that. We have this relentless achievement culture, which I think has only gotten worse with time in our schools. So there's a sense that if you make a mistake, you're kicked off the totem pole . Everything's got to be perfect. Every flaw is going to be held against you, and it's going to affect your future dramatically. So it's all happening under the guise of anxiety about thefuture, anxiety about what kind of lives they're going to lead, what kind of success is going to be possible for them, where they're going to be able to get in the kind of schools that they want to
doing frame-by-frame analysis, but in the end, you're just trying to work backward and figure out what an artist decided to draw. pole or something like that.
yet history is filled with accounts of the impossible made possible through human endeavor, the kind of human endeavor that took polar explorers to the South Pole at the start of the last century, and the kind of human endeavor that's going to take a new wave of explorersto Mars in the middle part of this century.
Whenever I look back at exploration stories like those stories from 100 years ago, when people were racing to the South Pole , they're presented with the lead characters Shackleton and Scott, Amundsen, like it was some kind of individual herostory, but it wasn't.
And so Ellery was imprisoned by him and would have been killed too if not for a very green FBI agent who was low man on the totem pole in the investigation.But he played a hunch and serendipitously rescued her from the closet.
And, again, I don't want to beat this to death, here's another graph. Pole dancing, if you'd like.
and 100y year bond issues okay and fixed income there are two ways to increase Pole so I one time asked him about his experience managing money in the Bahamas
And then we all got in a DC-6, we meaning the four people I was traveling with plus an all women's expedition that were heading to the South Pole , a Japanese team that was heading to the South Pole , and one Norwegian.And the rest of us, the four of us, were heading out to the Weddell Sea, the opposite direction to see if there were
And I thought this must be a pretty old idea, but when I was doing the research for the book, I found out that really the idea of Santa being at the North Pole came from this cartoon from Harper's from the 1860s which shows him with his helpers and his workshop up there.So during the 1860s particularly, and 1870s, and into the 1880s, you get this intense polar fever that
Veer uh we totally know Dogfish if you send us some some bottles of this we'll take a picture of us on the actual South Pole drinking it he's like we got this awesome reverse osmosis machine it turns icebergs into awesome water we'll sendyou that I was like all right I got my ingredient and uh from from from Antarctica so then we did worked out the
the man is very embarrassed so he decides he's got to divert his glance and he's standing by the boy holding the pole so he looks down at the boy who's sitting okay so the boy is now feeling veryuncomfortable because the purple haired man is now close to him there is a height discrepancy
melts and it just gets too dangerous and uh we'd been given the deadline of the 1 of may we were been picked up at the pole by helicopter uh and the Russian Pilots had said look if you're not there by the 1st of May we will fly out alongyour route and and up first May came we were just over two-thirds of the way there we hadn't got there we R out of
Umm, but let's assume that he did do it the standard way: Reindeer from rooftop to rooftop, umm, you know, steaming out of the North Pole , landing on a roof, going down the chimney, looking around, dropping off the presents, going back up the chimney and going on tothe next house. Umm, say he has to visit 200 million homes.
course, is wireless technology, because wireless networks are now coming to parts of the world that would never have seen connectivity if it was dependent on running fixed-line networks with telephone poles and fiberoptic and copper cables.So five billion people will be connected, at the very least, through mobile phone technology which will be for many of them the only way
of it is induced by coal and what ends up happening because of the magnetic structure of the Polar you know the poles is that it floats up towards the poles and so the most remote areas we have the big fish that we like tuna andother things like that the the the Mercury drops right there and so more the more remote the ocean area the more
call the Permian period of Earth history. And this was the time where there was the supercontinent, Pangea. All of the land was gathered together as this one enormous land mass stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole . And it was a land mass that was ruled by a lot of early relatives and cousins and ancestors of us distant mammal ancestors. But then, in what is now Siberia, these enormous volcanoes started to erupt about 250 million years ago. And these are not volcanoes like those that we know today. It's hard to even envision what these were like.
the pole and then he could see by looking very carefully how the whole
the pole position, the rings to everyone that are participating of the Indy 500.
a pole , or just growing towards a host tree to twine around, we are inclined to thinking of the vine
tent pole in the middle and then some kind of tone that I want at the end and and then everything else is
South Pole . And I wrote about him because I was so inspired by him.
the pole , and it's time to hibernate. You might wonder why does Santa hibernate?
telephone pole wires and stuff like that well few obstacles on that one and last but not least we were
rout this is incidentally a very different North Pole I if any you've seen Jeremy Clarkson driving to the North Pole on Top Gear um I'll explain that in a minute but it was it was nowhere near the proper Northport um and uh yeah I say been third person who have done this now done it since me
cool? Umm, that's one of the reasons he's at the North Pole , obviously -- Gregory: -- is that it's pretty simple. You just kinda open the window, umm, let everything cool down and -- and that just keeps it at the right temperature.
Its poles can shift or even completely reverse.
The Poles cracked Enigma before the war.
The Poles also told the Germans in interrogations that they'd cracked Enigma, and Enigma was compromised, and the Germans didn't listen.
The polemics don't tend to-- I'm not even talking about in a box office way.
Stripper poles for all.
Not polemical, just open to wherever the story takes you.
the poles in the ground and a little concrete around it is the size of Manhattan. Which is 38 square kilometers. And to, but I'll show you a map of this in a little bit.
Trekking poles aren't compatible with an umbrella.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions true of the North Pole ice sheet. It's grown, it's contracted, expanded, contracted in many pulses, it's like a roller coaster just as small changes in the orbit of the Earth occur. About 50,000
flow from one pole of the battery to the negative to to the other pole of the battery.
But a magnetic pole reversal won’t just happen overnight— mathematical models suggest it could take thousands of years.
She pulls out her pole buoy.
There's an Italian pole vaulter that I'm interested in his career after this Olympic Games.
the point of showing you that video and explaining this is it's not really about arriving at the South Pole , and just to tell you why I think that's the case. I needed to raise 150,000 Euro to do the event, and I had all sorts of ideas on how I might get the sponsorship, or get a documentary made,
and the southern magnetic pole .
and South Pole . He's a pretty persistent, insane man.
This is the south pole and the north pole .
compared to the South Pole of the Earth.
I'm a pole dancer.
all vying the North Pole , the central Arctic Ocean, and thinking it is theirs.
The stage got a pole in front of it.
The South Pole is-- this is 90 degrees south right here.
reached the South Pole , we did our expedition.
It has a north pole and a south pole , so electron actually works like a magnet.
the totem pole . So what happened?