
So the question is recognizing that our expectations of what we can and should be doing, and it should actually be driven, instead of these nebulous notions of what is possible, to actually what matters to you. So that's one side of it.
I did spend ages with a small telescope looking at something called the Orion nebula. And the Orion nebula is our nearest stellar nursery to the Sun. So it's a place rather like the nebula in which the Sun would've formed about five billion years ago.
The first stars and the nucleus after about 200 million years. Stars explode and produce nebula. And then the solar system and the Earth form, something like nine billion years after the Big Bang.
It takes nothing for me to get rolling. Sometimes we feel like nebulous and strange, Santos.
Also oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus in our body are not from the earth. They came from nebula where these elements were created and being recycled. For example, I breathe the same air that Einstein breathed in and exhaled. We have continuously maintained intellectual beings, therefore, we are very special. If we own every single part of the universe, we should live out to the best.
Colorado and Nebraska are two of the ones that are growing very quickly.
It's Nebraska. It's crazy.
And that's Nebraska, folks.
We required the Nebraska accent of all of our national male anchors for news, not the women and not the local anchors, but the national male anchors.
This was in Nebraska.
So this is a nebulous statement, because you don't really know what it means.
plant in Nebraska along the Missouri River in 2011 everywhere it's gray that's water that's not good you're not supposed to have electricity and water
This is my nebulizer.
Is it something so nebulous, so vague, like only a select few can have access to?
like the Orion Nebula, in the center of which you can see lots of newly-formed, or in some cases still-forming, stars.
I don't know what that means really, but I think it's like a jewel in the sky. The Ring Nebula is in the constellation of Lyra. Lyra is also where the brightest star in the sky is.
This star is called Vega. The Ring Nebula is a little ways away from Vega over here. My dad says that he doesn't think the Ring Nebula is too far away.
I see it like this. The Ring Nebula was discovered a long time ago by someone in France. This picture of the nebula is beautiful.
The Ring Nebula was discovered a long time ago by someone in France. This picture of the nebula is beautiful. It looks like a precious blue gem in the middle of some red, orangey stuff that looks like fire.
And so what the role of the ambassadors is, is to sort of connect that kind of information, to tell him, yes, some nebulae are when a star dies. But other nebulae are when stars are being born. And so anyway, that was the whole start of our WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors outreach program.
from the high in Nebraska, a little bit to the west in South Dakota, a touch of Wyoming, and then straight down
I grew up in Nebraska.
Back in Nebraska in the '80s, there was like five Asian people in the state.
won both the Nebula award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
There is some light nebbiolo.
all kind of nebulous and through word of mouth.
stuff that's more nebulous and further out, because it just doesn't feel as real, and you're trying to be responsible and analytical about this stuff.
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And also through Nebraska in 1988, the whole western side of Nebraska, you could not pick up an NPR station.
It's a bit nebulous to people in terms of what exactly genetic testing is.
Great Midwestern Humanities initiative one of these things funded with by corporations in the federal government with a very nebulous mission statement and it's sort of going into the ditch um partly because of Z's own ignorance about how to run anything and also because of the economy I began to write
center of the Crab Nebula.
So Hugos and Nebulas, very prestigious awards. But a--a special honor to get it for his first novel. He is also a Theodore Sturgeon award-winning science fiction author and fantasy writer
said non nebala did you lose the contract did they say it was okay that you could just start up again once the
So that would be my very nebulous advice.
kind of keep referring to nebulous sort of forces but um you know looking at you know economic inequality making it
are subscribing to platforms like Nebula or Dropout which are subscription video platforms that are kind of like Netflix
It may be kind of nebulous.
sky. Yes, we see the same stars we've always seen. You can see the bright nebulae, the gas there from which new stars will form. And if you know a little bit more, you know that some of those dark patches are places where there's dust, grains of carbon and silicon