Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: NASA

  • We can do better!

    We all campaign for our own survival and decency. Our term limits are long, and the road is hard. It was still dark when I got to the park. A guy with backpack barely crossed the street. That early! Then it hit me: the street is his home. He never got out of any house. So…

  • Machine and Man

    The Curiosity Rover landed intact. Mission Control jumped up and down. Machine and Man. One giant step. Let’s hug, even the meanest-looking of guys. From Moon to Mars (better known as a candy bar), machine as modern-day Columbus. Something in the way she moves. Knowledge gap will be filled in the days ahead, on-screen and online. Ask…

  • Empty space

    Void. Vacuum. Unfilled and unoccupied space. Plenty of them, within and without. So we fear its vastness. We try to fill it up with stuff. In the process, making ourselves mini-gods. Co-creators of space-filling. Bed, bath and beyond. Then give them away to Goodwill to make room for more empty space. Everyone got problems with fitting…

  • Twice the romance

    For almost a century, we have gotten used to Hollywood‘s sunset scenes of the Pacific (they could even make Skid Row desirable). Now, fiction is trumped by recent discovery of a two-sun planet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/215013/20110916/planet-two-suns-star-wars-kepler-16-b-tatooine-seti.htm Sunset scenes will need to be re-cut. Twice the work. But also, twice the romance. As evolving species, we will adapt,…

  • Mars or marble

    Have you submitted your name to be shuttled up to Mars?  Space and sea travel or your names on Mars and not marble. This is to show our preference for progress over permanence  – technology over religion. While it’s good to sit on one of the benches with our parent’s names “in memory of…”, it’s…

  • Long tail

    2,000 cars (Nano, by Tata) and $20 per gallon of gas? HP printer and ink model. Thin client, thick server. I got it, I got it! In the same vein, they should subsidize “Blu-ray” disc player, that way, more of us (late adopters) will get onboard quicker. Mid-summer! Beach time. But not innocence time. I…