There is a high uncertainty about the toxicity of short-chain PFASs, especially regarding long-term effects (see "Overview of concerns of short-chain PFAAs").
This sudden perception of Earth as a delicate, intricate system is so common among astronauts that the writer Frank White coined a term for it: the overview effect.
Yasir Husain's Overview Effect Karachi was barbed wire, wrapped in LED lights and hung upon the facade of Frere Hall – a gesture to the private enclosure of the city's properties with razor wire.
I was recently reading about how the first astronauts felt when they viewed Earth from space — a sense of the fragility and importance of the planet, a kind of radical humility that has been termed the "overview effect".
There's a wonderful book called The Overview Effect, which has interviews with all the people who've been to space and [tells of] their experiences, and how it's changed them.
Their accounts are reminiscent of the "overview effect" described by astronauts who have glimpsed the earth from a great distance, an experience that some of them say permanently altered their priorities.
Mr. Lindbergh talked with Dr. Byron Lichtenberg, a former astronaut and a co-founder of the prize, about the "overview effect" astronauts describe in seeing the world all at once, that "it changes them".
I chatted with Holmes about the "overview effect," where people, when presented with a view of earth from afar, are much more likely to empathize with others and see the pettiness of so-called major issues in the face of viewing our little planet.
It's called "The Overview Effect".
