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Recommended Reading: Chris Hadfield's view from space, the coming robot barista invasion and more
Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short reviews of books dealing with the subject of technology that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read. Chris Hadfield on the view from above and his fear of heights by Charlie Gillis, Macleans Back on Earth after his five-month stay on the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has written a book and sat down for this wide-ranging interview (and appropriately adventurous cover shoot) with Macleans in advance of its publication. In it, Hadfield discusses the life of a retired astronaut, his affinity for Russia, his own plans for the future and his somewhat surprising fear of heights. For more, see the lengthy excerpt from Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth that Macleans has also published, in which he recounts a crisis that arose just two days before he was set to leave the ISS.
Alt-week 6.15.13: Chris Hadfield's retirement, invisibility cloaks and dino-bird feathers
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. What goes up must eventually come down, and shortly after landing on Terra Firma from his last of three ISS missions, Chris Hadfield has resigned from the Canadian Space Agency. That leaves us to wax poetic on his legacy of space education and other oddities, while we also make goldfish disappear and admire dinosaur plumage. Welcome to alt-week.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's iPad in space
Just ask Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and he will tell you that the iPad is just as useful in space as it is at home. Hadfield is currently on the International Space Station and putting his iPad to good use. As shown by Hadfield in a recent tweet, his iPad is a teleprompter tool that he uses along with a camera to film reports for those of us on terra firma. According to the Canadian Space Agency, Hadfield uses his iPad for entertainment and has filled it with thousands of songs. His favorite track? "Take it From Day to Day" by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers. [Via MacStories]
